OK, so you can't buy any of these cars new today and the safety regulations pretty much have eliminated them from ever being mass produced again, but I love these little microcars.  The video is from a show called Top Gear, an English show for fans of car buffs, fans of things getting blown up or crashed, and for general English silliness.  If you like cars, this show should be on your "must watch" list.  In the video, Jeremy Clarkson, the 6'5" host of the show, drives around town (and around office buildings) in the Peel P50, the smallest car ever to go into production.  Advertised as "almost cheaper than walking" it got 100 miles to the gallon.  Of course, it got that 100 mpg at 30-35 mph max.

The video got me thinking about cars though.  There's a Fiat 500 Giardinieria for sale down the street from me which could actually be converted to electric.  I went online to find more treasures of this kind and came across the holy grail of microcars:  The Microcar Museum in Georgia.  This is really a tresure trove of microcars and has piles and piles (well, not literally "piles") of cars that make the Giardiniera look like a bloated Humvee.  Sure, some of them run on moped motor.  Some are even pedal cars, which I think is cheating.  But these little suckers are cute and look fun to drive.