The Tango Car

WIS · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 3:29 am

Eviromental Friendly, small, and simply better.

http://www.gizmag.com/go/3069/

BeDeviled · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 4:15 am

Unless you get into a serious accident, chances of survival are nil.

WIS · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 4:50 am

BeDeviled wrote:

Unless you get into a serious accident, chances of survival are nil.

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It may look vulnerable but it has a carbon fibre body shell and a race-approved roll cage structure which make it a very safe, capable and environmentally responsible vehicle.

Apparently, the Tango's safety was designed to be somewhat as safe as a racecar. From the Commuter Cars website:

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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.

jrtman · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 7:13 am

I'd love to see the looks on people's faces if they seen me driving down the road with that thing. It may have a roll-cage, but have someone run into from any direction and you're as good as dead.

I guess the same goes for motorcycle riders as well, but then again that isn't the point.

TDG · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 10:39 am

That's not a car, its a block with wheels and an angled front. Come back with a decent looking car that's not ugly as sin and as safe, reliable, cheap and efficient, and then I'll look into it

Twizzler0171 · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 1:18 pm

the_dog_god wrote:

That's not a car, its a block with wheels and an angled front. Come back with a decent looking car that's not ugly as sin and as safe, reliable, cheap and efficient, and then I'll look into it

Exactly. These look worse than those boxes they call cars. >_<

And even if they got it decent looking, I probably wouldn't get it. I have a rather large family and so I prefer bigger cars to smaller ones. And probably will all my life.

Paul · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 3:28 pm

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It may look vulnerable but it has a carbon fibre body shell and a race-approved roll cage structure which make it a very safe, capable and environmentally responsible vehicle.

Safe.

I would never buy a Tango Car, or a Smart Car, for the same reasons, I want more than enough space, I want to be able to carry more than two passengers. Also, call me ignorant, but the last thing I'll think about when I'm buying a car is the effect it has on the earth.

Amethyst · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 9:02 pm

Ick. Not good for the severly claustrophobic o.o

.neko. · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 9:16 pm

Paul wrote:

Quote:

It may look vulnerable but it has a carbon fibre body shell and a race-approved roll cage structure which make it a very safe, capable and environmentally responsible vehicle.

Safe.

I would never buy a Tango Car, or a Smart Car, for the same reasons, I want more than enough space, I want to be able to carry more than two passengers. Also, call me ignorant, but the last thing I'll think about when I'm buying a car is the effect it has on the earth.

No one is suggesting that you buy a Tango car or any car for that matter and then drive it at 200 miles per hour.

alien · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 9:17 pm

Paul wrote:

Quote:

It may look vulnerable but it has a carbon fibre body shell and a race-approved roll cage structure which make it a very safe, capable and environmentally responsible vehicle.

Safe.

I would never buy a Tango Car, or a Smart Car, for the same reasons, I want more than enough space, I want to be able to carry more than two passengers. Also, call me ignorant, but the last thing I'll think about when I'm buying a car is the effect it has on the earth.

so you are saying you would buy a huge car (like a hummer) that only gets 7 miles to the gallon, and not care what your childrens future is going to be like?

if it was a bit bigger i might get it depending on teh cost.. but being 5 feet 10 inches i need a little more room then that...

WIS · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 11:41 pm

.neko. wrote:

Paul wrote:

Quote:

It may look vulnerable but it has a carbon fibre body shell and a race-approved roll cage structure which make it a very safe, capable and environmentally responsible vehicle.

Safe.

I would never buy a Tango Car, or a Smart Car, for the same reasons, I want more than enough space, I want to be able to carry more than two passengers. Also, call me ignorant, but the last thing I'll think about when I'm buying a car is the effect it has on the earth.

No one is suggesting that you buy a Tango car or any car for that matter and then drive it at 200 miles per hour.

I think it actually only goes up to 150 miles an hour. =\

Still, I would buy one. It's really cheap, saves you gas money and you can park it into tiny spaces. Even if I have a big family though, I'd get a normal car and a Tango. They're quite cheap, I think.

Jenna! · **Posted:** Fri May 05, 2006 12:07 am

WIS wrote:

.neko. wrote:

Paul wrote:

Quote:

It may look vulnerable but it has a carbon fibre body shell and a race-approved roll cage structure which make it a very safe, capable and environmentally responsible vehicle.

Safe.

I would never buy a Tango Car, or a Smart Car, for the same reasons, I want more than enough space, I want to be able to carry more than two passengers. Also, call me ignorant, but the last thing I'll think about when I'm buying a car is the effect it has on the earth.

No one is suggesting that you buy a Tango car or any car for that matter and then drive it at 200 miles per hour.

I think it actually only goes up to 150 miles an hour. =\

Still, I would buy one. It's really cheap, saves you gas money and you can park it into tiny spaces. Even if I have a big family though, I'd get a normal car and a Tango. They're quite cheap, I think.

They are currently at $85,000 dollars, but in about 2008 or 2009, they are expecting to come out with a less expensive model for about only $18,500.

WIS · **Posted:** Fri May 05, 2006 12:10 am

Zega wrote:

WIS wrote:

.neko. wrote:

Paul wrote:

Quote:

It may look vulnerable but it has a carbon fibre body shell and a race-approved roll cage structure which make it a very safe, capable and environmentally responsible vehicle.

Safe.

I would never buy a Tango Car, or a Smart Car, for the same reasons, I want more than enough space, I want to be able to carry more than two passengers. Also, call me ignorant, but the last thing I'll think about when I'm buying a car is the effect it has on the earth.

No one is suggesting that you buy a Tango car or any car for that matter and then drive it at 200 miles per hour.

I think it actually only goes up to 150 miles an hour. =\

Still, I would buy one. It's really cheap, saves you gas money and you can park it into tiny spaces. Even if I have a big family though, I'd get a normal car and a Tango. They're quite cheap, I think.

They are currently at $85,000 dollars, but in about 2008 or 2009, they are expecting to come out with a less expensive model for about only $18,500.

Hmm, I thought they didn't mass-produce them yet because the company that they signed a deal with canceled out. But yeah, a while ago the makers of Tango signed a contract with this other car company. There was some law that each car company had to reach a kind of quota on fuel effecient/enviromentally friendly cars. So then they were about to sign the contract, but the law got revoked or something. Then the car company decided to not... sign the contract. *is bad with words*

Paul · **Posted:** Fri May 05, 2006 6:48 am

alien wrote:

so you are saying you would buy a huge car (like a hummer) that only gets 7 miles to the gallon, and not care what your childrens future is going to be like?

No. Unless I really wanted a Hummer.

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