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1916 Bartsch Motorradwagen

 

You are right,,,,,it`s a Comet 1914-1915 with a H-D engine

 

Some adverts

 

Yes Europe was really excitting in that era.

 

You would think that there would be a come back with this sort of thing given all the environmental/ fuel costs issues.

 

I'd love to see more details of that "rotary engine".

 

http://www.pilotfriend.com/aero_engines/aero_macomber.htm

 

https://en.topwar.ru/77476-aksialnye-dvigateli-vnutrennego-sgoraniya-ug-makombera-ssha.html

 

Got that steampunk vibe. Lol!

 

Environmental issues are real but the mainstream response has been steered to a paradigm which serves to increase the prevailing capital investment threshold in manufacturing — even to the point of failing to address the environmental issues. Just about everything on this thread is 180° contrary to that paradigm, and therefore has to be outlawed.

 

Don't give up yet.

Patak Rodster. https://patakmotors.com/pages/rodster
I'd say things are looking up.
Mike

 

They lost me with the e word. It talks about combustion engine but doesn't give specs.

 

20bhp single, probably around 200-250cc, with boring CVT.

 

Thanks, I obviously missed that.

 

EV or gas we are loosing the fun of cars. Might as well take the bus.

 

https://carbuzz.com/news/patak-rodster-is-the-coolest-microcar-money-can-buy/
I may have to eat my words. I kind of like this but I have always liked small cars.

 

I regard the automobile as having become extinct around 1990.

 

I heard that no US manufacturer is building a gas powered sedan anymore.

 

That MAY change in Jan.

 

similar to RUMPLER....

 

The corporate agenda drives the politics, not the other way round. Our kind of cars are dead because they aren't what the industry wants made. They are a threat to the desired radical monopoly.

 

That was an interesting read. It has long been recognized that Detroit sells us what it wants to make not what we want to buy. The import market made that point quite clear.

 

Caption: The starting line at the Grand Prix de L'ACF des Cyclecars, Amiens, France, 1913. In car number 25 is J Ronteix, in car number 26 is Jolibois, and in car number 27 Francis. Ronteix finished third, Jolibois seventh, Francis did not finish.

 

https://www.svvs.org/Morgan GP.shtml

 

The Violet-Bogey driven at Le Mans 1913 (Grand Prix de l'UMF. des Cyclecars) by Marcel Violet, who finished second.

 

1913 Violet-Bogey