Designing Green: GM’s Future Bare Necessities Car
category: Going Green
Inside GM Advanced Design, the team is working on the environmentally-friendly vehicles of the future. Take an inside look at their eco project and learn more about GM’s future vehicles at thelab.gmblogs.com
The small car i would by is the Grey one, the white looks too kiddish for me. The Grey one has a strong muscular stance and has some American styling. The White one has somewhat of European design language.
The only new car I ever bought or wanted to buy was a metro.
Just think, technically this is propaganda and corporatism. What will come of this?, the world may never know.
These kinds of cars could be HUGE hits if they’re priced under 10K. And to go with that, they’ll need to be fun to drive, efficient, safe, stylish, and have a nice ad campaign to get the word out.
Give me a Z28!
You need to understand the environment my Mustang drives in before making too many assumptions. While up in Prince George we had -42C weather (always started and ran) and in Nanaimo you get some real hills an back roads (i.e. dont fall asleep or you fall off a mountain/cliff and have fun over those log bridges).
I’ll put my Mustangs up against anything on the road, the Ford 289 and straight 6′s last forever from my experience.
My 2009 V6 pony gets 32mpg right now, 3 hrs commute daily on her.
*one* over 200k?
Oh, and all three of these rice burners got mpg > 30, you can thank me for not putting an additional strain on your Albertan tap water.
As my country is bailing out 2 of the Detroit3 and is doing the cash for clunkers thing (curiously, my car does not qualify, certainly tells me something) I’m a little disgruntled at how this industry has been managed.
Post-hoc bail-out rationalizations like this promo are an insult to our intelligence.
Utter Greenwash.
As you’ve averaged 5k a year and mine 15, unless you’ve been driving on the top of glaciers, I doubt your pony knows the meaning of “hard miles.”
Again, my import FWD made it to the top of the mountain. My girls younger 4WD Cherokee did not, and has cost her $2,500 in repairs since mid-June.
Sorry about your friends Camry, but my anecdotes demonstrate to me that I’ve taken all 3 Japanese cars I’ve owned over 200k. Do you know any N.American driver of a post ’74 model sedan that has taken
Being that my Mustang spent most of its life on west coast BC and now in the rockies of Alberta, I doubt your Accord knows the meaning of “hard miles” by comparison lol.
My friends Camry just had its motor replaced on warranty however, so perhaps its all a matter of perspective.
In my personal experience, the imports of my friends and family tend to hold up poorly compared to domestics, but perhaps your experience is different.
It’s rather subjective I guess.
Considering my wheels are being driven at a rate that would put the odometer just shy of the reset (1 million) in 30 years, that’s not looking likely.
These are HARD miles, too; last month I took it to the top of a rutted out gravel trail going up a steep grade (got one posted on youtube.) Meanwhile, my girl with a Cherokee (nominally a truck that was designed to go up mountains like the one the Accord crushed) has seen the inside of the shop 2x since we’ve been to the top of the mountain.
Tata Nano fighter
what a piece of shit
I hate ugly hatchback designs make them into coupé’s instead.
Looks like a Fiat 500, Peugeot 208,Alfa Mito all roll up into one
Great concept. Although It could have been a 30 second video, they repeatedly say the same thing over and over again.. I guess they are not really good at the bare necessity thing yet.
all cars in that class were lighter back then. This is a new age, of heavy vehicles.
damn those cars are ugly, they need to stop smoking crack.
as far as simple, better guess again. i want to know just how many computers do one of those things have. anti lock brakes, i don’t need them.
anti-theft systems, not needed and i will never buy a car that has a factory anti-theft system.
screw green. screw man made global warming. 30~40 years ago those same people were screaming we were headed into an ice age. damn crack smoking idiots
search in yahoo for 31000 scientist petition
Took you long enough GM!
what a crock of shit. does bare necessities mean no air condition or bluetooth?? stuff like that. if it does… i don’t want it. why is gm taking a step back in going “green.” i don’t know about everyone else but i’d like a green car that would not sacrifice any comforts or conveniences. Something like a hybrid ford fiesta. with every technology out there.
How about cars for regular sized people? I don”t see me fitting into either of those without some discomfort. I’m not going to compromise on that..
Harley Earl and Bill Mitchell where have you gone?
So sick of the phrase “Go Green”. No, I will not go green.
Honestly, as good as it is to be “GREEN” and efficient I am kind of getting tired of hearing it over and over and over… Im already beginning to see this as a played out ploy to change the auto industry. Not saying change is bad, but with everyone doin the same thing it gets old really fast. Im just looking for vehicles with good designs now (that means you GM), since everything underneath is basically the same all around.
My 66′ Ford Mustang is going strong, over 234k miles on her … take your time seconded. Btw, let me know how that accord turns out in another 30 yrs.
Environmentally-friendly and bare necessities car, oh God, WE DON´T NEED BIG DONKEY WHEELS!!!