ME 261.5?

Yep. I vote for enclosed motorcycle-based car thing as well. For the most part, they're treated as motorcycles for registration and regulation purposes, although around here you don't have to wear a helmet if they're closed in.

There was an Elio I used to see pretty regularly painted to look like a clown fish.

-Rob

Looking at the wheel configuration, it appears to be a motorcycle with training wheels on the sides, and an enclosure that is supposed to suggest "airplane."

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Originally posted by dubya:
Empire's spotted "car" here has two wheels in the back. The Louisianna Elio (which may never go into production) has two in the front similar to a Can-Am, but the Elio has a body. It was supposed to be made in a closed Harley factory.

The Elio no longer really looks cutting edge any more...


There is also a Polaris Slingshot but those are pretty much $80K+.


The Can-Am Spyder at 20Kish is the likely the most affordable that is available.

They're both like 20k.

I was gonna say.. $80k pesos maybe.

Even the top top highest-end Slingshot you can get is about $35kish. The cheapie models MSRP starts at $22k.

Perhaps he's confusing the Slingshot with the Ariel Atom? Although that has 4 wheels, the price point is a bit closer, and it is a tube chassis like the middle pic..

I assumed he was thinking of the KTM X-Bow

That is a Litestar. Made between 1984 and 1990.

http://www.autocycles.org/

Yes, I will have to figure out what I was looking at that was $80K. Even uses they were about that. I will have to cogitate on this...

Yes, it was the X-Bow. I had seen an ad on the idiot box and had checked on them...
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Quote...Pricing of the U.S.-spec X-Bow will start at $88,500 for the base 'Street' model. Stepping up to the 'Clubsport' will set you back $103,500, while the up-level 'Superlight' will list from $134,500. The range-topping 'GT4' is set to carry a starting price of $139,000.

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It looks like the fuselage of a Bede BD-5.

Apparently Jim Bede also designed the Litestar (thank you, OneWheelDrive).

That'll never fly.

Guess that what happens when you lose your wings or your well grounded

Only three wheels at most would touch the ground at any one time and on straight sections the wing wheels would not touch at all.

This allowed the vehicle to be a motorcycle and not a car.