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The original BMW was available in the UK as a three wheeled variant, allowing people with motorcycle only licenses to drive it. http://www.microcarmuseum.com/...

The really small Linux programs are less like a normal car and more like a Service Car. These Service cars start with a pull cord like a lawn mower, no ignition needed. Both are niche items with practical justifications for their creation that owe their current existence to labors of love (one of parts the other of publishing.)

These cars also use a handlebar instead of a wheel and double as a trailer when being pulled. So, perhaps not unlike the typical Linux application at all.

I just saw someone else post something about the Peel 50. http://microcarmuseum.com/video/p50.html The car for the future that originates from the past. I LOVE it!!!!

I'd love to see the return of the Peel 50, with an contemporary engine, but otherwise as raw, cute and unsophisticated as it was when last in production on the Isle of Man.

Stick a modern scooter engine and CVT in a lightweight chassis and composite body shell and I'll be salivating for it!

http://microcarmuseum.com/video/p50.html

Or maybe all weather scooters. Sure, they could be deadly in a collision with a much larger vehicle, but I don't choose my cars or vehicles based on worse-case scenarios. This is basically a modernized 4 wheel Messerschmitt or BMW Isetta, or any other of the various micro cars produced over the years. I ride a bicycle daily, I'm well aware that I could be killed by a Mini Cooper, let alone a Hummer.

See http://microcarmuseum.com/index.html if you want to look at several micro-cars.

old new again but not cool http://www.microcarmuseum.com/tour/fuldamobils-6.html

one day you'll drive your Google ...

You already can. Let's just hope they make the newer googlemobiles a bit more stylish than their earlier efforts.

1938 Velocar Type H

1953 Velo-Velocar (I'm not sure this is the right picture as it mentions 4 wheels in the description)

1938 Velocar Type H

1953 Velo-Velocar (I'm not sure this is the right picture as it mentions 4 wheels in the description)

These cars look suspiciously similar to the Toyota concept. IMO Toyota isn't doing anything new here, just repackaging an old style.

This one made me REALLY laugh.

These cars look suspiciously similar to the Toyota concept. IMO Toyota isn't doing anything new here, just repackaging an old style.

This one made me REALLY laugh.