You know what happens when Daffy Duck gets caught in the gigantic steel press and gets squashed flatter than a dime? The Commuter Cars Tango looks something like that. At 69 in. long and 29 in. wide, the Tango has anorexic proportions, with a jumbo-sized price tag of over $100,000, at least for now. But shape is function. The Tango is the perfect urban car thinner than a motorcycle, it takes up one-quarter of a normal parking spot. It can hit 0-60 mph in 4 seconds, with a top speed of 150 mph, 10 times as fast as the old Columbia Mark LX Electric Runabout. And let's not forget the most salient fact: George Clooney, who helped promote the two-seater Tango when it was launched in 2005, is apparently a fan.
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