While its super-lightweight foam body construction gives it well over 100mpg fuel-efficiency, the Spira's biggest asset may be the safety it offers, both to occupants and other road users in the ...

The Spira three-wheeler is a unique vehicle. It's one of the finalists in the Automotive X-Prize but its frugal fuel consumption and low emissions are only part ...

In fact, 90 percent of the Spira's makeup is foam, which doesn't exactly give us loads of confidence about its ability to withstand major (or minor, really) impacts on the American freeway.

Back in the 1980s, Spira, now 50, was an unpaid publicist for Winfield and his charity, the Dave Winfield Foundation, as well as a lousy gambler who owed $100,000 to Mafia-connected bookies.