Suzuki Swift GTi - https://www.carsguide.com.au/suzuki/swift/price/1997/gti

Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion car.

Any Edsel.

Fiat Multipla.

Oscar Meyer Weinermobile.

Chevy SSR

Isuzu VehiCross

So, puzzle me this. At this price, I’m assuming that this would be more of a daily driver than a weekend show trailer queen, so how would one insure it? Find parts and a mechanic to work on it? While it looks to be “fun”, and it would certainly be “unique”, it still comes down to ND, for me.

Chevy used coil springs on their pickups back in the 1960s (yeah, I’m old)!

I guess that Rhode Island doesn’t (or won’t be) allow(ing) other types of “Low-Speed Vehicles” (golf carts) on their roads?

. . . or Vermont.

Ummm . . . Rhode Island is not an island. It’s contiguous with Massachusetts and Connecticut!

Identify a “problem”, pass another law, rarely enforce it, “problem solved”!

As EVs gain market share, this will become less of an issue - no internal combustion engine = no idling. And, as automatic start-stop becomes more common, there will also be less idling. It seems like technology and market trends are already solving “the problem”.

All Cobras look like that.

While mobile devices/”smart” phones are one obvious problem, I’ll argue that the ever-increasing size of “light” trucks is another, along with the ever-thicker “A” pillars, in all vehicles. Too many drivers simply aren’t looking and/or can’t see where they’re going, and, surprise, they end up crashing!

BMW i3? The first affordable, mainstream car with a carbon fiber chassis.

Based on that Twitter video, it looks like the truck went completely through one apartment and out the other side, before stopping partially inside the apartment across the courtyard!

Modified mobility vehicles, by definition, are never cheap, so this is likely a NP. Unfortunately, it will only appeal to a limited subset of a limited market, since it can’t be operated by someone with a disability (unlike many other conversions). And while the gull wing door is cool (and preserves the back seat), an…

The Tacoma’s reputation was built on its single-cab, four-cylinder, can’t-be-killed basic models. The current V-6, bloated crew-cab models bear little resemblance to that legacy.