May 16 2009What The World's Smallest Car Looks Like
This is what the world's smallest (but not the lowest) street-legal car looks like. Because this is the world's smallest street-legal car. I don't know if you understand logic, but my argument is infallible. The car, which measures a scant 39" high x 26" wide, is allegedly twice as small as the last record holder.
Car modder Perry Watkins took the frame of the "Postman Pat" children's ride and mounted it on a quad mini-bike, using its 150cc engine. The car features a windshield wiper, lights and signals, mirrors, and even a Pimp My Ride-worthy paint job and fake racing exhaust pipes. The car, christened "The Wind-Up," can hit 40 miles per hour in what we're sure is an incredibly uncomfortable and scary ride.
Good looking, Perry. And you know what they say about guys who drive really small cars don't you? Serious neck and back problems. Kidding, kidding -- monster junk.
Hit the jump for a short video about the build and some driving footage.
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Reader Comments
1. Christina - May 16, 2009 8:11 PM
first
2. jessyb - May 16, 2009 8:14 PM
pimp my mini ride
3. Boost - May 16, 2009 8:23 PM
The actual wind-up on the back makes that 1000x cooler.
I salute you, tiny car maker.
4. t('.'t) - May 16, 2009 8:24 PM
Last!
5. Troy - May 16, 2009 8:31 PM
Not complete without one of these
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6. jimmy - May 16, 2009 8:57 PM
hey guys, on the next post, dont comment till I comment. I want to get a first. thank you
7. Ian - May 16, 2009 8:59 PM
This is awesome totally shows up the smart car.
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8. so0pa - May 16, 2009 9:02 PM
wtf is wrong with them? why isn't a midget in that thing?
9. Honky Magoo - May 16, 2009 9:05 PM
@8 Second. Now that you mention it, not enough midgets on this site period. I mean, lots of tiny things, but no tiny people?
10. SlowMonkey - May 16, 2009 9:09 PM
Like it wouldn't be bad enough getting run over by another car because they can't see you but to LAUNCH YOURSELF AT THEM AT 40MPH means they will have to scrape some DNA off the pavement to find out which douchebag you were.
Unless, of course, you stick to the sidewalks all the way to work and have plenty of Valium for the muscle cramps, and then it makes perfect sense.
11. blahblahblah - May 16, 2009 9:36 PM
zomglolwtfbbq thats exactly what i need for my cross country road trip =D
12. Peter - May 16, 2009 9:36 PM
Does anyone watch top gear? They had a tiny car on there. I think it was electrical but might have been gas powered I don't remember. Either way, that didn't look twice as big as this.. It looked about the same size. It fit in an office elevator lol
13. Sprouting Sprouts - May 16, 2009 9:54 PM
I want to see mini me drive that.
14. actual size - May 17, 2009 2:00 AM
@8&9 a midget would be cool but a dude over 6 foot struggling to fit would be even better
15. Amaranth - May 17, 2009 2:12 AM
@13 I 2nd that lmao
16. tangelax - May 17, 2009 2:33 AM
@ 12
That was the peel p50, hard to get your hands on one, I wanted to get one.
17. Aids - May 17, 2009 2:56 AM
Wheres Crusty?
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18. Dr.Freak - May 17, 2009 6:00 AM
I like how it's only just wide enough to fit the number plate on it :)
19. Megan the Love Fairy - May 17, 2009 6:04 AM
Wow, you can give yourself a blow job in that car.....
20. Carl - May 17, 2009 6:56 AM
I'm sure the Peel P50 is smaller?
21. Jaded Icon - May 17, 2009 7:51 AM
Finally, I can die in peace because this car is out there in the real world instead of my dreams.......
22. Nero - May 17, 2009 9:05 AM
Cute! But you get out this car hunchbacked!
23. reptilard - May 17, 2009 9:48 AM
Too small to be furious,
I wanna see that thing drivting and making burn outs
24. Captain - May 17, 2009 10:08 AM
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25. Watch-303 - May 17, 2009 10:26 AM
wow, thats small.
26. naas - May 17, 2009 10:56 AM
I was in a helicopter that small once, even had to get a picture of it just for proof. It was a comfortable ride & a great flight
27. poopycakes - May 17, 2009 11:01 AM
are we looking at the world's smallest car? or the world's biggest idiot?
28. NORM - May 17, 2009 11:19 AM
this isnt even a "car". its a friggin' car looking body on a mini quad.
what a disappointment.
oh well, i hope at least the wind up handle on the back turns as it runs, thatd be sweet.
29. bob - May 17, 2009 12:50 PM
too bad this car would be illegal on us streets
gardening fail, gardener have some sense of humor
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30. Daisy - May 17, 2009 1:34 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie NEver BAck Down where MAx got a job driving the pope's limousine. The pope said - Max, I never get to drive, do you think I could drive this for once? So max switched seats with him, and when the pope took the car out, he got pulled over for speeding.
When the cop got back to his car, the cop's partner asked who was in the limo. The cop said - I don't know, but he must be important, the pope is his chauffeur.
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32. kazuya - May 18, 2009 6:51 AM
Why even put a roof on that thing? Make it a convertible, and keep the top down. At least then you can drive without your crotch in your face.
33. Jaded Icon - May 18, 2009 7:02 AM
@ 32
You have a good point.
34. TE - May 18, 2009 12:18 PM
If I'm ever in a head-on collision, I want it to be with one of these things.
35. Captain - May 19, 2009 11:00 AM
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36. tahrey - September 9, 2009 2:49 PM
@10 --- I can only offer the same argument I did with my mother on getting myself a motorbike (to combat the equivalent of $6+ per USGal fuel costs)... Sure I could ride a push cycle (if I had all day), but if I'm going to mix it with other traffic on an inherently unstable machine with my body as the crumple zone, I'd much prefer to be doing it at the same speed and with some bulk/bright lights for visibility instead of being continually overtaken, or going un-noticed at junctions. (Not to mention the near-car-spec lights and tyres). Riding in that thing, you're not launching yourself at other traffic, any more than you would in a full size car - you're keeping pace with it instead.
@30 --- you DID go and WATCH the VIDEO, right?
Also given the locations mentioned, this was probably on my own local tv news (at a time I wasn't watching). Certainly the theme park it was being exhibited at is only about 10 miles away, so they're not making up placenames. Might even see it running around the roads if it's still licensed and I head out that way.
I'm rather dubious on it being "half the size" of a Peel (if that _was_ the previous record holder), though. Unless they mean by total volume, in which case it only needs to be a little under 80% of the size in each dimension. The Peel's certainly taller, but I don't think significantly longer or wider. I'm also not sure if it particularly classes as a "car" (under UK/EU law) any more than the Peel, G-Wiz or Reliant Robin do - they're "light quadricycles" (or tricycles), which this would certainly class as, being a quad chassis with a bit of fibreglass stuck on top. In which case I could wander down to the local Honda Motorcycles dealership later today, get myself a kiddies' 33cc quad, make a canopy for it from some thermoplastic roughly formed to my own body and the handlebars with a perspex-covered viewport cut into it around the eye area, and claim the title as my own. Though maybe this inconvenient bit of legistlation/classification doesn't count for the record attempt?
@35 --- nice try but these comments are already littered with mybrutes.