The world's smallest car

Based on a Postman Pat children's toy car is this compact vehicle, which has every chance to become the world's smallest street-legal car.

Smaller and more powerful than the classic Peel P50, this tiny vehicle is 129cm long, 66cm wide and 99cm tall, and is motivated by a 150cc four-stroke engine from an ATV.

The single-cylinder engine drives the rear wheels and the micro car can reach a top speed of around 40 miles per hour, or about 60km/h.

Built by 47-year-old Perry Watkins of the U.K. the vehicle has everything needed to be street legal in England: working headlights, brakelights, indicator lights and windscreen wipers.

Based on a Postman Pat ride-on toy, the vehicle's innards were removed and replaced by an ATV's running gear, while its fibreglass body has been repainted to suit its creator's whims.

It is said to use around 3.3 litres of fuel for every 100 kilometres travelled.

The custom-made vehicle is smaller than the classic Peel P50, which can be seen below in its original advert.

The Peel P50 is generally recognised as the world's smallest production car. More than four decades old, the P50 made use of a two-stroke 50cc engine and was built on the Isle of Man (in very limited numbers) and had a very tight turning circle.

It didn't offer much (read: any) luggage space and its crashworthiness probably wouldn't score it too many stars in ANCAP testing...

Now, where did that BMW Isetta and Messerschmitt KaRo get to?

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