The smallest car (7 photos)

The smallest car Peel P50 was released in England in 1962. It was designed on the basis of - "one man and one bagĀ» ...
The machine housed only the driver and with his 49-cc engine was accelerated to 64 kilometers per hour.





Work on the car turned around in 1961, and a year later the London Motor Show surprise visitors crowded around a tiny one-eyed monster.



Its length is 134 cm, width - 99 cm.



Interestingly, in the transmission of this machine was not reversing. But this was not a problem.

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Weighing in at 59 kilos in the car - the body was made of fiberglass - it can be easily deployed at the site, simply by lifting one of the sides of the bumper.



Peel P50 is listed in the Guinness Book as the world's smallest car, legally admitted to the roads.



Alas, the company produced only a hundred of these machines - people did not want to go to unsightly boxes, even if they are inexpensive. Business failed. At nearly Pocket car no one wanted to look serious.



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