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no help huh?
I see two options.
A) High tech solar powered battery-toting low-riding aerodynamic SOB. Advantages: very cool, very slick. Disadvantages: expensive. Very very much so. And slower than internal combustion engines.
B) Heres what I would do (if it fit in the rules). I would buy a pickup or van, a really crappy old one. In the back I would put gas tanks so it could make the trip on one tank. In the drivers seat I would set it up so that it could be autonomous. Think that simpsons episode where Homer and Bart drive the 18 wheeler with the autopilot. You would probably want GPS in there, and you would want pretty sophisticated obsticle detection and road atlas software. Advantages: cheap. ghetto. if you were reckless you could set it up to go 100 mph +. It would be able to survive minor collisions with no work needed. would be really cool to see a truck driving itself. You would have lots of spare cargo space for fun systems like radio PA systems or a video recorder with thousands of hours of tape. Imagine pulling up with an 80's pickup on your trailer, unloading it around all those slick solar cars. You could have fun with the paint job, more so than with those solar ones cause its bigger, and you don't need solar cells on top.
Disadvantages: prone to breaking down (get it serviced before you convert it) ugly, loud, 'dirty.' possibility of running out of gas. Bad stuff if you hit someone/something at high speeds.
still. I say go with the 'convert-a-beater' method. It would be more fun. You could even make it look like a humanoid, or an alien or something is driving. heh.
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