Sunmotor to release electric car, beat it with ugly stick
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Lovers of good car design: avert your eyes! The Sunmotor Group, an EV hopeful based in Boston, has announced plans to release its first all-electric vehicle before the end of the year. We wish they wouldn't because this sucker is über-ugly. Obviously based on a smart fortwo clone, major modifications were required to allow the use of a large solar array on the misshapen roof, which has created a textbook case of function punching form in the mouth. The windshield has been disfigured along the way in an effort to meet up with the excessively long canopy, while the upper rear probiscis could easily behead someone standing behind this thing when it's backing up. Last joke: SsangYong called, they want their designers back.
Despite looking like a Scion that swallowed a canoe, the specifications of Sunmotor's EV sound decent for a low-speed EV. The company believes it can get 160 miles per charge, though only with a top speed of 25 miles per hour. Plus, with 10 horsepower pushing around 2,600 pounds of mass, the supposed acceleration of 0-25 in 5 seconds sounds rather optimistic.
Gallery: Sunmotor EV
[Source: Sunmotor via AutoblogGreen]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
BlackCanary 3:34PM (8/08/2008)
There are so few words to express the amount of suck that thing is.
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Vintage 3:52PM (8/08/2008)
Resuckulous?
But seriously. This just set electric vehicles back another decade.
Sharone 4:04PM (8/08/2008)
The design appears to have been stolen from Habib Motors of Pakistan. Actually we Pakistanis make better cars when compared to this heheh.
थोडे समय बाद सारे फिरंगी ऐसी खटारा गाडी चलाऍग़े. L.O.L.
tankd0g 4:15PM (8/08/2008)
Clearly this is a result of initial tests at the Large Hadron Collider. You can see signs of worm hole distortion.
WhyNotTheC63? 9:52PM (8/08/2008)
Smart+Shark = suckasaurus Elect[..ric]. Gay car.
Pacman 3:36PM (8/08/2008)
Looks like a retarded Smart car.
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LMBVette 4:24PM (8/08/2008)
If MC Escher designed cars...........it would look like this thing.
Thomas 5:13PM (8/08/2008)
Yes. It's like they took the 3d model for a smart car into their design software, and used the magnet tool(or whatever) to pull it out in the front and back.
At least when this car runs out of electricity, looks like it's long enough for you to climb to the top and take a nap.
rooster 5:34PM (8/08/2008)
Perhaps the result of smart cars inbreeding?
CarlosMC 7:18PM (8/08/2008)
Exactly, ugliness can't even begin to disguise it!
Lou 3:36PM (8/08/2008)
This thing is begging for a motor swap from my GE washer...although I have heard Whirlpool motors have more torque. A new era of hotrodding is upon us!
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Starnerf 3:38PM (8/08/2008)
Pounds of mass? My physics sense is tingling...
And speaking of physics, it can't be that heavy if it's floating above the grass like that.
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matt 3:54PM (8/08/2008)
What are you talking about? That's clearly an actual photograph. Ha! They must have found the most inexperienced photoshoppers out there- I could photoshop it better in 5 minutes. Now to photoshop the actual vehicle to make it look better... that'll be at least a week.
Silpheed 3:38PM (8/08/2008)
Timmay!
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Torrent 3:50PM (8/08/2008)
It's a gay Rubix Cube.
3seriesisking 3:52PM (8/08/2008)
Ja....Ja....Ja....Jimmay!
Will 3:39PM (8/08/2008)
Why not just start with an xB if you need a whole bunch of roof area in a small, lightweight car?
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OubelhaNegra 3:40PM (8/08/2008)
My Explanation to this atrocity.
"This Smart was created the 31 of December of 2007 at 5 AM and everybody was really drunk"
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Kingus 4:42PM (8/08/2008)
I'm sure you meant Jan 1st 2008 :p
OubelhaNegra 4:44PM (8/08/2008)
LOLOL I notice that.
thanks