I was referring to the car

What's your problem with the Dutch?

They already put the lone wheel in the back before, so they tried something different

They're history's greatest monsters and laid the groundwork for the current corporate middle manager hellscape we're forced to live in.

I never thought I'd ever see a car that begs to be put out of it's misery.

Ugh, that’s even MORE repugnant

Post the black chick and the redhead.

kek I've watched all of these

It's an okay layout for something cheap that won't be going faster than 30-40 miles per hour while keeping your hat dry.

Regal, actually, the older model

Not who you replied to but

bonus

Lil peanut

you’re telling me this ugly thing’s an overgrown tricycle?

It's got three wheels, innit?

His brother is a big Tory.

I don't know what that is exactly but it kind of looks like an invalid car like the one Homer tried to buy

cute

I think they're cute.

Holy shit, a /coo/ thread!
This.

overgrown tricycle?

When we think about it, yes, and it's making me kek harder than it should

Tiny econocars are so cute. They are essentially just big scooters. They are still the perfect answer to personal mobility, wish we had updated, electric versions available.

but we do?

i'll rape you later

What psychopaths manufacture a three wheel monstrosity like this?

British people.

these abominations are what Europeans drive

Because the 1970s broke The United Kingdom hard. It was when the English had no choice but to realize that they were NOT the Empire anymore.

Been a good while since we got an Anon Babble-themed thread here
They are goofy shitboxes but they are cute indeed

american can only think of bongs when they say europeans

mindbroken

What?

This but also not just lower fees, it also means they can skirt certain safety regs that apply to cars specifically, which translates to cheaper manufacturing.

Apart of the Ami these are all Britcars, and mainly if not only driven by them

was just browsing Anon Babble

loaded up Anon Babble

see this thread first thing

immediately question my perception of reality

Europeans

drive

he's italian and insecure about it

Pick a struggle am I right?

bongaloos

European

keep trying, eventually you will have the right country

protip: nobody cares what "country" you're from, a yuro is a yuro

That's a more recent development, however, and vast majority of EVs are from China now, the latter even more true now since Tesla sales are dropping dead

youtu.be/6sogkAM-TSs?feature=shared

I didn’t get this from the cartoon, but in the OG show you can tell he DSSPISES this thing. Full-throttle bean-spiritedness.

These things are hilarious, I want one so bad.

Bongs are actually the only euros, the entire mainland is just a suburb of China these days.

Wait a fucking second. Do you get in through the F R O N T of the car?!?

Yep! Looks like this:

now since Tesla sales are dropping dead

No. They are not.

I will never get tired of how wokies are so buttmad that they are trying to cancel their previous idol, who just happens to be the richest man on the planet.

Overpriced and overdesigned shit. Maybe the Chinese will finally make a decent one.

Hey, at least it can reverse
youtube.com/watch?v=pwDZqAW8M4I

overdesigned

nigga what lmao

It's made of literal plastic panels with no lining and has a pull strap to close the door instead of a handle. It is as close as you can possibly get to "a box with wheels attached" in car form.

Tire shortages.

just admit you always have redcoats rent free in your head burger boy

as a replacement for the 1952-1972 Reliant Regal, which also had three wheels

which was in turn a replacement for the 1935-1951 Reliant Regent, which was a sort of tuktuk van thing

the design was bought from Raleigh - who make bicycles now and made them then as well (they were founded in 1885 as a bicycle manufacturer and moved into motor vehicles later)

Raleigh's Light Delivery Van was first manufactured in 1930, but they'd made their first three-wheel motor vehicle in 1905 (up to 1908 when inflation and wage stagnation slowed the British domestic economy and made high-ticket items less popular)

at that time vehicle and driver licensing was one and the same thing; there were rules of the road but no test to take them and no legal responsibility for manufacturers to make a product which was generally safe - or even did what it was claimed it could do (there was a specific duty under Ansell v Waterhouse 1817, but that wasn't a general duty on manufacturers or sellers) and roads were very different; a general speed limit (which would have been hard to exceed) of 20mph existed until 1930 (when some driving tests were introduced; this was still prior to Donoghue v Stevenson 1932, which established a general duty of care as legal precedent - too many dead animals in Scottish-bottled ginger beer was the cause of that)

licences were originally on a 10-year renewal (the MOT wasn't introduced until 1960, but by then drivers were being licenced too - there's a myth that a licence procured in 1903 would be valid today if the driver were still alive, but in fact it would have been invalidated over 50 years ago)

throughout all this the three-wheel design persisted because it was light, cheap to manufacture (and therefore purchase) and when laden with goods as originally used, was stable enough at the rear to corner well

they fell out of favour from the 1960s onward - the last Reliant was sold in 2001 (at a cost of £10,000 new) for a lot of reasons, principally that they were very small cars that couldn't keep up with safety requirements as well as engine power requirements - a small car of the 1990s-2020s probably weighs as much as a rolled-steel body 1960s car because it incorporates many extra mandatory safety features (roll cage chiefly) and electrical systems by consumer demand; they can have more efficient engines than the 1960s version (but that depends on the driver, principally)

by the 1980s the Reliant three-wheeler was seen as antiquated by the general public despite continuous sales and manufacture, and was also for that reason perceived (truthfully, to some extent, given the age of most of the vehicles on the road and by comparison to other four-wheeler contemporaries, and also because they're rear-wheel drive which is unusual in small cars) as a dangerous vehicle to drive; it was used in the ultra-popular sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1981 as the work vehicle of Del Boy Trotter, a petty criminal and chancer, who was the sort of beloved sitcom character you would absolutely have nothing to do with irl; it was later used by Mr Bean as a conveyance, to underscore how poor, stupid and ridiculous he is

tl;dr they're not good cars and they're terrible motorcycles, based on a design that's 120 years old and was kind of weird even then

not really applicable; motorcycle licences wouldn't cover them before 1963, as they had a reverse gear; if you owned one before then and only had a motorcycle license the reverse gear had to be blanked off for your insurance etc to cover you

after that changed Reliant were slow to adopt reverse gear and didn't put it in all vehicles until 1973, which must have hurt sales and public perception of the brand

they come under motorcycle licence again (since 2012) but at mimimum 750cc you'd need a Cat A licence and to be at least 21 years old; that's with progressive access (ie you'd get your <50cc moped at 16 and test and get your hours with qualified instructors continously); it's 24 without progressive access (in case you really want to be a 24 year old organ donor