11/20/10

Peugeot City Toy

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Auto Car | Peugeot City Toy | All projects are based on a study theme. In this case, the initial request was urban mobility. But the enthusiastic staff at the Peugeot Style Centre also wanted to celebrate the year 2000. When they were little kids, they all had visions of flying cars!
The Y2K changeover occurred without any bugs arising: cars still have four wheels!

The oddest of all "City Toyz" must be this E-doll. It's a sort of revival of the scooter or bubble car of the early 1950s. Like the Bobslid it carries three people, but this time next to each other, where the driver sits in the middle.
It has no side doors and the windscreen runs from the front all the way over to the rear of the car. The car is powered by two electric motors and measures 2.5 x 1.54 x 1.29 metres (length x width x height). The bubble-like passengers compartment is part of the self-supporting carbon-fiber body which also carries the batteries.

The driver operates E-doll with scooter-like handlebars incorporating a starter, twist-grip "gas" and brake controls and a twin-dial instrument panel. In the rear the chassis incorporates a trolley (here filled with colored balls) for shopping purposes.

The rear axle has two transverse control arms. To each of these control arms an electric motor straight out of the Peugeot Electric Scooter is attached, which drives the rear wheel by a belt. The two complete drive units are separated from the body and have a silver colored casing. In front here are two triangulated half-axles of a pseudo McPherson type.
It's a funny but unrealistic car; still, incorporating a shopping trolley in a car is a good and practical idea. I wonder if we'll see that in the future on production cars.

Concept idea: Thread your way through traffic without making a show of it.
Style: A line links a large wheel at the rear to a small one at the front.
Architecture: Large side opening and adjustable flush-fitting seats on the central seats.
Passenger seating: 3 seats in tandem
Driver’s position: Central
Special feature: Futuristic driver’s position: Neither handlebars nor a steering wheel. Instead there are joy sticks for steering the wheels.
Greatest advantages: Incredible capacity, nothing mechanical
The passenger compartment is split into two halves: One for the passengers, and the other for stowage
Engine type: 4-wheel drive with 10 small 500 W electric motors on each wheel
Colour: Metallic red

Kart Up
Concept idea: Small, two-tone vehicle built for speed
Architecture: Huge movable windscreen
Passenger seating: 2 seats side by side
Driver’s position: Classic for a Kart – at ground level.
Special feature: The only two-colour model among the City Toyz
Greatest advantage: Dynamism
Engine type: V6 series engine – 152 kW, 210 hp
Colour: Blend of dark metallic grey and pearly white

A sporty and good looking City Toy is the Kart-up. It's a 2-seater roadster with a very large, very horizontal windscreen that's almost like a roof and opens with the bonnet in a forward direction. Power comes from a standard Peugeot V6 producing 210 hp and the Kart-up has a self-supporting carbon-fiber body.
The Kart-up measures a modest 3.28 x 1.52 x 1.08 metres (length x width x height). This light and arrow-like car must be very quick and exciting with its 210 hp engine, especially considering the low seating position.

Vroomster
Concept idea: A water scooter that looks like a four-wheel motorbike!
Architecture: A quite narrow vehicle with a huge extended windscreen
Passenger seating: 2 seats in tandem
Driver’s position: Astride a saddle
Special feature: Motor in-between the passengers’ legs
Greatest advantage: Easy to get on it
Engine type: 80 kW – 110 hp
Colour: Flashy green

Source : robson.m3rlin.org

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