My two favorite things about this car are the split windscreen (actually not an unreasonable choice at the time, as laminated safety glass has to be custom-molded for regular car windscreens, and the tooling for that would have been cost-prohibitive for a projected run that might not reach double digits) and the backwards-facing NACA ducts arranged as extractors for airflow through the radiators (they don’t actually work in reverse like that, but I guess in 1993 a low-volume manufacturer was probably doing aerodynamics by seat of their pants).
Score will? As in guaranteed death? Lol. Either way yeah I was gonna say it would look very out of place today given today’s crash protection standards.
This is the weirdest coincidence. I was sitting in the park earlier and a guy pulled up in one of these: https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/16999ff2-134e-4f60-a14e-5987d2035b6a.jpegThe closest thing I have ever seen in rural Midwest US was a Smart car, or a Reliant Robin on Top Gear. I thought about talking to the guy but he was playing basketball with his kid.
I tried to think of how to look up the car when I knew nothing about it, but Google Lens was my only idea and I didn’t want to take pictures of the guy’s car like a creep.
So I decided to scroll Lemmy for a couple minutes and landed on here. I clicked your link for the Isseta and that was it. Any other app and I would have assumed my phone was spying on me. Wild.
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