Wikispeed SGT01 seeks funding in Detroit

never going to happen :)

What would be the purpose of a moderately fast 4 seater that looks like a race car?

one evening, after many many many beers, some guy put the question: what if a cheap, street legal lemans look-alike car would be mass produced, would you buy it? some others guys, equally intoxicated replied: hell yeah! why not?! so you have it: wikispeed.

There obviously wasn't an industrial designer within a thousand miles of this stinker!!

This might seem like a pointless project from the perspective of a road vehicle, it would provide a great value platform for motorsport. Think single make series, track days, tarmac rallies, etc. Nice affordable way to get out there and drive home afterwards.

the name is even worst than the design and the basic idea

If wikipedia made cars...theyd probably be the worst cars in the world XD

Eat this prius lovers!

THE MOST POWERFUL ENGINE - PAUT MOTOR- YouTube Prototype 2 is performed as an engine with two-sided pistons, positioned at 90? to each other, in combination with PAUT two-stroke cycles (fig 1). Such construction provides an engine containing less assembling parts, having smaller mass to power and overall-dimensions to power ratios, which are the presumptions for a successful product to be accomplished and for low cost production/exploitation to be expected. Smaller mass, compared to the prior art engines, derives from the fact that PAUT engine contains considerably less assembling parts lacking elements such as: rods, camshafts, camshaft's driving parts, some valves, large heads. The very construction of the two-sided piston (fig 3) has more advantages. Contact area between two-sided piston and cylinder is considerably larger compared to prior art pistons. Hence, specific pressures are lower and since the two-sided piston is lubricated under the pressure, the friction is considerably smaller, the more so as we know that normal force Fn in the engine center equals zero (fig 2a). All these results with less wear of the piston and the cylinder. Such a two-sided piston has considerably smaller mass compared to the prior art assembly it replaces, consisting of two pistons with their prison-shafts and two belonging rods, resulting in lessening of linear motion