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This is a one horsepower vehicle. Literally. Get it?! It has a horse inside powering it, meaning it is literally powered by one horse! One horsepower! Do you get it? Hold on, let me explain more clearly for you.
It's called the Naturmobil, and it was built by Abdolhadi Mirhejazi of Dubai. Yes, it has a horse on a treadmill inside which powers the car. But it also has a battery, which the horse powers while it walks and that can take over the power when that poor horse gets tired, with enough energy left over to power a couple of LCD screens on the side of the vehicle. Because what good is a crazy contraption like this if you can't slap a couple of ads on the side?
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By Complete Prat at 12:59 PM ON 05/05/08
Why doesnt he just ride the horse? The vehicle seems so basic that there is no advantage having it.
By Nimitz at 2:10 PM ON 05/05/08
So what prods the horse to start walking or running? A "throttle" made of cable and vise grips attached to various part of the horse's anatomy?
Giddyup, Flicka! (squeeeeeze!) :-)
By ryback at 4:07 AM ON 05/06/08
Archer Quinn sent me schematics on a African-Swallow-powered aeroplane. He told me to hold on to them in case the New Zealand Communist Party gets to him before he can finish building it!