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Clever Inventions - Interesting Vehicles

Here we have an assortment of vehicles chosen for their unusual design and radical transport concept.

The Clever - Compact Low Emission Vehicle

Note this not a joke - well not yet! The Compact Low Emission Vehicle cost £1.5 million to design and build. Will it be too Clever for it's own good, like Sir Clive Sinclair's C5? Alternatively could it be from the long line of great British invention that is improved by other nationalities, for example the Hover Craft.

Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport

British scientists have developed what could be a congestion-busting answer to city traffic. The Clever - Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport - is a cross between a car and a motorbike. It has a top speed of 60mph, runs on compressed gas and will do the equivalent of 108 miles per gallon of petrol. The two-seater uses a novel tilting chassis and is the result of a 40-month project by researchers in nine European countries. The three-year, £1.5m EU-funded research project aimed to produce a totally different class of private motor vehicle specifically designed for the urban environment. Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport. The Clever with Roof

'The only solutions at the moment are motorbikes or cars, 'said Ben Drew, a research officer at the University of Bath, one of the institutions involved in the project.' The idea is to try to marry the small size and efficiency of a motorcycle with the comfort and safety of a standard car, 'he said.

Unlike the prototype, the finished version will have a roof and at just over a metre wide will be even narrower than a Smart car.

Easyglider

A figure skater, Stephan Soder, has designed a new way to commute:12mph electric tricycle.
Stephan Soder came up with the idea as a way to pull himself along while wearing rollerblades. He built the first one in his garage with a small petrol motor. The commercial version is called the Easyglider X6 which riders can use with a skateboard or roller-blades or stand on a two-wheeled rear platform.

It features an electric-powered front wheel, a handbrake, a headlight, and three power levels. Optional extras include a music system, complete with a pair of mini speakers. To use the Easyglider, you simply turn it on, stand on the platform and twist the throttle.

The price may prove too much for some. It sells at £699,[$1400USD] with a children's version available for £399.[$816USD]

Terrafugia - Escape from the earth

The dream of combining a car and plane has been floating around for 100 years. Perhaps fantasy will be turned into reality in the wide-open spaces of mid-America, or even Australia. If the price is beyond farmers, then perhaps executive who live out of town, and frequently travel long distances will be tempted by the Terrafugia. Terrafugia half car, half plane

At the touch of a button the Transition from Terrafugia four-wheeled car extends a pair of wings either side of its main body. Chief operating officer, Anna Mracek Dietrich, said, 'It will take just a few seconds to transform and will be fully automated after the command is given in the cockpit. We're currently sold out for at least the first year, approaching the first two of production.'

The Transition will use low-cost electronics and feature GPS and auto-pilot weather radar. The prototype, which runs on super unleaded petrol, cruises at 120mph and lands at 65mph. The estimated hourly fuel burn of four gallons equates to 30mpg in flight. Terrafugia - which means escape from the earth - are selling for $150,000. See more about the Terrafugia

Is this the future of high-speed, low-emission transport we ask? Will and Guy investigate:

Road Streamliner

A Swiss company has created the world's fastest ever road vehicle, a 340mph bullet-shaped cross between a motorbike and a car.

Called the 'Road Streamliner' it has an impressive specification. The Acabion GTBO looks like a jet fighter cockpit on wheels; it has stabilisers, and has the power-to-weight ratio of a Formula One car. Its makers claim it could reach 300mph in 30 seconds, much quicker than the Bugatti Veyron which takes 55 seconds to reach its top speed of 250mph. An electric version with a top speed of around 300mph is also planned and its designer, former Porsche engineer Dr Peter Maskus, sees it as the future of high-speed, low-emission transport.

Now we have you well and truly hooked here is the bad news: the asking price is likely to be £1.5million [almost $3million USD] for the 25 limited edition GTBOs.

Clever Family Transport

Dean and Rachel Mullin from Irvington, Portland, Oregon, USA, are towing a Burley trailer with their second youngest child in the back. Rachel is carrying her baby in a sling. Their two older children are pedalling in front. Apparently when they travel up hill, Dean activates the small electrical motor to that he installed. The children don't always want to pedal. Dean told reporters that his motto is, 'Burn fat not oil.'

The Worlds Oldest Car - La Marquise

The world's oldest working car is set to go under the hammer - and it is expected to fetch up to £1 million. The world's oldest car

La Marquise can reach a top speed of 38 mph The four-wheeled car, called La Marquise, was built in 1884 for the Count De Dion, one of the founders of the automobile manufacturers De Dion-Bouton et Trepardoux. It has only had two other owners since, according to Gooding & Company, the auction house selling it in August 2007.

The four-seater, fuelled by coal, wood and paper, takes about half an hour to work up enough steam to go. In an 1887 race, La Marquise hit an average speed of 26 miles per hour on a 19-mile course. The following year it won the world's first motor race, beating out its three-wheeled competition, another De Dion-Bouton. The steam-powered La Marquise was built in France in 1884 by De Dion-Bouton et Trepardoux, one year before Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz each independently built their first gasoline-powered cars in German. Twelve years later, Henry Ford built his first automobile in the US.

La Marquise is being sold by Gooding & Company, the California-based auction house, in August in Pebble Beach.

The World's Fastest Milk Float

A 'souped-up' milk float is to be used in an attempt to smash a land speed record to become the fastest milk float in the west. The ''Electric Blue'' has been specially adapted with an extra motor fitted, it has a fin on its roof, to combat turbulence, and has its suspension lowered for the attempt. And owner Kevin Bourne hopes to beat the current record of 71.4mph next year, reports the Metro newspaper.

'Everyone has a stock impression of milk floats travelling at 10mph, so you don't expect to see one accelerate to 80mph,'commented Mr Bourne.

This vehicle has been on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, UK.

Taiki Concept Car

Mazda Motors introduces a new concept vehicle, Taiki, during at the 40th Tokyo Motor Show, 2007.

Giant Motorbike - Interesting Vehicle

A giant motorbike powered by a Russian tank engine has been recognised as the heaviest in the world.It's been dubbed the Led Zeppelin by creator Tilo Nieber, 39, who commented, 'You don't get much more heavy metal than this.'

The four-and-a-half tonne machine has driven into the Guinness Book of Records as the heaviest motorbike in the world. It is 17ft 4ins long and 7ft 6ins tall and the engine alone weighs 1.8 tonnes after the armour plating tank cover has been stripped off. The bike, which took a team of welders and mechanics almost a year to build at the Harzer Bike Schmiede in Zilly, Germany, is now hoping for a licence to travel on the road.

Clever Inventions - Interesting Vehicles

Clever Inventions - Interesting Vehicles

The Clever - Compact Low Emission Vehicle

Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport

Easyglider

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Terrafugia - Escape from the earth

Road Streamliner

Clever Family Transport

The Worlds Oldest Car - La Marquise

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The World's Fastest Milk Float

Taiki Concept Car

Giant Motorbike - Interesting Vehicle

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