The Peel P50 obtained the Guinness World Record as the smallest car sold in 2010. It was originally built in 1962, Peel stopped producing them in 1965. Peel or Peel Engineering Company was a manufacturing company that was based in Peel on the Isle of Man. Weirdly, Peel is more well known for fibreglass boats, you can sort of see through the shape of the P50. The Peel P50 had a 49 cc engine, its top speed was about 37 mph (you cannot pay me enough money to be in one at 37mph), but its main party trick was that it could apparently do 100mpg.
The P50 is a three-wheeler, instead of it having one wheel at the front and two at the back like the Robin Reliant, it has two at the front and one at the back. Although the P50 died in 1965, it was resuscitated in 2010, and is still going strong now, well when I mean strong I mean they sell 15 a year (but a lot better than not selling any). They aren't selling the same P50 they were 55 years ago, although the bodywork is the same, the internals are updated. In 2011 a spin off company was made to reproduce the P50 in electric format, pretty cool, no?
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