Future cars????

[HKS]

Some of the above ones have bluff kind body

So how are they aerodynamically efficient???

Other examples are like Suzuki Mud Master, X Head etc...

[MrT]

http://www.naro.co.uk/index2.htm

This is an interesting vehicle dynamics project! I know the people designing and testing this car and it utilises quite a complex active electronics system, and fly by wire etc. When you turn right to turn into a right hand bend the car initially steers left, the body rolls right, then the car steers right with a body roll brake turned on, this means that the car body is leant into the corner but without using any hydralics etc.... It's an interesting concept, works a little like riding a bike (apparently you initially steer a little to the outside of the bend to generate the lean angle then)

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[RH1300S]

On a motorcycle, when you counter-steer you don't actually turn left to turn right (meaning the motorcycle does not move in a left curve then a right curve).

To turn right, push the right bar away from you (as if trying to turn left), but the gyroscopic forces make the wheel lean to the right, this takes the bike into a lean to the right.

Perhaps this concept is using the same effect and will reply on motorcycle shaped tyres to allow the lean to happen. So really, it works like to motorcycles with paralell links between them rather than a rigid chassis.

I could be interesting correcting oversteer

I have harboured thoughts of a vehicle like this myself for some time. Somewhere more in the sporting arena. Imagine a similar idea, a little wider and lower (trade some traffic advantages for long distance efficiency and more pace) - I imagined something that would take two people, running on a small bike engine (say 600/750cc), high performance, but with a very low frontal area and good aero, it could have great fuel consumption cruising on a motorway or A-road and would have some pace for those fun bits.

The lean concept allows a taller and slimmer vehicle without the same risk of falling over that you would get in a car type chassis.

Cool idea - I like it

[ds.raikkonen]

Interesting, the Peugeot looks like the Audi Nero concept.