BMW 3-wheeler

[rogwild]

This is from the German site "Auto Bild". Looks like a concept 'Trike', non-tilter. Maybe someone with a better understanding of German can provide more info.
http://tinyurl.com/2c5ec8

[smoove7410]

I like it. Reminds me of a smart car mixed with a bmw motorcycle.

[Bladerunner]

Problem is with out tilting it is another fancy trike... if you ever drove one you would see that it has the worse part of motorcycles and the worse part of cars.
It is pretty though...

[smoove7410]

VV needs to put bigger wheels and tires in the rear. Look how much better it looks with proportional tires.....same size front and rear.

[Bladerunner]

I think the Q100 has bigger wheels and tires but I doubt that front and back are going to be the same size.
It's a matter of taste and to me the different sizes if they have cool looking wheels and fit in the general manner of the bike/car it won't be a detriment. But that is why Baskin Robbins has so many different flavors.

Also so 2D and in your face 3D (not on a flat paper) can give a whole different look because of what your looking at and from where you are looking from. I think that is why Ian is going for the 100% foam model.

[Derwin]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the FRONT and REAR tires were the SAME size in the most recent survey. Remember the A and B versions?

[Bladerunner]

http://flytheroadclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148

Don't think so ... looks like close but slightly smaller and wider. Hard to say in a picture though... shadows and perspective and such.

[Derwin]

bladerunner,

Welcome to the club! I hope you enjoy the activity and the many new features that will be coming soon.

Yeah, I think you are correct. The front tire looks thinner and larger than the rear tires.

I think I should check with AZEqualizer about this. He would probably know the details better than me.



Derwin

[AZEqualizer]

Blowing up the new survey designs and changing the contrast in Photoshop shows the rear slightly smaller and much wider than the front. I think the survey ones are much closer in size (front to back) than the Newest C & D concepts and not so dramatically different as we have seen before. Of course this can all change with concept design refinements and windtunnel testing forcing design changes, plus finding appropriate tires since is seems that Vv may have to do a custom cast design to have the front and back rims match. From Ian's post we know that the wheels are a "cycle (front) and car rims (rear)." The BMW appears to be same size diameter both front and back.

Another thing is we don't know how accurate the designs for the survey are since we have little information from Vv about it.

[Miracleman89]

well I used a google page translator and learned little about this three wheeled vehicle. The article spoke more about the bmw company and where they are headed. You can check it out yourself. It is a bit hard to understand becuase it is a direct translation so the format of the writing makes it a bit choppy! but here is the link with translation!

http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autobild.de%2Fartikel %2FThemen-Erlkoenige-Laesst-BMW-die-Kugel-wieder-rollen-_458027.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8