If cars are sucking too much gas, put them on a diet! Jane Fonda would have been proud of this car principle, but she might ignore that two German designers have been already applying it for over ten years. They have so well applied it that their put-on-a-diet imagination yielded in this stunning designed car: the Loremo.
Loremo, as in “low resistance mobile”, has a tiny stomach. It only needs 1.5 liter per 100 km, around 160 miles per gallon. Compared to other available cars on the market, it’s four to five fold lower, almost the same gas consumption than a Harley Davidson motorbike.
OK, readers, we know what you might think: This car is simply running on some fuel-cell battery or solar or wind turbine thing. And nay, it isn’t, the car is powered by a 2 cylinder Turbo Diesel engine that could go up to 160km/h.
So how? Uli Sommer, Stefan Ruetz and Gerhard Heilmaier, all three industrial designers, decided to use their domain expertise to reshape the mold of the car instead of pouring into it some top-notch eco-friendly technologies ― although a mix wouldn’t be bad. Here some for-instances:
They chopped off useless, extravagant accessories. The deep bucket seats are designed as simple plastic buckets with upholstery and covers. The dashboard is replaced by a simple instrument mushroom-shaped with a display.
They reallocated the car doors. Instead of four or three doors, their car only shows two of them. The front and the rear door, or we should say the roof and the rear door, as people enter the car by lifting the doors.
The great thing of Loremo is that inside security hasn’t been sacrificed to the weight and gas consumption priorities. Something related to the German culture of the Loremo fathers? Anyway, it passed the standard crash tests, and even hooked the staff of the Autosalon. So for the 2006 edition in Geneva, Switzerland, the slim and fast car was showcased next to the BMW or Kia new concept cars.
Chances are good to see the Loremo hit the mass consumer market pretty soon. Sommer, Ruetz and Heilmaier plan to sell it for less than €11,000 (around $13,000). And if you still find this car unfordable for your bank account, you could just imagine how much you would save on gas afterwards.
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