SDSU Students Create Sporty Hybrid Vehicle

Nevyan writes "SDSU Engineering students working in conjunction with real life designers create an electric hybrid vehicle that actually...well.. looks cool for all the right reasons. Participant in the Tour de Sol. I happened to see this vehicle on campus at SDSU and I want to buy one so badly." Njaneer.com has more information and photos - here's one to give you an idea of the size.

SDSU != South Dakota State University

[DaHat]

Just a warning to all of my fellow South Dakota residence... in this case SDSU is not South Dakota State University in Brookings South Dakota, but sadly is in fact San Diego State University... blast those Californians taking all of our acronyms... in this world if you say SF or SD people think you mean San Francisco or San Diego... when will the world learn that they mean Sioux Falls and South Dakota instead! The FAA and Post Office agree with me... when will the rest of you?

Re:The irony

[Xoro]

Also sad: Proof [njaneer.com] that a cool car doesn't make you look any less geeky...

nice website, l3!

[supahdren]

L3 Research Inc. is a company that merges the future with today. Our hybrid technology incorporates best-in-class, off-the-shelf solutions without compromise. We call it Lean Muscle.

I never thought about it, but "best-in-class, off-the-shelf solutions" is a great way of saying "we stole a copy of photoshop to fade our picture edges and yoinked some flash buttons from a quake fansite we found." oh wait, they're talking about the car.... :) just kidding guys, hybrid technology rocks the blizock

Re:YES!! Finally!!

[RAzaRazor]

Yeah, it looks cool so you can pick up the chicks.

But with no back seat, how are you supposed to get laid???

This is excellent

[edo-01]

I have long suspected (half jokingly), as I am sure have many here, that the big car companies who have developed hybrid/alternate energy cars have deliberately made them look incredibly ugly [gmev.com] to prevent anyone actually wanting to buy one.

It's great to see one of these cars that actually looks cool, even if the models posing with the car don't. [sectorcity.net]

Drunk...cannot make sense of post...head hurting..

[Tyler Durden]

"I've been saying this among friends for a while... the only reason that these early electric and hybrid cars all look like ass! "

Arrrrggggghhh!!! Finish the sentence! What is this supposed to mean?

-Tyler

Vacuums really make my blood boil.

Re:SDSU != South Dakota State University

[Anonymous Coward]

The FAA... agree with me

I work for the Fresno Academic Administration and I can assure you that we do not!

Doors?

[jcsehak]

Are those doors or drive-in-movie trays? What is that, like 3 less inches you have to step over to get out? I say save money on hinges and go dukes of hazzard style.

Then there's North Dakota...

[green pizza]

Which is smaller and has fewer residents than South Dakota... home of (you guessed it) wheat, barley, durum, sunflowers, and canola. 36 B-52's, some air refueling tankers, 150 Minuteman ICBMs.

My roommate's from there... I quote "North Dakota? Heh... not much going on there. Heck, the largest city in North Dakota is less than half the size of Lubbock, Texas".

Re:YES!! Finally!!

[DarkHelmet]

Well, consider it a car of compromise.

This vehicle is a hybrid, meaning that they couldn't go electric all the way.

And since it only has two seats, you too get to experience the "Art of Compromise", and you too can't "go" all the way.

Like a heroin addict gone to methadone instead of quitting cold turkey. Like a red meat eater only eating chicken and fish instead of going vegan. Like a virgin, touched for the very first time....

No wait... that's right.. You don't get laid. All you get is Road Head. Behold the art of compromise!

Re:Great cars and can tell the future...

[Anonymous Coward]

You have confused future with past. Predicting the future is about knowing things that will happen after now, in the direction we're going. Knowing the past (the direction we're coming from) is less impressive.

Let me help clear up this future vs past thing, since it can be confusing.

When you posted that, my reply post was the future. You probably didn't know that I was going to condescendingly flame you. If you did know, that would be predicting the future.

When I posted this condescending flame, your post was in the past. I didn't "predict" that you would say something stupid in the future; I was looking into the past, which is easier.

Hope this helps.