As this car made in France, the speedometer says of course 60 km, not 60 miles. The allowed top-speed with that class of microcars in Europe is 45 km/h, which is around 25 mph.
There's no speed limit for microcars, but a speed limit for some kind of driving license and insurance. If the car was faster it was taxed as car, not as scooter, tractor, wheelchair or whatever.
Jakob Friðþjófsson - Cool name. Iceland is a beautiful and unique place and your language looks and sounds kind of alien yet familiar at the same time.
Nope, prison jumpsuits say "prisoner" or "department of corrections on them", orange jumpsuits scream "don't run me over while I fix your f-ing roads"...
@@davidhollenshead4892 Thats literally a jail issue jumpsuit. They get printed by whatever facility buys them. By your logic, a car without a license plate is not a car?
Its such a pitiful little car lol. I love it lololol I wanna see more of these funny little automobiles. And there's something utterly hilarious about seeing Jason wrestle with these things.
As a french, it's fun to see that the car I drive everyday (a Fiat Panda, the blue car you can see in the background at 0:17) is a curiosity in the USA, strange enough to be part of a museum's collection. Great car by the way.
@@GreenJeep1998 in my opinion the peel p50 looks more like a suv, with a flat back. The mini comtesse has slightly a bacl to it if you look closley from the side, so i thinks its more of a coupé version, or copared to the peel p50 its probably faster so itd be a SUPER SALOON.
Actually, "sans permis" still exists! The law has evolved so basically they just have to be extremely light (I think it's 450 or 500kg max) and slow (45 kph max) cars and some other things like having only one gear (plus reverse), etc. So now those are some kind of ridiculous two seaters that makes you go mad when it's in front of you on the road :D
Life was easy in the 70's haha, now in France you need a 50cc license to drive this, you can't be drunk at the wheel (obviously) and you can't drive it on every type of road. Oh and i'm pretty sure the speedo is in km/h, but 60km/h is still a very good joke haha
imagine driving over the railroad tracks keeping your posture thanks to your vehicles suppension, then look over to see a man in that box car wobbling all over the place while wearing a jumpsuit.
I hope sometime that Jalopnik makes it to Bangkok, to the 'Jesada Technik Museum' . Just google it, then select 'maps' , and take a streetview journey within the museum. Why? Well, just about all the wild and wacky old or little cars are roadworthy, still used on the roads for special occasions
Only thing this is good for is culvert fill. Thanks for sharing, haven’t laughed as much since watching your vids on the Hoffman and mobile food processor lol!
The Emperor of Mankind Eh, think I'd want the carbon more for safety purposes that light weight, I've used garbage cans that are sturdier than that thing looks!
"Symbology? Now that Duffy's relinquished his "King Bonehead" crown, I see we have an heir to the throne. I'm sure the word you were looking for was "symbolism".
Saw another one of these unlicensed little things in Monterey this year called a SEAB Flipper. Apparently that one had a pedal mechanism for extra power. Very strange little cars.
Seems like a modern upgraded version could probably be a lot more driveable while remaining within the restrictions. Given the various attempts at ultralight vehicles and pedal cars and modern materials and engine options I think it could be done.
if not for the fact it appears to be slower than a moped. This would be very economical and fun. Still wouldn't mind having one, they do look like fun. In the same way a go kart is . And if you put the right go kart motor on that you'd be having a code Brown. Quickly LOL. I used to have a racing go kart that would do something like 60 or 80, no I'm not joking, and it had roughly the same size motor as on this little piece of interesting. I kept thinking to myself what it would be like to drive that vehicle with the motor that's on one of those racing go carts. Would be a interesting experience and you definitely wouldn't have to worry about going uphill.
I agree with the comments, it looks like you were smart enough to break out of prison but not-so-smart with the escape plan so you resorted to this as your getaway car.
Jason needs his own TV show I never get tired of this guy
I wonder how Doug would look like driving this thing.
yeah
He probably wouldn't fit in it... That's probably why he doesn't review these cars thinking about it.
Eric Ortiz give it a Doug score
Eric Ortiz I don't care to hear him whine that much honestly
I wonder what borderline clickbait title he’d use for it
60km/h or about 36mph
bad choice for breaking out of prison
As this car made in France, the speedometer says of course 60 km, not 60 miles. The allowed top-speed with that class of microcars in Europe is 45 km/h, which is around 25 mph.
There's no speed limit for microcars, but a speed limit for some kind of driving license and insurance. If the car was faster it was taxed as car, not as scooter, tractor, wheelchair or whatever.
Make them google it.
Jakob Friðþjófsson - Cool name. Iceland is a beautiful and unique place and your language looks and sounds kind of alien yet familiar at the same time.
He looks like he just escaped from prison
Yeah lol, why is he wearing a prison jumpsuit.
WATCH THE VIDEO
Nope, prison jumpsuits say "prisoner" or "department of corrections on them", orange jumpsuits scream "don't run me over while I fix your f-ing roads"...
@@davidhollenshead4892
Thats literally a jail issue jumpsuit. They get printed by whatever facility buys them.
By your logic, a car without a license plate is not a car?
in the cars defence they make an excellent get-away car. Just drive it into the back of a van. Boom it's vanished
If this guy was on the American Topgear it may actually be watchable. Loving this show so far!
With Doug DeMuro and Robert Dunn (Aging Wheels) as co-hosts.
@@Desmaad I'll have to check out Aging Wheels but Doug would be just perfect for Top Gear :D
Its such a pitiful little car lol. I love it lololol
I wanna see more of these funny little automobiles. And there's something utterly hilarious about seeing Jason wrestle with these things.
As a french, it's fun to see that the car I drive everyday (a Fiat Panda, the blue car you can see in the background at 0:17) is a curiosity in the USA, strange enough to be part of a museum's collection. Great car by the way.
No, it's a pos, and you know it lol
James May owns one.
+Dédé LABINOUZE take back your mean words!
McHallfin
Soowwy haha
Americans drive normal cars.
The speedometer is in km/h, not in mph.
That's still optimistic
Are you sure that the speedometer shows mph not kph?
Either way, it's a bit optimistic lol
Bichingo why would he be its a french car after all
it's a french car made for the french market, it's km/h obviously
@@Twinspinner 50kph wouldn't be impossible even for something like that
i swear this thing's the stapler guy from _Office Space_ in car form
Love the shopping cart casters in the front, just in case you start to roll over.
Making Falcon doors before Tesla made them cool.
Saman Orou before Mercedes made them cool actually
The OG OG hipster
More of a pigeon door in this instance
But only on the left side, I am surprised it was not mentioned
Gull wing doors have been around since the mid 1950's
Manual falcon doors? On a Peel P50 lookalike thing? I'll take 2!
only one was made
What are you talking about? About 18,000 Mini Comtesses were produced.
austinmini1275 I'm sorry to hear that.
Lok, I thought it kinda looked like an SUV version of the P50!
@@GreenJeep1998 in my opinion the peel p50 looks more like a suv, with a flat back. The mini comtesse has slightly a bacl to it if you look closley from the side, so i thinks its more of a coupé version, or copared to the peel p50 its probably faster so itd be a SUPER SALOON.
Actually, "sans permis" still exists! The law has evolved so basically they just have to be extremely light (I think it's 450 or 500kg max) and slow (45 kph max) cars and some other things like having only one gear (plus reverse), etc. So now those are some kind of ridiculous two seaters that makes you go mad when it's in front of you on the road :D
So basically you could drive a go kart on the street if it has lights and turn signals
Someone will shoehorn a Hayabusa engine into it
Id...... pay some good monies for one of these if it counts as a moped.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité in other words when you wake up in the gutter looking up there is always an MC
If no one else said it ... The canned ham absorbing the shocks in that car was you.
When I heard the 14 year old part: "YEEEEEEEEAH!!!" When he said the drunk part: "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!"
the driver of that beetle behind him is officially the most patient driver on a planet
The thing legitamately has shopping cart wheels 😂😂
Move up to a Yugo!!
All those cars in that museum and you picked that. Brilliant choice
I love this man.
I enjoyed how the shot from the lead car was used for your narration so much.
That 2-part door though. Really awesome!
In danger of being smooshed by a VW Bug 2:57
I love the moped with a roof! C'est chic.
"I love how every time I come to Lane I find a new way to be terrified going so freaking slowly" - This line sums up Jason Drives perfectly.
The logo looks like a couple of safety pins.
At 5:05 it's like the v8's are like WHATS THIS KID DOING HERE
The Lane Motor Museum is so freakin' great. Local treasure.
Id put a V8 with a 4 speed in that
erich84502ify youd sit* on a v8 with a 4 speed in that
where did you think you could fit the gasoline?
on the roof
car is too light it would fly out of control
Axel Martell that's the point u goob.
Life was easy in the 70's haha, now in France you need a 50cc license to drive this, you can't be drunk at the wheel (obviously) and you can't drive it on every type of road.
Oh and i'm pretty sure the speedo is in km/h, but 60km/h is still a very good joke haha
Soooo funny. Thanks a million
imagine driving over the railroad tracks keeping your posture thanks to your vehicles suppension, then look over to see a man in that box car wobbling all over the place while wearing a jumpsuit.
大きな発泡スチロールの箱が風で飛ばされて転がって来たのかと思えるシルエットがイイ感じですね♪ 他には無いスタイルが良いですね♪
I hope sometime that Jalopnik makes it to Bangkok, to the 'Jesada Technik Museum' . Just google it, then select 'maps' , and take a streetview journey within the museum. Why? Well, just about all the wild and wacky old or little cars are roadworthy, still used on the roads for special occasions
this guy has a knack to make these disgusting cars seem fun.
i like this guy. watch the one he made about the Hoffman.
I've been to the Lane Motor Museum before. The first time I was there was about 10 years ago and I want to go back to it.
Only thing this is good for is culvert fill. Thanks for sharing, haven’t laughed as much since watching your vids on the Hoffman and mobile food processor lol!
OWH MOTHER OF GOD!!! i saw what engine that car used, you can't hide it from me. IT'S A SAXONETTE AUTOMATIC MOPED ENGINE!!! holy fuck...
The overall line made me lose it 🤣
Wow man. You make that car look huge!
I'm really glad that at 0:50 they address that he's clearly in a prison jumpsuit.
I think if we swap out the transmission with a generator and a electric motor on it would be like able to runs faster.
Saviliana You stole my comment!
The Emperor of Mankind Eh, think I'd want the carbon more for safety purposes that light weight, I've used garbage cans that are sturdier than that thing looks!
0:17 A Fiat Panda in the background😍
Your description of the French when they created this thing made my day :'D :'D :'D
When I first read the title I was "if I could drive and take a shit at the same time, that's a win-win!
A perfect example of "just because you can doesn't mean you should."
"Symbology? Now that Duffy's relinquished his "King Bonehead" crown, I see we have an heir to the throne. I'm sure the word you were looking for was "symbolism".
CasperInkyMagoo Got any theories to go with that tie?
^this guy got it
Can't wait...
Why do you look like you just broke out of prison?
Oops. I watched the video.
I asked for more Jason Drives, and the Torch is delivering >:)
This car isn't much bigger than a bread box which is fitting it's at the Lane Motor Museum because that building used to be the Sunbeam Bread Co.
It's French, and it's from the 70s -- is one of those dash knobs a cigarette lighter?
Modern cars have ciggarette lighters too?
Villnius all of them
probably, and i have to say, i fucking love the french
And a white flag
+Aidan Guthrie The car IS a white flag.
Damn that'd be a kick ass field trip for those kids!!
I would motor swap this thing in the first week of ownership.
Uh, I'd say it's safer to just build your own mobil porta-potty than try modifying that thing.
TheVintagetamiya Same here, think I still have an old starter from my XJ laying around, or a motor from a washer or drier that might work!
Id take my uncles riding mower engine and stick it under the little hood.
A Fiat Panda in the museum!! What is it doing there??
I found that weird as well. I went to the museums website and it turns out they have quite a few EDM and JDM cars for show
I did a search on their website, too!! I was curious to see, what's all about!
I love Jason's enthusiasm for such crap cars No matter how bad things are they can always get worse...
Saw another one of these unlicensed little things in Monterey this year called a SEAB Flipper. Apparently that one had a pedal mechanism for extra power. Very strange little cars.
You should be required to drive one of these if you get a DUI. That would likely be worst punishment than losing or having a restricted license.
You don't look like an idiot you look like you just got out of prison. with the orange jumpsuit.
you're an entertaining guy
build in france, nuff said, love it.
6:29 A pair of old Italian grandmothers.
This guy is a good presenter, would make a good fit in motortrend
Swap out the sprockets and get a 4 valve cylinder conversion and that thing will be cookin lol
4 valves? On a two stroke? :p
+ThirteenMatt didn't realize it was a two stroke
+ThirteenMatt make it a 50cc V twin lol
Just get another cylinder, something to cut in the block and welding equipment. Perfect :D
Ive seen hopped up lawn mower engines that could get that fucker to 55 no problem
Surely this was developed as a 3 wheeler, flipped and rolled during testing, and got shopping cart wheels bolted on as a fix.
So basically a french peel p50 with falcon wing doors
Mike Wolfe from American pickers own one of these cars... I think they're ace!!!
When he said "symbology," I had a Boondock Saints flashback
This thing should be the required auto for repeat DUI offenders.
I want this guy's job! :D
Seems like a modern upgraded version could probably be a lot more driveable while remaining within the restrictions. Given the various attempts at ultralight vehicles and pedal cars and modern materials and engine options I think it could be done.
This car would have been my dream car as a kid.
The best bit about this car is he needed someone driving behind him with hazards on to make it even remotely safe
I like the little car.
Nice interior though!😆
The extra wheels are good ideas for a nominally 3 wheel car. The Reliant Robin could use those too.
You are so funny!!
Man and I thought the '80 LNA Enterprise I drove was slow, you should try it, would slip it into neutral downhill to go faster.
I just read the sign on the end card. Lol. It's definitely an over sized vehicle
I don't know how good canned ham is for shock absorbers, but I'm sure you could replace the oil in a regular one with Bovril or something.
LMAO it looks like you escaped from prison in a mail truck
Potty Racers came to life!
Death trap 😂 starting putting politicians lol.
That could make people laugh all day long. Happy driving. Set it up for Uber rides!
0:33 Falcon wing door, manual version. This is where Tesla got the model X door design from.
I was loughing so much
if not for the fact it appears to be slower than a moped. This would be very economical and fun. Still wouldn't mind having one, they do look like fun. In the same way a go kart is . And if you put the right go kart motor on that you'd be having a code Brown. Quickly LOL. I used to have a racing go kart that would do something like 60 or 80, no I'm not joking, and it had roughly the same size motor as on this little piece of interesting. I kept thinking to myself what it would be like to drive that vehicle with the motor that's on one of those racing go carts. Would be a interesting experience and you definitely wouldn't have to worry about going uphill.
Why does Jason look like an escaped convict?
This guy is funny
4:48 SO MANY MUSCLE CARS
This guy used to ride the short bus. Now he drives his own short car.
I agree with the comments, it looks like you were smart enough to break out of prison but not-so-smart with the escape plan so you resorted to this as your getaway car.
any one notice stalker VW it was in the whole video
Bob Bob it's probably a camera or rescue car
Jason lives in a cardboard box outside of the Lane motor museum. That place is cool though.
Don’t let him kid you about the jumpsuit
Jason just escaped from prison