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Old June 26th 06, 07:41 PM posted to misc.consumers.frugal-living,rec.autos.tech
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Default New German 157 mpg 4-seater

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:38:55 -0500, max > wrote:

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>I looked at their web page a while back and they are using a few outside the
>box tricks to improve the body's rigidity, most notably they don't have
>doors on the side (!), only the front and back. There's some serious, deeply
>profiled metal forming creating a sort of double bathtub kind of shape
>which, _they_ claim, makes a very stiff body.


That door on the front was really effective in the Isetta, wasn't it?

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