<![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower! - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower! - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Why wouldn't you just ride the damn horse?!?!

crewcutkid

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Actually I think they stole the idea from the Treadmill Bike:

[www.bikeforest.com]

Make sure to check out the wacky videos on this link: [www.bikeforest.com]

BoomhauerTX

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> I would rather have a child-powered version. Could it convert wiggling and whining into electricity?

"Are we there yet?"

JONNRG

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @MazdaEric: Tho you could use a donkey instead.

joneez

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @MazdaEric: Just a step away from a road going donkey...er horse show!

joneez

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> The emissions system is just a big ol cork.

You'll want to get one before all your neigh bors.

mytdawg

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @FreeMan:

Only the Belgian market edition.

Stoatmaster

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> If you crack a head can you still fix it with JB Weld?

Won't all that glass act like a greenhouse and cook the horse? It'll certainly warm the emissions to the point of driving the occupants out.

FЯeeMan is slowly cЯawling out of the new commenting system

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Another drawback is this:

Anyone who's worked with horses knows there's a certain percentage of them that do not like being loaded into echo-y, confined spaces (i.e., horse trailers).

These Naturautos don't look much different...and looking like nadir autos of horse-driven transport.

SeanKHotay

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Travelling at the speeds likely to be available obviously appeals to the most committed of road safety lobbyists.

This must be designed by Ralph Neighder.

There's a car, taxi, van and bus, but no ambulance.

By ambulance, I mean mobile horsepital.

This is more than a prototype, you know. Before this, there was a test mule.

The Jalopnik special truck car version is due soon: El Palocamino

Stoatmaster

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Wow. The definitive Pony car. (Can't believe y'all let that one get away.)

My personal favourite is the Naturvan, just because all the van space is taken up with the horse.

That's not just gilding the stupid-lily, that's using platinum.

Stoatmaster

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> The official brand name for this system is Horse-Bred Synergy Drive.(TM)

danio3834

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @Elhigh: Wait! You are being way to logical on this one. Horse is just the power provider not the brains of the whole contraption.

Remember, the point of this hybrid is making the least efficient form of energy conversion.

OG_

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> The Naturmobile, now equipped with Dual-Stage Feed Bags.

POLAЯ

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They should just put strippers in this, like on The Voyeur Bus Opie & Anthony had in NYC years back.
[www.freedomforum.org]

Capt. Mazda Sisko

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @Elhigh: The stupidest of horses is more intelligent than the average human. That's why we call the dim ones "horses ass".

mytdawg

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @OG_: If you could train the horse to read a map, you'd be all set. Even a moderately dim horse is way smarter than the best DARPA challenger. They just have it built-in to them to not go foolishly wandering over the sides of cliffs.

Elhigh

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @tenbeers: Ramming speed!
@Novaload: Try the veal!
Emissions, while being somewhat less toxic, are just gross. On the upside, four or five clowns with shovels can clean it up.

Elhigh

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Let's give it up for Stoatmaster! Thank you! He'll be here all week! Don't forget to tip your servers!
Good night!

NovaloadMissesPolar

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> A new opportunity for the crash test dummy industry.

Is there a kei version, powered by a Shetland pony?

So I said to the horse, "Why the long face?"

A white horse goes into a bar. The barman says "I sell whisky named after you."

The horse says "What? Colin?"

Stoatmaster

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Talk about the "thinking inside the box"!
What's next? A square wheel?

Is there maybe a DARPA Grand Challenge version being developed?

OG_

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Has this been over looked by Insurance Institute for Highway Safety?

But more important is my concern for it's performance on the 'Ring

hmmm

ifonlyihadthemoney

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> I notice they have shown the sports model,they do a slower version powered by an arthritic donkey.

layabout

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Yes the Amish already perfected this method of transport, and it's probably a lot more fun for the horse to pull a wagon than be stuck in there.

Hello_Newman

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> I'm really digging the enslaved humans idea. Not the horrific-and-soul-crushing kind of slavery, the sexy-with-leather-and-body-oil kind of slavery. Rrrow.

kleinlowe

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @tonyola: WTF? A horse cant sustain one horsepower? The second Malaise era must surely be apon us.

andy_wallwhore

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> According to Wikipedia:

"R. D. Stevenson and R. J. Wasserzug published an article in Nature 364, 195-195 (15 July 1993) calculating the upper limit to an animal's power output. The peak power over a few seconds has been measured to be as high as 14.9 hp. However, for longer periods an average horse produces less than one horsepower"

Isn't the internet great? How did we live without trivia like this?

tonyola

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> That's almost putting the cart before the horse.

@Spasticteapot: "... and it hasn't got any Caroll Shelby stickers."

But you've got a prancing stallion on the sides... almost.

thunder

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> So if the "engine" goes bad, do you shoot it?

M0L0TOV

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> I can just imagine the reaction of the local cowboys here if they saw this thing. Hell, even the horses would crack up. But, look at it this way. If the contraption broke down, you could at least ride the horse home. Or tow the stupid thing to the dump.

CptSevere

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> *emission

Schm thinks that the Volt may get him laid. . .

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> I dunno if this kind of thing could pass the PRC's (People's Republic of California) emition standards. Think of all the gasses.

Schm thinks that the Volt may get him laid. . .

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Also, is there a version that accepts hyperactive 5 year olds?

tenbeers

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @ifonlyihadthemoney: Yeah, they think it's horseshit.

tenbeers

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Anything from PETA on this one?

ifonlyihadthemoney

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @JUST POLAЯ: I'm not worried about the fellow driving it... I'm worried about the passenger sitting in the rear seat on the top deck.

Wouldn't the result... naturally... be a Dodge Colt?

Stud Beefpile, sitting in for Deartháir

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> What a crock of happy horseshit.

FuzzyPlushroom

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @Pope Dearthair the Awesometh: Which makes me wonder...
What if another Naturmobile pulls up behind your Naturmobile and tries to mount it?
...and what happens to the poor sod driving the other one?

POLAЯ

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @JUST POLAЯ: I was going to go with, "Some say... that he too has to be brushed and watered before being put away in his stall. And that at least one of the parts he was constructed with appears to have come from a horse. All we know is..."

Stud Beefpile, sitting in for Deartháir

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @Pope Dearthair the Awesometh: Some say his legs look exactly like a Clydesdale's and that he is the real horse whisperer, all we know is...

POLAЯ

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> But where do you stick the probe for the emissions test? Do you kiss the horse before or after the test. Do you recycle the solid and liquid emissions or do you compost them?

v8corvairpickup

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> "And now it's time to see how fast it goes 'round our track, and that, of course, means turning it over to our tame racing driver..."

Stud Beefpile, sitting in for Deartháir

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> *Bumper (what bumper?) Sticker*

Keep back 150 feet, backfires splatter!

POLAЯ

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> We could add a bull on a treadmill up for the luxury of power "steer-ing".

markov - type gna(R)

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Please, somebody euthanize that thing already...

hittatree_p

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> New Breakthrough: Horse Carriage replaces Horseless Carriage!

Man bites dog!

NovaloadMissesPolar

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> So, should I start investing in Beef-a-rino futures?

beercheck

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> "So Wert, what happened to that Naturmobile thing you were testing?"

"I was riding it a little to hard and I glue the motor."

POLAЯ

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Straightline performance is one thing, but these designs would all perform terribly on the lateral-g's on the cornering skidpad... horse-tipping instead of cow-tipping...

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @M_Richardson: Turbos aren't an option. These are strictly naturally asspirated.

beercheck

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> *Hear

Dubious Returns

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> I was going to purchase an Eight Belles edition, but I heard the engine was shot.

But I can imagine what it sounds like to here those engines equine. Do they come with a sunhoof?

/for your cotd submission approval
//or am I beating a dead horse

Dubious Returns

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @Spasticteapot:
that can be fixed... Anyone here a decent photochopper?

icantthinkofone

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> wouldn't this be a bit easier...

vr6john

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @smoke~: COTD.

icantthinkofone

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @smoke~:

Nah. It's too aerodynamic to be a Mustang, and it hasn't got any Caroll Shelby stickers.

Spasticteapot

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Just another special edition mustang.

smokeydog001

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @Spasticteapot: It's just a different kind of emissions, that's all.

They're both pretty nasty in their own way.

lascauxcaveman

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> "Though the transparent body will probably prevent the use of enslaved humans"... tell that to the gorilla on the train in Trading Places.
Amusement factor aside (and for that, I'm sincerely glad for these kinds of posts), this has stupid written all over it.

readplays

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Now for the bus, with 3x the power of the solo, does that mean that it could reach a theroetical top speed of 150mph?

Now all we need is a Natur-camino variant and at that point it will get the Jalopnik Stamp of approval(not really, but we could all dream). But to get that it will also need ALOT more power, maybe 4 horses perhaps...

M_Richardson

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @unemployedjournalist: Beat me to it.

theeastbaykid

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Gabriel Saez thinks this is entirely inappropriate.

unemployedjournalist

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> @markov:

I've seen this thing floating around the Internet for ages. I had, however, assumed it was some sort of conceptual art piece.

If anyone has seen an early automobile, perhaps the first thing noticed would doubtlessly be the massive amounts of blue-gray smoke emitted from the tailpipe. Consider, then, that these were thought to be a much cleaner and less smelly alternative to the horse.

Spasticteapot

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> I'm no Birkenstock-wearing, granola-munching, Phish-listening, hybrid-driving, touchy-feely, bleeding heart liberal type, but this appalls me.

I am, on the other hand, a hyphen abuser.

DannyBN

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> Awesome and all, but, maybe you could just ride the horse?

markov - type gna(R)

]]> <![CDATA[Naturmobile Hybrid Uses Real Horsepower!]]> MMMM, I wonder.....how would you attach a turbocharger to that 1bhp powerplant?

M_Richardson

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