Now Germany wants to crush the puny human cars, too.
If there is one car that makes those prices look puny, it is a flame-red Ferrari GTO that Bonhams & Brooks, a British auction house, is planning to put on the block this month in Gstaad, Switzerland.
The level of research and development by foreign car firms in India is still puny, but in time that should come too.What India does not seem to give foreign firms is a clear-cut cost arbitrage over other places in the world, despite its vast and cheap labour force.
BYD's first car, the $4,000 Flyer, features a puny 0.8-liter engine and a tinny door that shuts when it feels like it.
As we called friends, neighbors and family members to get their opinion (is any car decision ever made alone?), our problem looked pretty puny compared to the huge financial upset all around us.
There are a few drawbacks: The car's three-cylinder VTEC engine is a tad puny for the task of zipping from 0 to 60 in less than, oh, 10 seconds, and it has a slight tendency toward oversteer.
And with door openings that account for about 60percentt of the car's total length, the thought of being hit by even the puniest sport utility is disquieting.
The puny 151 pound-feet of peak torque at a screaming 6,400 r.p.m. keeps the cars from being forgiving when driven hard or easygoing when driven around town.
IS there a need for a new breed of tiny gas-free commuter cars that match the old stereotypes of electric vehicles -- that they are puny, plasticky and incapable of going very far?
Ford announced that it was re-tooling three North American truck plants to make compact European cars of a type once mocked by Americans for their paltry size and puny engine power.
