I always thought the Morgan 3-Wheeler V-Twin hanging off the front was a nice touch.

White Walls!!!

So their system is essentially useless. Got it.

Beat me to it!

VANAGON! Of course!

Simple, inexpensive, room for the whole family, can (almost) keep up with traffic, rear-engine, manual transmission, quirky compared to the status quo. The Tata Nano fits the requirements.

Ford Nucleon.

Here's an idea... If you're a pedestrian actually look for cars and avoid them. You know, look up from your phone while you cross the street and see if any 2 ton hunks of metal are going to intersect your desired path before you proceed into traffic. This trend to absolve the individual from personal responsibility…

Well, then, can I have this? Pretty please?

Autozam AZ-1

I'm curious what will happen when it gets all emissionally compliant. Pffft?

You're probably right. But I drove the Freightliner towing the 60,000lb "RV" through West Texas anyway. Allegedly.

MINI!

Definitely "hippies" and not hipsters here. And it's not at all racist to call these guys hipsters as the term is race neutral.

THIS!

Yo, Dog...

OK, this goes the other way around but the CoBra engine was originally designed for generator use in WWII and Crosley used it for their cars. I seem to remember a Jalop article on that some time back.

Tatra!

The original VW Beetle. Always small, slow, ugly, basic, reliable(?) transportation.