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Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

TheTooth — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:37:28 EDT

Less tire contact with the road! Sweet... so now I'll be more efficient while I slide into that family of six!

TheTooth

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:51:00 EDT

@POLAЯ SAYS EVEЯYONE HEЯE: Thank you kind sir...! I felt I could blend Star Trek with a hat-tip to Murilee for all the junkyard, PCH, and DOTS joy he has brought us.

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

deckard97 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:15:23 EDT

It looks like a gay fashion statement.

deckard97

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POLAЯ — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:04:09 EDT

@charles_barrett: Charles, you are my Captain Kirk!

POLAЯ

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

darex — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:12:04 EDT

Given the pedestrian-friendly directives in Europe, I don't think this is very compliant with those. In fact, I think it's as diametrically opposed to them as you can get.

How wide is the distance between the two front wheels?

I can see bad drivers breaking the axles on these in parking lots, wrapping around lampposts, etc...

The burlap steering wheel will get filthy in one week, as well as torn off.

I think we need to wait for a Version 2, before production can occur.

darex

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

karnak — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:04:05 EDT

This thing is kick-ass. It has many advantages going for it over the Prius and Volt. Three wheel trikes, with mono rear wheel work very well.

I told them they could have my $500 deposit as soon as they sold it in Texas, with a diesel-'lectric hybrid PP, versus the backward thinking gas-electric that is only for sale in CA.

karnak

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

MeDuh — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:24:18 EDT

actually the track is decieving, if you imagine it as the same width as most cars it could be cramped, but it's a whole lot wider, there's oodles of space.

MeDuh

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

way_down_east — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:34:04 EDT

Point. Not poing. Poing is the sound your head makes bouncing off the side window when you slam the door.

way_down_east

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

way_down_east — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:31:47 EDT

"Less moving parts"? Does PR boy mean "fewer"? What a load of marketing baloney. Who would want to be t-boned in that sucker - it looks like a death trap.

Less ground contact is a good thing? Maybe from a rolling resistance standpoing - but when one is interested in turning or stopping, I would like a bit more than that thing has.

What a pathetic excuse for transportation, unless you are moving up from a moped.

way_down_east

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:27:11 EDT

@charles_barrett:
After graduating from the Starfleet Academy, Murilee Martin's great, great, great-to-the-nth grandson contributed to a hyperblog, "Jaloptrek", and founded a very popular and entertaining series he called DOTGO (Down On The Geosynchronous Orbit), where he would post holos of antique satellites, orbital platforms, and other 'craft from centuries past. It became so popular, he got holos from other hyperbloggers, of similar detritus found within their own planetary systems...

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

instant_karma — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:57:50 EDT

So where do I mount my wing and coffee can muffler?

instant_karma

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:55:06 EDT

A role in Star Trek... hmm, let's see...
A few hundred years from now, the great, great, great-to-the-nth grandson of Murilee Martin is a cadet at the Starfleet Academy, Alameda campus, along with his pal Jimmy Kirk.

One weekend the two transport to a pick-a-part wrecking yard in the east bay area. There, off to one corner, is an antique Aptera Type 1 up on blocks, waiting to be disintegrated. It's just begging to become someone's project car, so the boy buy it for a few hunded credits and arrange to have it transported to the Martin family ancestral Alameda bungalow...

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

GiltProto — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:06:33 EDT

Why do I get the feeling the Chris dude in the video is never going to fit in the thing?

Personally I'd like the tadpole motif paint option on mine. Actually a photoshop contest for this car would be fun, featuring paint themes or other physical modifications. Let's go Aptera!

GiltProto

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

Eric Merrill — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:00:01 EDT

I, for one, have complete love and faith in this thing. With as much aerodynamic drag as the windshield wipers on my car, I can't see why anyone doesn't love it. It actually makes sense.

Eric Merrill

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

smokeydog001 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:09:42 EDT

I immediately reach for the Vaseline when I hear the word "responsible!"

smokeydog001

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

MeDuh — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:09:17 EDT

@SundaySunday: Would have looked way better than the funny gizmos they had. the suspension was all wrong and blew the whole illusion that they were supposed to be floating on air.

MeDuh

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MeDuh — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:25:46 EDT

The first installment of "Better know an aptera type 1"

/the fightn' first!

MeDuh

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

morrisseyscoot — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:02:46 EDT

I like it. I could see myself driving one. The styling is like Cessna meets Karmann Ghia meets Piaggio Mp3 meets Citroen DS. Yeah ok sign me up. I could see this being the next Prius and making the Chevy Volt seem like a real late contender.

morrisseyscoot

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

Bumblebee — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:11:26 EDT

So that's how you market an alternative vehicle without outrageous claims.

Bumblebee

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

smokyburnout — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:11:55 EDT

i have more trouble believing they will sell this for under $30k than believing the Volt will sell for under $40K....

although, supposedly it'll weigh around 1500 pounds, so it could be fun with 'Busa power and a real rear tire...

smokyburnout

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Mysterious Utility Bento — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:24:33 EDT

Scotty, you have the con! Spock, Bones, Guy in red shirt whose gonna die in the next ten minutes....You're with me in the giant sperm!

Mysterious Utility Bento

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

beercheck — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:35:37 EDT

@Flat4: Never, ever, run out of beercash.

beercheck

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

.: R32-PΩWER ™ — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:20:53 EDT

What you use when you run out of beercash@beercheck:

.: R32-PΩWER ™

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

beercheck — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:10:19 EDT

beercheck

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graverobber- It says Loud Pipes Save Lives — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:02:24 EDT

@iamverb: It'd be funny if the tail wiggled back and forth while you drove it. Well, funny until you passed that elementary school got all those dirty looks from the moms.

graverobber- It says Loud Pipes Save Lives

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

verbing weirds — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:51:20 EDT

I'd drive it. Cars have looked phallic for a long time; why not a sperm?

verbing weirds

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

Malk572 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:45:22 EDT

you just gotta love the + and - pedals..

Malk572

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

jarque — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:34:51 EDT

@kleinlowe: My brother is a cereal hybrid. He runs on Coco Puffs and Pop Tarts.

jarque

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

Race7117 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:33:12 EDT

"......like being starring....." ? I guess that new dream team is really working out. (It's just too easy to rip on the car itself....)

Race7117

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

.: R32-PΩWER ™ — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:27:15 EDT

@CharlzR: COTD

.: R32-PΩWER ™

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kleinlowe — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:27:08 EDT

@SLRStarless: I would! I love the way this car looks. It looks like you're chaffeuring No.6 across the Village. Naturally I would prefer a little more oomph, but upgrading a serial-hybrid drivetrain's gotta be pretty easy. Can we say forklift motors? Oh yeah.

kleinlowe

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Braff is Thad Longlove — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:26:43 EDT

@CharlzR:
Who Wants Ju Ju Bees Damnit?

Braff is Thad Longlove

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

CharlzR — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:17:49 EDT

WWJJBD? What would Jar Jar Binks Drive?

CharlzR

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

jarque — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:15:58 EDT

I'm thinking it's modeled after some kind of burrowing marsupial

jarque

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

Braff is Thad Longlove — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:12:39 EDT

It looks like a giant, mutant Sony AIBO

Braff is Thad Longlove

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SundaySunday — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:11:57 EDT

I'm still disappointed. When I read that the Aptera was appearing in a movie, I thought they were finally remaking Woody Allen's Sleeper.

SundaySunday

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ranwhenparked — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:11:24 EDT

I actually kind of like this thing, aside from the sperm tail jutting off the back. It still looks better than a Prius though.

ranwhenparked

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Dr.Danger, Hasta la victoria siempre! — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:08:36 EDT

Future Concept of anything = Random guess that usually is waaaaaay off base.

Do we ever learn from the past?

Would the robot overlords allow that?

Maybe if you eat all of your capsule pill meals.

Dr.Danger, Hasta la victoria siempre!

Aptera Type 1 Makes Movie Debut - Will Be Old Pro For Star Trek

SLR_BlowerMania — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:07:20 EDT

Okay, who really wants to drive this? It looks like a sperm with wheels. Good God Man.

SLR_BlowerMania