I am truly sorry if the information below sounds idiotic.
I was thinking we could have vehicles to roam with around the clockworks. You could pick only one to take with ( for example you either pick a sprite or a vehicle). Maybe first a knight could start out with a hover-board and level it up as he/she progresses. The vehicles, if needed, could have special powers that can be used, kind of like the sprites ( Example: a vehicle could shoot it's own side-guns at the enemy or at a space its directly facing at). Anyway I know this wouldn't come out soon even if taken into consideration because of all the new updates coming and also Spiral Knights are " Opening up a bigger picture" but I'd really like to see a vehicle of some kind in the future dates of SK.
How about no? I'm sorry but any thing that would just make the game more of a "normal" MMORPG is a bad thing at this point. Every single MMORPG that can does have mounts or some sort, weather it is a pig or a car. The only reason to ever have vehicles would be fore missions on the surface of cradle but we have no reasons for those any way so -10042.