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And now i know what exactly an Ariel Atom is

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>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^EvilDeathBee:
God the Cayenne's an ugly son of a bitch. The people that drive them obviously have more money than taste.

Yep, ugly ass car that is mediocre at everything. I once worked out that for the price of a top of the range cayenne, you could buy a decent spec BMW 5 series and a land rover defender. Hell you'd nearly have enough left over for an Ariel Atom. All of which kick the Cayennes ass.


If you wanna go offroad you get the defender, the BMW 5 is just sad.

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

God the Cayenne's an ugly son of a bitch. The people that drive them obviously have more money than taste.


Yep, ugly ass car that is mediocre at everything. I once worked out that for the price of a top of the range cayenne, you could buy a decent spec BMW 5 series and a land rover defender. Hell you'd nearly have enough left over for an Ariel Atom. All of which kick the Cayennes ass.

pffff... so basically it's an ugly version of an ariel atom v8 plus a windshield. meh.

The Ariel Atom was also used by Wrightspeed to prototype the electric running gear for a entirely new production vehicle which Wrightspeed are raising funds to build. The Atom-based prototype, called the X1, also has incredible acceleration, reaching 60 mph in 3 seconds. Because the X1 is electric, it has the equivalent fuel consumption of 170 mpg.

umm, that's electric? that looks like the Ariel Atom to me. ( http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=9990 )

i suppose they could have converted it, seeing as how the entire muffler system seems to be missing from the rear end, compared to the Atom2, but that still isn't fair if you consider that the Atom2 is a mere ~1000lbs. power to weight ratio.

as for the whole electric vs petrol arguement, it's easy. petrol is dirty. electric is clean, however the methods of producing electricity en masse are largely unclean. water engines have already been designed and implemented, but our oil-obsessed government wouldn't want to cut back on their cash cow. biodiesel engines are also designed and implemented, but you don't see many of those either, do you?
the use of fossil fuels and their associated emissions are really killing things, but the richies don't wanna give up their H3's and Escalades... not to mention that our war machines use an insane percentage of the oil and refined petrol brought into this country.

and until we get a better grasp on fusion/fission nuclear power is NOT the solution, but merely a transitional source. if three-mile or chernobyl taught anyone anything at all...