[Gorzaloon]

It would be easy to park. You could fit that thing into any space!

Well, yes, but under the wheels of a Hummer might be one of the spaces. We saw some really goofy little things in France that were about this size, and wondered about survivability.

[VRWCisme]

Yes, I am always bemused by the tiny little cars when I'm in Europe, as well. I wouldn't drive one and the safety issues (not to mention appearance and lack of space for passengers) would bother me. But the one benefit would be parking, which I guess was one of the reasons people in crowded European cities with narrow streets and scarce parking were first attracted to the little things.

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[antiRepublicrat]

We saw some really goofy little things in France that were about this size, and wondered about survivability.

The goofy things in France are deathtraps. Some serious safety engineering went into these cars, making them as safe as your standard compact car here.

[JayB]

While I agree with most that this looks ridiculous, I did some reading on it before and noticed that they actually did a fair amount of work in survivability. The passengers are actually in a sturdy roll cage. The rest of the car is just a big crumple zone. So the passengers should survive the accidents the passengers of compact to mid-sized cars would survive. The car, however, might not do so well.

[sionnsar]

It would be easy to park. You could fit that thing into any space!

Many years ago I had a Honda 600 Coupe (a little bit larger than this, I think, but not much). Actually did park it underneath a semi trailer (no tractor) once -- for a few minutes' run into a store.