Gordon Murray, designer of the Maclaren F1 and super cars has a proposal for a city car for the crowded urban environment. The T-25 seats the driver on the centerline of this rolling jellybean, and will seat 2 very friendly passengers in the back seat. Go here to see all the details, including seating arrangements on slide 4 of 5.
Featuring a 600cc engine, and a top speed electronically limited to 80 mph, this is 60% of what it would take to get me to consider one. I'd give it 20% more if the rear seating were eliminated and the rear axle replaced with a single tire. The rather marginal performance is then traded for an all-weather motorcycle, free from most Federal nannyisms and qualified to use the HOV lanes in winter.
Is this dangerous? Sure, but then I ride a 2-wheeler regularly that has no air bags or crash protection whatsoever. This thing weighs 1200 lbs, and has 2 air bags. A commuter car needs to seat only one person, and a bit of luggage, that being all 90% of the cars on the road actually carry. You'd think that an engineer who designs single-seat vehicles for a living could make this connection.
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