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Video: Are you ready for the fabric-covered car?

posted at 3:57 pm on June 10, 2008 by Allahpundit
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How bored is the media with politics right now? Bored enough for Drudge to have been leading the past 24 hours or so with a story about … tomatoes.

My impression of this thing? If you’re going to shell out for a Beamer, why on earth would you opt for the model that makes it look like you can’t afford metal? A good rule of thumb: A new invention is cool in inverse proportion to the number of words needed to explain its coolness. Behold.


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Carbon fiber is stronger than steel. Dont know what you were talking about.

I didn’t say it wasn’t as strong as steel. I said it wouldn’t take fender-benders very well.

CF is extraordinarily expensive to fabricate, and is stiff rather than flexible, so it would shatter on impact, as you see in Formula One crashes. No more pounding out / filling and repainting a dent for a few hundred bucks; instead you get to get a whole new panel fabricated at five figures.

Alex_SF on June 11, 2008 at 2:17 PM

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