Can't identify weird new vehicle I've seen locally

[MR2 Fan]

maybe with some hints, someone can tell me what it is.

It's about the size of a bus, but taller and more rounded, with a super high "waistline" at the top of the doors. It looks a bit like a Chevy HHR was inflated to about 3x the size, but short in the front.

I've seen a silver one and another one as a taxi or something.

Any ideas?

[Random]

Nissan NV?

[Jason]

I knew the answer this a few months ago, seen them in DC a couple times as well, if we're thinking the same thing.


Edit:

http://www.mv-1.us/

This by chance?

[thesameguy]

If it's an MV1, I would have gone with "derpy Element" rather than "3x HHR." :lol:

[speedpimp]

The MV-1 is made at the AM General plant in Mishawaka, IN on the same line where the H2 was built. The same plant also builds the MB R-class for export.

[MR2 Fan]

yep, The MV-1 that's it, interesting

[Crazed_Insanity]

Yeah, I thought the mv1 looks like an Oversized Element too...

[MR2 Fan]

Well yeah, now that I can see it more clearly :p

Anyway, I'm seriously questioning why they wanted to design it to look, as Jeremy Clarkson would call it....special needs.

Surely they could have come up with a much better looking design while still keeping the usefulness aspect.

[FaultyMario]

Because parts bin?

[speedpimp]

Earliest prototypes had a 4.3 GM V6. They evolved to a Ford 4.6 and now to the Ford 3.7.

[21Kid]

There are tons of those used as Taxis in Chicago. That wheel gap. :o

[Jason]

"Potholes hate them them!"