Does it come with a cutter deck?
This is probably a great little car for people who live and work in the same metropolitain area, in a warm climate, and never travel on the freeway (or who have always wanted to take the vehicle they drove in right onto the golf course as a cart).
In about two months, my 20 minute commute will be marked by regular snow causing low visibility, fiercely blowing winds, snow covered roads that are sometimes barely passable, and ice.
In that environment, this little toy would be like a ball in pinball machine on the interstate on my way to work. I can’t imagine it has any weight to develop traction (to both go and stop), it’s certainly going to get tossed around by the wind, and its going to essentially be invisible to other drivers unless it has a bright flashing beacon atop its roof. Not to mention, it probably folds like an accordion.
No thanks. I’ll burn a few extra dead dinosaurs and survive until spring.
“This is probably a great little car for people who live and work in the same metropolitain area”
I guess I can agree with that...except I still wouldn’t pay $17K for it.
I've seen these haul pretty fast on the Autobahn.
A lady I work with has one. She gets fantastic mileage with it - over 40 mpg in mostly city use. She has also taken it on at least one long trip, down to Tenessee from here, the Toronto area. I regularly see them out on the highway where they manage 75-80 mph, and apparently would go even faster if not electronically limited. She drives it in the winter here, too, and it works surprisingly well - the engine is in the rear over the rear axle. They’re also fairly tall for their size so aren’t quite as invisible in traffic as you might think.
As far as crash safety goes, it has a very rigid safety cage built into its structure - the major thing it lacks is the room for any sizable crush zone to absorb impacts. It has very good seats, airbags, and seatbelts, however.
It’s not what I would choose to buy and drive, but I can see where it fills a niche for some people.