VIDEO: G-Wiz takes on an even smaller electric car!
If you've been paying any attention at all, you'll be aware that we hold the G-Wiz electric quadricycle in the same sort of "high" regard that Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson does. What more can be said about a "car" that implodes in a standard crash test and goes from naught to 40mph in "quite a while"? Apparently, the Top Gear crew felt that in spite of it's "sparkling" performance racing against a table (although it did come out much worse than the table in the crash test) there was still room for improvement. They added some extra batteries, and a radio control setup and ran it against a Mustang Shelby GT on the drag-strip where it performed admirably for once. To evaluate the handling of the upgraded G-Wiz, they handed the controller to The Stig for a competition against Richard Hammond and a more conventional radio controlled truck. Check out the results after the jump.
[Source: Top Gear, YouTube]
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kt 12:10PM (12/27/2007)
The smaller remote controlled car was NOT electric, couldn't you see the exhaust spewing out if it? Not to mention the sound of the engine?
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tchamp 4:31PM (12/27/2007)
Nope, it was a Gas R/C car.
BTW, here's the full video complete with the drag race vs. a Shelby Mustang
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eJfRdz_TH0E
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russellgeister 4:45PM (12/27/2007)
while im a big fan of ev's building this kind of road going crap must not be allowed it makes it harder to get the general public to accept ev's as a viable alternative to the infernal combustion engine.
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Smith 9:19PM (12/27/2007)
Send them the hot rod version of this to test:
http://www.commutercars.com/
See what it will do around their track.
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Sam Abuelsamid 9:30PM (12/27/2007)
I would like to see what the Stig could do with the Tango!!
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David 5:14AM (1/11/2008)
I have always thought the G-Wiz as an apt car for city commuting. After the crash test I was quite apprehensive about the safety provided by this little small cute car. But now the G-Wiz has its new version the G-Wiz i, which is better and safer.
Check this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKbVOe7q4Dc
So a quadricycle has improved its safety standards in 7 – 8 months, but how many guzzlers have tried to reduce pollution over this period???
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