"Jim Spanfeller" (awesomeaustinv)
05/02/2020 at 01:31 • Filed to: Urrronngg
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"Jim Spanfeller" (awesomeaustinv)
05/02/2020 at 01:31 • Filed to: Urrronngg | 7
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It’s great and all, but it’s just a bit too large, don’t you think? Just a hair. A wee smidgen. But nevertheless too gargantuan for anyone with taste.
Introducing the Lannaud Naudal. Proof that the French have the answer to everything. Even if that answer is often “You’re wrong”. (Although you have to say it with your tongue pressed firmly to the roof of your mouth and with your lips tightly puckered so it sounds like “Urrrrrronngg”. Congratulations, you can now speak French.) Conceived by genious Frenchman Bernard Lannaud as a way to ERADICATE ALL PARKING PROBLEMS, the Naudal takes everything good about a Mini, saws it in half, chops out a good chunk of it, welds it back together, and calls it an improvement. If you disagree, urrrronngg.
Do you sometimes find yourself wishing that your car had mirrors on the rear pillars? Well, this car has (or at one point had ) two of them! Is that really necessary, you ask? Darn right it is! Urrrronngg.
It appears the car underwent a repaint at some point...
And as for storage, the Naudal not only features an excellent little hatch in its butt that you can stuff things in, but a very nice roof rack as well. With a roof rack, the sky’s the limit when it comes to packing! Those silly British buses get to be two stories tall without falling over, and this car’s much smaller and lighter than those, so logically it can get much taller than that! What? What do you mean you can’t make it as tall as a bus? Well, not with that attitude you can’t! Urrrronngg!
Bernard Lannaud drives this car regularly at speeds as high as 90 mph with a suitcase on the roof rack. He believes that since most people drive alone anyways, there is a place for cars like this on modern roads. He is fighting for authorities to treat the car like a motorcycle for parking purposes, and he has tried to propose the idea to several car companies with little success. He has taken to parking the car sideways in French parking spaces, both to demonstrate the shortness of the car and to try and generate parking tickets.
He figures he can gain publicity by battling all the courthouses over parking tickets. However, so far, the authorities have found the car too amusing to give it a parking ticket. Oh well.
Urrrronngg.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Jim Spanfeller
05/02/2020 at 01:37 |
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just don’t get rear ended in it.
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Jim Spanfeller
> pip bip - choose Corrour
05/02/2020 at 01:39 |
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Urrronngg.
RPM esq.
> Jim Spanfeller
05/02/2020 at 03:12 |
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This is all very French but I say the world can always use more Richard Scarry weird-ass vehicle proportions in the real world.
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Jim Spanfeller
05/02/2020 at 03:34 |
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Something tells me that getting a Toyota GT4 driveline into this would be a real challenge...
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Jim Spanfeller
05/02/2020 at 08:04 |
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The problem with the French is they don't have a word for entrepreneur. But I'd rather have this car than a Smart.
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> Jim Spanfeller
05/02/2020 at 08:06 |
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I mean, he’s not wrong, the current MINIs ARE too big.
That parking was supposed to be SMART’s big parlor trick but I’ve not once seen one parked that way.
SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> Jim Spanfeller
05/02/2020 at 08:50 |
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I’d bet this thing will “spin with in its own length”.
Ready for an adventure!
> pip bip - choose Corrour
05/02/2020 at 09:13 |
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Would that mean a head on collision? This thing is so short even physics can't tell it's front from its rear ..LOL
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> Ready for an adventure!
05/02/2020 at 09:18 |
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i suppose it would.
:D
Just Jeepin'
> Jim Spanfeller
05/02/2020 at 09:34 |
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Need to get this on Oppositeblog. Nice piece, fantastic car.
Got any interior photos?
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Jim Spanfeller
> Just Jeepin'
05/02/2020 at 09:59 |
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Thanks! Sadly, I don’t have any interior photos, or even very many photos of the car at all... However, from descriptions by those who’ve encountered and rode in it, I do know that it seats two, and that passengers recommend not looking behind you while on motorways because the fact that the car ends right behind your head can feel somewhat alarming if you’re no used to it...
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Jim Spanfeller
> SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
05/02/2020 at 10:01 |
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I dunno, he didn’t modify the front of the car, he just shortened the thing by chopping a large section out of the middle. But considering that it can already go 90 mph, I don’t think it really needs much more power...
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Jim Spanfeller
> RPM esq.
05/02/2020 at 10:03 |
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Man, I need to go read some Richard Scarry books so that I’ll know what everyone’s talking about... I must be the only one here who’s never read them...
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Jim Spanfeller
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
05/02/2020 at 10:05 |
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Snownuts in this thing would be an absolute hoot...
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Jim Spanfeller
> MiniGTI - now with XJ6
05/02/2020 at 10:08 |
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just-a-scratch
> Jim Spanfeller
05/02/2020 at 11:13 |
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I think you’ll get the idea without even needing to really read them.
https://www.richardscarry.com/