Smaller cars
September 1, 2005 8:45 AM   Subscribe

High petrol prices force smaller cars - Not sure if this is serious or a photoshop trick. It looks good, and may be real: The mini community has a long history of making "shortys".
posted by SharQ (33 comments total)
 
tee hee hee! : )
posted by celerystick at 8:46 AM on September 1, 2005


Yeah, because nothing says "serious" or "real" quite like "More funny crap like this at www.skoopy.com"
posted by MaxVonCretin at 8:48 AM on September 1, 2005


those are photoshops or called "photochops" in the online auto world.
posted by delmoi at 8:50 AM on September 1, 2005


There wouldn't be sufficient room in the passenger compartment of any of those cars for average human legs.

So, it must be dwarves with mid-life crises driving them.
posted by CynicalKnight at 8:52 AM on September 1, 2005


......and may be real

Hey, if it is on the internet, it has to be true. Right?

Funny link.
posted by lampshade at 8:55 AM on September 1, 2005


not a chance they are real - see that silver sporty car, second down. Unless it's an amputee driving of course. In which case, Brilliant!!! where can I get my legs chopped off to have a test drive?
posted by twistedonion at 8:56 AM on September 1, 2005



not a chance they are real - see that silver sporty car, second down. Unless it's an amputee driving of course.


Or a rear-engine car. But of course it's fake.
posted by delmoi at 9:00 AM on September 1, 2005


Teehee, I know, but look at the minis! They are real enough.

Some pretty darn good photoshop edits, though.
posted by SharQ at 9:02 AM on September 1, 2005


A large proportion appeared on b3ta some time back.
posted by NinjaPirate at 9:02 AM on September 1, 2005


I can assure you it is a photoshop trick.
posted by StarForce5 at 9:04 AM on September 1, 2005


A close look at the rocks in the background of the first picture reveals patterns and other artifacts of the cloning brush.
posted by TheNakedPixel at 9:04 AM on September 1, 2005


Or a rear-engine car

doh! There's me trying to be smart and all.
posted by twistedonion at 9:08 AM on September 1, 2005


What is reality? On the Internet, it can be everything, and nothing, all at once...
posted by Lord Kinbote at 9:21 AM on September 1, 2005


"Ass" and "crap" are my two favorite words. Any page that includes them both merits a quick and decisive Crtl-D.

Or is that Ctrl-W? I sometimes confuse those.
posted by gramschmidt at 9:31 AM on September 1, 2005


Yeah, gotta be fake; would have heard something from the auto-makers, and if it had been someone else, then they would have been sued back into the Stone Age.

Still, aren't electric engines much smaller than petrol engines? It would be possible to construct something like that then.
posted by cleverusername at 9:37 AM on September 1, 2005


Some pretty darn good photoshop edits, though.
Unless you try to follow the door panel seams, which blur to nothing at the wheels - a dead giveaway.

Still, these images are cute. They remind me of my childhood imaginings of driving my toy cars around the carpet and up the wall.
posted by Popular Ethics at 9:41 AM on September 1, 2005


Damn, those are the coolest go-karts I've ever seen. Its nice that they made them for those double amputees to drive without their legs and all too.

Nicely done photoshop work! Who wouldn't want a pocket Porsche?
posted by fenriq at 9:54 AM on September 1, 2005


While in Germany a few years ago I saw something called the SmartCar, which actually looked a little like an "SUV" version of these. Besides the low mileage, the advantage of the SmartCar was that one could park it facing the curb without the rear end sticking out on the street. About three of them would fit where one standard car would.
posted by Wylie Kyoto at 10:02 AM on September 1, 2005


These are okay. Add a hairy green arm waving a gearshift on top and make the drivers' eyes all buggy. Then we'd have something to trade.
posted by hal9k at 10:02 AM on September 1, 2005


So, if you stroke one of these little fellas the right way, do you end up with a full sized car?
posted by fenriq at 10:11 AM on September 1, 2005


Here's what my browser says:

Access denied. The requested URL belongs to the following category: Pornography.

I don't know what sort of cars those were, but...
posted by Pollomacho at 10:26 AM on September 1, 2005


Wylie Kyoto: one of these?
posted by snarfodox at 10:37 AM on September 1, 2005


Whether or not those are real, this one is.
posted by QuietDesperation at 10:56 AM on September 1, 2005


Whoop! Clown cars!
posted by Artw at 11:07 AM on September 1, 2005


La DS (Gabriel Orozco). video here.
posted by eddydamascene at 12:00 PM on September 1, 2005


AWESOME! good post.
posted by tomplus2 at 1:55 PM on September 1, 2005


A friend of mine just mentioned Smart cars to me last night after getting back from Europe.
posted by adzm at 2:36 PM on September 1, 2005


It's a photoshop hack, and a repost to boot.

I just don't have the time to look for the original.

Actually, strike that. I'm too lazy to look for the original.
posted by craven_morhead at 3:07 PM on September 1, 2005


They're fakes, or they were real cars until someone photo-chopped them. I'm a car fanatic so here goes, from top to bottom: A new Audi SUV, Porsche Carrera GT, Porsche 911 Carrera (with TechArt upgrades), Corvette, Laborghini Diablo, Ferrari 360 Modena.

The Lambo has a 5.7 liter V12, hardly a fuel efficent vehicle.
posted by disgruntled at 3:41 PM on September 1, 2005


The page installs spyware, too! Something AdAware doesn't yet block, though it found it and with some struggle got rid of it.
posted by hank at 3:46 PM on September 1, 2005


This is what Jesus would drive
posted by Hands of Manos at 3:52 PM on September 1, 2005



The world's smallest passenger car—no joke—the Peel P50.
posted by cenoxo at 6:40 PM on September 1, 2005


And here's a nice little alternative energy vehicle for younger drivers: the all-electric Porsche Spyder.
posted by cenoxo at 9:27 PM on September 1, 2005


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