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New Lotus ice ski buggy, built to cross Antarctica
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

The sports car manufacturer Lotus has unveiled its latest creation - a propeller-powered ski buggy. The buggy has been developed by a former Formula One chassis designer, and can withstand temperatures as low as -72C. It can travel up to 84mph, and runs on biofuel, so is environment friendly. It's going to be used in a bid to trek 3,000 miles across Antarctica to the South Pole by two explorers, who want to highlight the importance of the ice caps to planet Earth. ...The buggy has a radar to detect dangerous crevasses under the ice and only weighs 350kg, which will allow the crew to pull it by hand over bumpy areas.

Sources: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1051234/The-new-ice-cool-Lotus-ski-buggy-cross-Antarctica--harming-planet.html and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2008/09/01/mnbuggy101.xml
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

There is nothing friendly about biofuels.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

I bet it breaks down.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4648449.ece
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Mosha Marc wrote:
I bet it breaks down.


Why Puzzled
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Because Lotus stands for Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious

Fall Line Media's stand on adventurers heading out over the ice caps is unequivocal. You shouldn't be there. Anyone who hasn't heard about how fragile they are by now isn't worth telling. We are approached frequently by people looking for publicity about their stupid polar stunts. How they need rifles to shoot the polar bears who will attack them, or satphones to get them out of trouble, or some other idiotic device which imposes upon a remaining fragile environment.

Impress us all by swimming there and doing the whole thing naked and unsupported - otherwise get your Darwin Award somewhere else.
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by two explorers, who want to highlight the importance of the ice caps to planet Earth.

who do they think they are kidding? I hope they're not going to ask for sponsorship, like those people who ask you to "sponsor them" doing something they really fancy doing, on the basis that it's "for charity". Load of old cobblers. How even the Mail can claim that this doesn't "harm the planet" is beyond belief.
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!

fallliner,

A previous boss had an old Lotus that always ended up being towed back. We thought Lotus stood for "Loads of Trouble Usually Stationary" - he might as well have bought an Alfa Romeo.
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DB, Both much better now. Well, at least the Lotus wink

But I wonder how the machine will cope with rough ice and pressure ridges ?
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david@mediacopy wrote:
DB, Both much better now. Well, at least the Lotus wink



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