Comments on: Tiny Toyota iQ Makes Big Splash in Geneva http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/05/tiny-toyota-iq/ CarDomain Blog - Crazy news and CarDomain Finds Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:12:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: gtwildfire http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/05/tiny-toyota-iq/comment-page-1/#comment-25622 gtwildfire Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:09:25 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/tiny-toyota-iq#comment-25622 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Is this what we're all destined for? If so PLEASE just shoot me now so I don't have to live in a world of these things.<br /> -<br /> What's so bad about cars that are wider than they are tall? Why not have an actual body instead of just a wrapper around a tiny passenger cabin?<br /> -<br /> I guess the premise is that these are city cars. I'm glad I don't live in a city for other reasons. Here's one more...</p> </div>

Is this what we’re all destined for? If so PLEASE just shoot me now so I don’t have to live in a world of these things.
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What’s so bad about cars that are wider than they are tall? Why not have an actual body instead of just a wrapper around a tiny passenger cabin?
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I guess the premise is that these are city cars. I’m glad I don’t live in a city for other reasons. Here’s one more…

]]> By: gtwildfire http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/03/05/tiny-toyota-iq/comment-page-1/#comment-25623 gtwildfire Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:04:49 +0000 http://cardomain.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/tiny-toyota-iq#comment-25623 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>There's probably like 2 inches for legs back there. Also, I seriously doubt the safety of rear occupants in a rear-end collision. Even if it has a hard cage that maintains the cabin integrity, then there's the problem of having NO crumple zones to absorb energy. That energy, not being reduced is transferred directly to the occupants. Also, there's some deformation in even the strongest of cabins... but there's very little room between the back seats and the back of the car.</p> <p>Naah, no matter how expensive gas gets I wouldn't be caught dead in one of these things.</p></div>

There’s probably like 2 inches for legs back there. Also, I seriously doubt the safety of rear occupants in a rear-end collision. Even if it has a hard cage that maintains the cabin integrity, then there’s the problem of having NO crumple zones to absorb energy. That energy, not being reduced is transferred directly to the occupants. Also, there’s some deformation in even the strongest of cabins… but there’s very little room between the back seats and the back of the car.

Naah, no matter how expensive gas gets I wouldn’t be caught dead in one of these things.

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