do you think performance machine when you see this?
01-24-2005, 04:17 PM
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do you think performance machine when you see this?
<center><img src="http://www.commutercars.com/images/gallery/seattle/index/indexfiles/IMG_2188.JPG.jpg"></center><p>As many as four Tangos can fit in one parallel parking space. Many parking locations also have spaces that only motorcycles and Tangos can fit in.
Some other long-standing concerns on the show-room floor are safety, performance, and handling.
Because safety is such a concern for small cars in particular, we have designed the Tango around a roll cage that meets or exceeds both SCCA and NHRA regulations. These are racing organizations that specify cage design to protect the occupants of cars crashing at over 200 mph. In addition, the extremely high strength-to-surface area ratio of a steel roll cage allows superb visibility from within the Tango. Rollover too is a great danger for many vehicles. The Tango, being so narrow, would look to the layman's eye to be unstable. But in fact, the Tango has stability that exceeds that of most sport cars.
Tangoing between psychedelic witches
buried in asphalt. As far as performance goes, the Tango is no slouch. Since electric cars--especially small ones--are generally thought to be slow and weak performers we set out to blow some minds by designing the Tango to accelerate through the standing 1/4 mile in 12 seconds at over 120 mph and travel from 0 to 60 mph in under 4 seconds.
And as for handling, who would think a car this narrow could compete? All the people we beat at the autocross!
http://www.commutercars.com/features600.php<ul><li><a href="http://www.commutercars.com/images/theater/marinaAutocross/marina_mov.html">autocross clip</a></li></ul>
Some other long-standing concerns on the show-room floor are safety, performance, and handling.
Because safety is such a concern for small cars in particular, we have designed the Tango around a roll cage that meets or exceeds both SCCA and NHRA regulations. These are racing organizations that specify cage design to protect the occupants of cars crashing at over 200 mph. In addition, the extremely high strength-to-surface area ratio of a steel roll cage allows superb visibility from within the Tango. Rollover too is a great danger for many vehicles. The Tango, being so narrow, would look to the layman's eye to be unstable. But in fact, the Tango has stability that exceeds that of most sport cars.
Tangoing between psychedelic witches
buried in asphalt. As far as performance goes, the Tango is no slouch. Since electric cars--especially small ones--are generally thought to be slow and weak performers we set out to blow some minds by designing the Tango to accelerate through the standing 1/4 mile in 12 seconds at over 120 mph and travel from 0 to 60 mph in under 4 seconds.
And as for handling, who would think a car this narrow could compete? All the people we beat at the autocross!
http://www.commutercars.com/features600.php<ul><li><a href="http://www.commutercars.com/images/theater/marinaAutocross/marina_mov.html">autocross clip</a></li></ul>
01-24-2005, 04:31 PM
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$85k yeeouch! but 0-60 in 4secs. 12sec 1/4mile kit car.
I want one 
The Tango T600 has been built around a racecar roll cage designed to protect occupants in 200 mph crashes. It has four times more protective steel in each door than a typical SUV, for example. It also has 4-point jet pilot harnesses giving ease of mobility as well as outstanding security.
It comes w/ coilovers!
The Tango T600 has been built around a racecar roll cage designed to protect occupants in 200 mph crashes. It has four times more protective steel in each door than a typical SUV, for example. It also has 4-point jet pilot harnesses giving ease of mobility as well as outstanding security.
It comes w/ coilovers!
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01-24-2005, 05:14 PM
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that lil toy weighs 2500lbs. I am guessing that the battery is below the floorboards
it has supposedly has passed govt rollover tests.
If I could fit in one I would want one. 39" headroom.
If I could fit in one I would want one. 39" headroom.
01-24-2005, 05:26 PM
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With a cage like that & no crushzones you'll survive, but your back & brain might not.
I guess that's what the 4 point harness is for.
Other concerns:
- The backseat looks about as useful as the TT's.
- It's easy to get that kind of performance from electric vehicles, you just drop in an oversized motor & up the voltage. What's the range like under perfomance driving conditions? Will you have to plug the thing in between autocross runs?
- The guy at the end of the autocross needs to put street tires back on that car, cos his skills are not suited to R compounds. :^)
Other concerns:
- The backseat looks about as useful as the TT's.
- It's easy to get that kind of performance from electric vehicles, you just drop in an oversized motor & up the voltage. What's the range like under perfomance driving conditions? Will you have to plug the thing in between autocross runs?
- The guy at the end of the autocross needs to put street tires back on that car, cos his skills are not suited to R compounds. :^)