It's funny how many times this set of pics has been resurected via the web
with similar tales of how you will be able to buy it in China for some
ridiculously low price - Not happening.
I saw the car in an industry
magazine a few years ago. It was built as a one-off experiment to showcase the
fuel economy prowess/technology of VW. Seems like the President of the
company then drove it across Europe or across Germany to a specific
destination and the mileage figures were then displayed at a show or something
like that. It was an attempt to get something like 1,000 km out of a liter of
fuel.
Has nothing to do with China and it cost WAY more than $600 to build,
let alone sell. Wish I could find more about the real details, but the web is
full of all the B.S. stories about buying them in China. This inevitably
brings out all the folks who then use it to justify their belief that the
government is buying and killing such technologies in order to keep the big
oil companies rolling in our money...
Does look a bit like a modern
Messerschmidt though, doesn't it?
David Booker
http://quasi-superspooge.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-single-seat-vw.html
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