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What Would a Street-Legal DeltaWing Car Look Like? Whaddaya Mean, "I Don't Want to Know?"

By Rain Noe - June 4, 2014

in Cars

Sometimes a manufacturer pulls the sheets off of a hotly-anticipated concept car, like Volkswagen did with their GTI Roadster Vision, and the crowd gasps. Other times, they yank the sheets off and you hear silence. Dead silence. Then mournful, declining trumpet notes.

We will leave it up to you to decide which category the following falls in.

We were excited when Ben Bowlby developed his crazy-looking Deltawing racecar design, a bad-ass piece of Batmobilery:

Well, DeltaWing Technologies, the company that owns the design, has released a "design study" attempting to adapt it to a roadgoing consumer version. Here's the rendering:

Yeah.

They are reportedly shopping this around in an effort to woo manufacturers into mass-producing it.

That is all from me.

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Brian

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A&feature=kp
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The seat guy

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Try to brake hard and steer trying to avoid a sudden obstacle on a rough asphalt road with not-so-new shocks: you have very high chances of flipping over with only one wheel in front. This escape manouver is the nighmare of all the Tuk-Tuk drivers.
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looks like a greyhound with an overbite.
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