1944 Brogan Doodlebug

Only 10HP? It’s not likely to live very long with such a low amount of hit points.

It makes up for it with enough mana to keep a shield spell up indefinitely.

If you’re still worried, though, you can pair it with a Volvo for tanking and a Fiat 500 for nimble single target dps and flanking.

A Fiat 500? Glass cannon much?

Rogues often are 🤷

With an insane mana point gain rate or MPG of 70, your mana’s already full before the end of cool down.

With that many HP, who does Volvo? If you’re going to car on easy mode, just don’t car.

I doubt it even had AC

AC 0 ain’t what it used to be.

Back then it was called THAC0.

It’s fine! AGI is totally maxed out, so you’ll never land any hits.

Looks like if you ever hit a pebble on the road it would probably flip and kill you. Note also the conspicuous absence of a seat belt. Cute little death machine.

Did anything have a seatbelt in 1944?

Volvo filed a patent for some sort of seatbelt in 1889. SAAB became the first car company to make any sort of seatbelt standard in 1958. Volvo became the first car company to install modern 3 point belts as standard equipment in 1959.

So yes, but actually probably not.

So a patent existed prior, but that doesn’t mean they were made. SAAB made them standard 14 years after this car. Do with no other data, I’d say no and no.

Edit: just realized that reads like I’m being pissy, but that wasn’t the tone my finger was swiping with. Thanks for the data!

Gotta love those safety conscious Swedes showing the rest of the world how it’s done 😁❤️

Early seatbelt design

I like it. Why live with potentially life changing injuries, when you can simply have your neck broken by your seatbelt instead.

NO SHOT. That’s a joke, right?

As seen on The Onion News

No, that was before Ralph Nader made a whole ruckus about car safety (and rightly so). Still, we’re looking at this from the year 2024 so you can really tell this vehicle doesn’t make sense in our time.

I sometimes think about Ralph Nader, and the overall balance sheet of lives he is directly responsible for saving, vs lives that he is (I guess indirectly) responsible for ruining and/or ending due to spoiling the 2000 election.

Interesting thought experiment. I guess.

Velomobiles are a modern thing. Speed records are over 80kmh from human power only, but ebike motors can achieve that easily.

While most are not this “delta trike” format, and instead have 2 wheels in front, the stability is not crazy bad for deltas. Most are weather proof.

Preston Tucker designed his Tucker Torpedo with a safety belt (and a lot of other safety features) in 1948.

And then was driven out of business by the Big Three automakers in the U.S.

There’s a good movie about it.

Yeah but not instantly. It would drag you around the road grinding your meats and bones into a nice pasty consistency.

I mean, I could see a modern version being made with a rally harness-type restraint system and a windshield frame that doubles as a rollover bar. In this case the biggest danger would be to the driver’s limbs.

It’s almost a motorcycle. Something like this would be great for commuting, if not for all the Compensator™ Trucks and SUVs on the road.

I feel bad for driving a big SUV, but I needed something electric that was easy for my wife to get in and out of.

Any electric vehicle is high because of the batteries. That’s why so many are those awful looking crossovers. SUVs you have to climb into which would make them harder to get in and out of. So I don’t really follow your logic I’m afraid.

Perhaps I’m not being accurate. The VW ID.4 is easier for her to enter and exit than the GTI.

I totally get the need for tall vehicles that are easy for people to get in and out. Not everyone can lift themselves from a low seat in a modern sedan or coupe. Accessibility is important.

That’s a weird way to call your wife immensely obese.

An autoimmune disease destroyed her leg veins and it’s difficult for her to walk without pain.

Maybe think before being a jerk next time.

That last picture doesn’t look too bad

^^^

Even comes with a napping package

The long sleep in the great blue beyond

It only got two stars sadly

It’s basically an all terrain vehicle with a roof

That looks pretty fun. People are always driving around here in those Rhinos. They’re not street legal, but the cops don’t seem to care.

Ah yes, a scrotumnudger

Considering it was 1944, I’m just hoping they didn’t name it after this doodlebug, because that would have been pretty tasteless.

That said, probably not the best choice of names due to that.

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