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"Dave Baker" wrote:

The microcar concept is a million miles from what I'm contemplating here.
Making cars very small and very short is counterproductive in most respects.
Safety, luggage capacity and very importantly it makes it impossible to
generate a low drag shape.



Low drag is completely irrelevant when driving at town speeds.

No-one is suggesting that a microcar is suitable for anything other than
low speed, short distance use.