I’m not completely sure the greeting couple is actually sightseeing, but they certainly seem to be having a jolly good time in this 1957 snapshot. However, the couple up front doesn’t seem so quite at ease. The 600’s stretched-Isetta interior was fairly spacious, so why are they so scrunched up against the windshield? A moved front seat? A strong desire to appear on camera?
I think they’re just leaning forward to see the camera…?
I’d be interested to see crash test results for a vehicle like this. I can’t imaging the occupants surviving anything over twenty miles per hour, can you?
Crash test, bash test, always a party pooper. Evolution is not always pretty. My Honda Insight has a narrow rear track. I thought they were neat when riding to school in a manual school bus in ‘63.
The couple up front aren’t in seats.
They are sitting in the butter tray on the inside of the refrigerator door.
I think with this one it’s see or be seen. Like the Subaru 360 or the Fiat 500, these are tiny cars. Tiny as a Mini. That front door hatch would be fun to try, just not drive on the road. Maybe in a closed off parking lot, take this for a short spin would be interesting.
Quintessential, “toon car”!
Don’t forget Sir Stirling Moss drove one of these….
Would have been a great marketing image, sans the two faces inches away from the windshield.
It was all fun and games until he slammed on the breaks.
An electric retro has been in production, since a couple years now. They call it a Microlino
You use your knees as bumpers.
I already do:
Hahahaha…it is tthe perfect state limousine for a president from the green party (god forbid we’ll ever have to suffer such an indignity…)