Your take makes perfect sense ... from an American perspective.

I can only see them charging from the passenger side- it even seems to store the charging cable in the passenger side door frame?

Vehicle classification is mostly regulated at the EU level now. The Ami is an L7e Heavy Quadricycle.

Look closely, and you’ll see why those doors open in different directions: they’re identical. You can take the driver door out, and mount it straight into the passenger door frame.

425kg (936lb).

If I were Renault, I’d market the hell out of that Voiturette. All they need is a properly enclosed Twizy ‘Type B’ that pays tasteful homage to this one.

Point of order; the latest Zoe has a range of 250 miles (WLTP), and costs about as much as a cooking Golf. It’s smaller, though: about the size of a Fiesta, Fit or Yaris.

That’s a long wheelbase Prestige, which has all the fancy and the pants, but I think I’d still prefer the regular sedan.

I’m not gonna kink shame, but that could have done with a NSFW warning.

Aluminium corroding doesn’t normally have the same result as steel corroding, but that will depend on the particular alloy, and also whether there is any galvanic corrosion.

Shared parts are a fun aspect of my 924S.

You described one significant reason I lust after an Alpine A110 more than a Porsche 917: the Alpine is all aluminium. Same again for the carbon and aluminium BMW i3.

I’ll bet it was a Dutch brochure. Not just because those seem to pop up on this site all the time, but also because the R4 was known as the “doghouse” in Dutch.

Transaxle first had been common since the Citroën Traction Avant, which was the first mass produced FWD unibody family car.

The ad copy makes a pointed reference to being ‘a real car’ with four seats and a hatch. Pretty sure that contemporaries would pick up on the shade.

Meanwhile, in Britain, folk were already enjoying their outta-this-world Anglia 105Es

Oh, shush. We don’t want everybody to known that the US car industry has been making basically the same thing since 1932.

What does Jaguar use for their engine mounts- cheese!?

Let’s not kid ourselves

My little 33 year old hooptie does all of things that gadget does right out of the box. Are we really making progress here?