Society's got priorities wrong.
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most car travels are 1 person or sometimes 2 person
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the majority of car travels are quite short, less than 40km.
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many car travels are just to get some groceries or drop of a little package or just say "hi" to someone, carrying nothing but themselves.
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cars are fucking expensive, to buy and to maintain
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accidents become way worse with heavier vehicles
Microcar is a valid answer to all of these, while still being sheltered from weather.
How are urban places (i'm in Belgium) with almost permanent super heavy road traffic congestion, bad climate statistics, high polution values, very limited available space left, no self-sustaining energy production and high traffic accident statistics still pooring in billions and billions in subsidies year after year into "regular" big heavy SUV-like vehicles instead of these? It's beyond my comprehension. The only real valid reason i somewhat get is the collective scare of being in a crash and not wanting to be in the smaller vehicle. We could save the climate, we choose not to.
- MICROLINO: 17.990 €
- OPEL ROCKS: 8.699 €
- CITROEN AMI: 7.790 €
- RENAULT TWIZY: 13.000 €
- FIAT TOPOLINO: 9.890 €
A lot of people here casually spend more on a sunday racing bike every few years for fucks sake.
They're also ugly as shit, which unfortunately will affect adoption more than people care to admit. But then again, the PT Cruiser and Nissan Cube sold, so maybe I'm wrong.
I like the looks of them
Me too, they look cute and friendly. Unlike most new cars.
Wait, the looks of the micro car, or the PT Cruiser? I'm afraid we'll have to have an argument if you meant the PT Cruiser.
Fair enough
You forgot to mention the GOAT of ugly cars, the Fiat Multipla.
I have a soft spot for that thing. It's so ugly that it's charming
I knew someone was eventually gonna name that monster; I didn't know that people ouside of italy where aware of it. You know what's the worst part? It's actually very reliable, and drives decently; it's just as ugly as the plague.
My parents had one when I was a kid, the second version was not to ugly and the interior was crazy comfortable for a family car.
It had 3 full front seat and 3 full seat in the back too.
Okay three full front and back seats sounds crazy in a normal sized car.
A picture off the interior
Christ, the arguments...
"It not pretty. I liky BIIIG car, angry headlights, grrr"
I can't believe I still have to explain this to grown ups, people have different tastes. Especially when it comes to car design.
If there was a "best looking car" there would be 1 design on the market.
Very few people in the US would buy this car. We can look at how unpopular EVs were until Tesla made them "cool."
Like or not, outside of car and anti-car communities, most people only want what's trendy and these aren't trendy. I appreciate that people in this community like the car, but we're not exactly a majority in the US, and I live in the US so that's the market I care about
You'd have a much easier time funding mass transit here than getting the average American into one of these.
Ah fuck, I keep foegetting that the world = US. My bad. Thanks for representing "the average american".
Saying "These are ugly, that's why no one's going to buy them" is rage-bating.
The american fragile-masculinity-compensator-3000-supertruck enjoyers might hate these, but they're just a minute subset of a subset of the drivers in the world.
Feel better? Any more strawmen you'd like to dress me up as?
It's very humorous that you think I'm talking about large trucks as the alternative to these micro cars when I'm talking four door sedans and wagons; 4dr wagons are the most popular body style in Europe btw. Seems I'm right about the US market and the European market too. Best to not act holier than thou when your market isn't clamoring for these vehicles either.
Hold up, you think a 5+seater monster is an alternative to a 2-seater microcar?
And you think that because the 2-seaters "are ugly" , people buy 5-door wagons? You're high, right?
What is this logic, jfk...
Your logic is that people outside of the US will buy these. Yet they sell like shit in Europe. No, you brought up trucks. I and the person I responded to we talking about sedans and wagons. Fuck off troll
No, dumbass, READ. For the love of god, r e a d.