Troubled General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) has debuted its project to save the company.
It's a joint project with Dean Kamen's Segway Inc. to make a street-legal electric scooter called Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility, or PUMA (pictured below), that can zip around for an hour at a top speed of 35 miles per hour. So if you thought Daimler AG's SMART ForTwo was just too big (or fast) for you, and a Segway was just too small, then PUMA may be your porridge.
However, odds are New Yorkers (and the rest of the world) will likely never again see the PUMA once the New York International Auto Show leaves town. If GM ever brings it to market, the PUMA could be as big a hit as the company's Pontiac Aztek.
- Matthew Wurtzel
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