BRP Spyder Roadster

BRP (Bombardier Recreational Products) Spyder Roadster is the first ‘on-road’ vehicle from the company. Previously BRP have produced jetskis, sport boats, snowmobiles, ATV’s, go-karts and outboard motors. The three-wheeled Can-Am Spyder, with two wheels in the front and one in the rear, offers an alternative and attractive look.

The Can-Am Spyder roadster is powered by a proven 990cc V Twin engine designed and manufactured by BRP-Rotax, with its unique Y-shaped design, the Can-Am Spyder roadster could be described as part motorcycle and part convertible sports car.

World Cheapest Car has been Unveiled

Indian car manufacturer, Tata Motors, has unveiled the world’s cheapest motor car at India’s biggest car show in the capital, Delhi. The vehicle, called the Tata Nano, will sell for 100,000 rupees or $2,500 (£1,277) and enable those in developing countries to move to four wheels. Please visit our former post about this project.

The four-door five-seater car, which goes on sale later this year, has a 33bhp, 624cc, engine at the rear. Tata will initially make about 250,000 Tata Nanos and expects eventual annual demand of one million cars. The price will be slightly more than the 100,000 once tax and other costs are taken into consideration. The Nano release comes as India’s domestic car market is predicted to soar in the coming years on the back of the country’s fast-growing economy and increased consumer wealth.

Flying Car is Real

Some years ago, flying car might be an imagination only. It only a imagination vehicle in animation films. But, flying car is reel. Hope it will come to the market a couple of years to go. Moller Skycar M400, its a succeed flying car prototype which just has been tested several days ago.

The Moller Skycar is a prototype personal VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft — a “flying car” — called a “volantor” by its inventor Paul Moller, who has been attempting to develop such vehicles for many years. The design calls for four ducted fans – the propellors being covered which is safer and more efficient at low speeds.

The Skycar might use a system like the Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) in 3D “crowded” airspace areas. Further, developers claim that by using eight inexpensive Wankel rotary engines – compared to jet engines, the vehicle’s price may eventually fall close to that of a luxury car ($100,000), even if at the moment the price for the first units is expected to be close to USD$1 million.

A smaller version of the low-emissions Wankel engine from the M400 was slated for the Moller M200X, and these engines runs on a mixture of 70% (bio)ethanol and 30% water. Earlier models used gasoline. The ethanol/water fuel mixture makes the fuel almost totally non-flammable outside the engines, which dramatically lowers the fire hazard. The water cools the engines, with a higher usable compression and the result is better performing engines than with 100% ethanol. The mixture makes the engine pollution lower than the California strict SULEV standard (Super Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle). Even with pure ethanol the engines fulfills the SULEV standard.

The Skycar demonstrated limited tethered flight capability in 2003. Scheduled tethered flight tests, that were to occur in mid-2006, were apparently canceled. Moller upgraded the Skycar’s engines in 2007, and the improved prototype is now called the “M400X”. Additional flight tests were supposedly to be conducted once Moller engineers have completed the upgrades to the Skycar’s nacelles with the larger engines. Recently, the skycar has gone through several permulations after wind testing. The wind testing has allowed the engineers of Moller International to actually improve safer landings and ground stability.

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