World's smallest car

[bravekozak]

And you thought the Festiva was small!

Check out the P50.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07ub5rBdrE4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKq-CwLCWd8&feature=related

[batstiva]

OMG, did he just pull start that thing?? :shock:

[gestiva]

I saw that on a show called "Top Gear"
I would (try) to drive one. lol

[wybnrml]

I saw that on a show called "Top Gear"

Yeah, I remember seeing that episode. Here is a link to the "Top Gear" episode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJfSS0ZXYdo

[Teresa]

A car that you wear! Would they even be street legal in the US?

[lessersivad]

Not near as small, but a friend of mine used to have one of these....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPdjSsUjd5s

Used to drive it around the farm. Never did get it road legal.

[TominMO]

I had one of these....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OSFUC3-ars

It had an electric toggle-switch thingy on the dash as a shifter. Two-cylinder air-cooled rear motor, 300cc. The front end was so light that I could lift it over my head.

A Wikipedia report sez it was tested, with these results:
A TS300 coupé tested by the British magazine The Motor in 1957 had a top speed of 59.2 mph (95.3 km/h) and could accelerate from 0-50 mph (80 km/h) in 27.9 seconds. A fuel consumption of 50.5 miles per imperial gallon was recorded. The test car cost £625 including taxes of £209 on the UK market.

[AlaskaFestivaGuy]

I used to have one of these, an Italian "suitcase" moped. It weighed 72 lbs. and collapsed into an airline-checkable bag -- back pre-9/11 when when 72 lbs. wasn't "overweight" and you could take already-run internal combustion engines with you. It has an automatic (using "cones" and belts) infinite-ratio transmission with chain final drive. You just twist the throttle to the max and it smoothly shifts, even going up a 40 degree grade (slowly) or up to about 35mph on the flat. I say "about" b/c the speedo pegged at about 30mph. Don't try taking even one hand off the handlebar to answer your cellphone -- it's squirrelly at high speed on those small wheels.

It even ran on 80/87 or 100/130 octane avgas when I landed at some remote dirt strip with no facilities, using fuel drained out of the airplane.

Here are some pictures I took motoring around SW Iceland. I also took it to New Zealand to use when I landed a rental Piper Cherokee 140 that I picked up in Christchurch in remote places across the Alps on the South Island's "West Coast."

You can buy them new from the U.S. distributor at DiBlasi.com for about $2K. Should fit easily in the "baggage" area of a Festy.

[AlaskaFestivaGuy]

Here's a "local" I met near the village of Gulfoss, about 100km outside Reykjavik. Notice the classy winter coat. This was in late September.

[AlaskaFestivaGuy]

The video on the main page of www.microcar.org says there's a micro-car museum containing 200 differernt models about an hour east of Atlanta and has some views of the main display area.

[AlaskaFestivaGuy]

Here's a link to the microcar museum near ATL.

http://www.microcarmuseum.com/info.html

Looks awesome.

[Mctiva]

I personally dig that arola

[gestiva]

Need to make a trip there^ Sparky was telling me about that place a while back.