By the time the government gets it weighed down with all the required safety stuff, it won’t be cheap and it won’t be lightweight.
It looks like a Ford Bronco Mini-Me.
Be kinda cool if the hardtop would come off.
That’s an expensive golf cart!
I understand the spontaneous fires are much smaller . . .
Maybe get Hanoi Jane as the national spokesperson?
IOW, not a chance in hell.
save on funeral costs, when you get ran over by an 18 wheeler, you can be put in the ground in it.
If our social-engineering Fed.gov eliminated its various woke/prog mandates, US companies (unlikely it would be legacy producers Ford or GM) would produce cheap, safe and highly efficient cars that lasted for hundreds of thousands of miles.
I just got a renewal on my Driver’s License for 5 years. I will be 90, when my current license retires.
We are down to one car. My wife’s 20 year old Lexus, and it still runs great for the minimal driving we do.
If it dies, and there is no available good used vehicle from family, friends or neighbors to buy.
This might be a good option.
Ultra Cheap VinFast VF3 Mini EV Considered For U.S. Lineup: Report [Vietnamese]
Jalopnik on How The Cheapest Electric Car In The World Held Up After 1 Year
The Chinese Changli.
I’d need to see the NHTSA crash test videos first. The first gen of Chinese vehicles were LAUGHABLY bad.
For trips to the store, this might be perfect. (No freeways, etc.)
Picture Bob Parr of The Incredibles(2004) in his little blue car
should be fun to drive this toy, which has a wheelbase smaller than a sheet of plywood, on the Interstate at 85mph!
I am old enough to remember the Yugo.
The hype around this reminds me of that.
A private company making a small affordable EV for a niche market makes more sense than a government forcing them on an entire population .
It should be easy to parallel park.
The smallest Ford I could find is the Fiesta.
It is 160 inches long vs 122 inches for the Vietnamese car. That is 3 feet shorter.
Doubles as a coffin when a pick up hits you.
The only way I’d get away with driving 25mph around here is if I were driving a combine.