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eric on Aug 27th 2009 Motorscooters

Stupid cars make it easier to spot the douchebags

Ever been driving down some street and wonder if the guy next to you is a complete douchebag? Sure, we all have. Unless they’re speed walking or riding a recumbent bike, it’s pretty hard to tell… until now.

Douchemobile!Thanks to Myers Motors, this task has been completely simplified!

The NgM, a three-wheeled enclosed “motorcycle,” bills itself Globally Cool Transportation. Though it’s neither global nor cool, it is transportation and technically, it is a motorcycle, so I’m at least a little interested in it.

Haha! Just kidding. Look at this thing. It looks like something from a crappy movie-adaptation of a Dr. Seuss book.

On the technical side, it’s all electric and goes 75mph. Most electric cars only do about half that (which is amazingly impractical). That’s all pretty nifty, except that it only seats one and costs $30,000.

I’ve seen a few of these around Seattle. I guess I should be thankful that it’s now even easier to play spot-the-D-bag, but really, it’s just sad.

UghIf you own one of these things, that very literally means that you had an extra $30,000 just lying around just waiting for you to make a very unfortunate transportation decision.

That’s right, NgM owners, I’m dissin your crappy bike. I ride a Vespa and I’m trash talking your ride. How does that make you feel (aside from a complete douchebag)?

But I guess the NgM really isn’t marketed to me, a poor guy who isn’t really all that excited about overpriced cars. This is marketed to people who want to pretend that buying a $30,000 chunk of newly manufactured plastic, steel and lithium is the “green” thing to do.

Why not just buy a motorcycle or scooter or a 1991 Geo Metro and use the extra $27,000 to do literally anything else in the world that isn’t buying an NgM.

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