In that case, a mirror in the center would make more sense since the overhead traffic light is also in the center, not above your left or right. But I agree, it kind of makes sense.

@@_rlb No, a lot of them are (as stated) on the side of the road, but still quite a bit higher than you would be able to see....it's actually quite annoying.

@@BuzzinsPetRock78 Hmmm. OK. That does not correspond to the original statement "those tiny mirrors are for looking upwards so you can see the traffic lights mounted above you, in case the view to traffic light mounted on the right is blocked ". Because the traffic light above you would be in the center, NOT to the left or right. But whatever. I live in Europe by the way ;)

And here I thought it was for suction mounts for phones and GPS

What, never see any car with it, even had weird citroens in my life, never had this thing on dash, I'm going to guess this is guess.

Really? It would help me since I'm 185 cm and I have to duck down to see the traffic lights if it's close

That makes so much sense. In europe the lights tend to be near the time. Not opposite the road like in the us.

Tbh.. 3 seats and sliding doors. Im sold. May need bigger batteries though.

This is exactly accurate. It has to do with how far back from the windshield the driver is. American cars also used to have a similar issue, but they solved it a different way, they had these little glass viewfinder like baubles that would catch the color of the light and essentially glow and diffuse the light through what looked like a bulb almost. Eventually this became a non-issue as windows became more and more raked and visibility improved... until new roll safety standards went through and people started to favor higher riding cars with more commanding view of the road/higher beltlines and cars became irritatingly hard to see out of again. EDIT: You can find images of these jewel or sometimes magnifying loup style prisms or lenses by searching, "Traffic Light Viewer" or "Traffic Light Prism."

Those should come standard on all cars. I'm quite tall and I've almost crashed a couple of times because traffic engineers are racist against tall people. "Didn't you see the light?!" "What light, where?"

In so much that it has to be 25 years old before you can personally import one. Yes. :)

it certainly is like a mclaren in terms of reliability

Central seating position with two behind us like the f1

If anything they should have been truly French and made it a little romantic 2 seater and put a 13 horsepower gas engine so that you could fill it up and not have to Jack on every night

Why would they be dumb? They are mostly playful. Does everything automotive automatically have to be Bentley or resemble a friggin military personnel transporter to be cool?

@@furrystep agreed. there's more to cars than speed or features

Preske robert does even quirkier cars than doug demuro

@Reno Simpson I would probably buy a car for that feature.

@Reno Simpson The Flintstones car hein?

That's a fucking attrocious price. You'd have to be on spice to buy it at that price.

My 310hp leon cupra cost that much with the brembo package and cup sport tires.... what were they thinking when they decided the price

@@IIXenon, Leon cupra isn't electric. This car was meant for EV enthusiasts.

@@IIXenon OUCH! That much for a fucking seat leon? Even the golf is around £20K plus. Why are shit cars so expensive?

@@Darkest_matter try to get a faster (modern) car for 30k. Do you prefer the civic type r, megane rs or i30n ? Is every cheap-ish sportscar shit or just the leon? What are you driving, a 11 thousand dacia?

And those would be useful if you could reach out the window to the toll booth from your seating position... XD Seriously, I imagine this car to be a nightmare at parking garages trying to get the ticket from the dispenser at the entrance. Parking afterwards would be a breeze, though.

If you can drive it long enough to get to a toll booth

kargaroc386 🤣

@@Crazy_Borg I doubt it's a difficult reach, actually. It's quite narrow and has very vertical sides, and as he said, it's easy to know exactly where the corners of the car are from the center.

No way its spelled gyro not euro and not only would it not fit in those slots but no sandwich would fit in those slots

To be fair the Mia probably worked better than the GT-R LM's hybrid system.

Meh, it's a nissan. This is more interesting.

I've seen a GTR before. Not this bean

Absolutely!

Same thing when Regular Car Reviews was in Nashville also sampling some of the LMM’s collection; we would have loved to have an RCR Nashville meetup, and there was a guy willing to let them review a 1st gen Chevrolet Aveo, and I would have been more than happy to toss them the keys to my 2nd gen Chevrolet Aveo for review as well.

Ehm, I'm not sure about US traffic law, but in European countries, you can get fined for driving too slow when you can and should go faster. For example, if you do 60 on the motorway, or like 40 on a national road, you'll be pulled over.

Aww man! I thought that looked like the Lane. I would've liked to meet him too.

@@thany3 It is the same over here... but that is why he was on the shoulder with his (assuming) hazard flashers on... I heard the turn signals constantly flashing SO...... and I dont think he made it to a major road just regular city streets.

@@thany3 The same happens in the US. Although, if you are experiencing mechanical failure (as he was) and attempting to return to a shop, a cop would have to be a real jerk to write you a citation.

yeah, but all those changes wouldn't get the price down. Batteries might have become somewhat cheaper now, but I don't think you could sell that thing for under 30K€ - and then you'd still compete with a lot things far more capable and/or cheaper.

​​@@DresdenFPVbatteries are far, far cheaper now. A Nissan leaf with a battery pack 5 times the size, and a much more powerful motor, is 30k euro

@@joebot86 as I said: I don't think you could sell that thing for under 30K€

@@DresdenFPV my point had far more to do with the drastic cost drop of batteries.

It's not wedge shaped enough for my taste. :P

Hahahahahah ! Good.

It makes me so happy to see him happy

Same

Buy one and put 1000cc bike engine in it

@@syedhassaanmujtababokhari6199 I have the feeling that would take an incredible amount of revision and rebuilding to make it work.

@@MaryAnnNytowl yes it would and he's the perfect candidate for it

With some wheelspin even! :D

Must take Trabant back to the drag strip and compare times from first trip......Trabant in the burnout box!!!!

As you said, it's sorted out right. How many videos are there of F1 cars in comparison to the Mia?

Somehow I don't think the museum would have let him drive an F1 car.

If it's a lot cheaper than originally (perhaps thanks to newer batteries) and has doors that actually seal, this might become a niche success. It has to get cheaper, actually, because now there are plenty of small electric cars of this size, like the electric ForFour, that cost about the same while offering car-like performance and safety. I doubt the factory in Hungary will add a proper safety cage and an airbag to it.

@@no1DdC It has to be under 15k€ ... The Seat Mii electric with 33kWh battery is being sold for 16-18k€ next year..

@@rkan2 i would say it need to be under 13k€, over that price you can get not that old Leaf in good condition. It is though really nice for some specific uses like for disabled people (after some mods) and for deliveries in tight city centres

@@alanowa123 remember, you can't compete with the used market, you can always get a better car if you are willing to buy used.

@@marcusborderlands6177 if it comes to used conventional cars then yes, but if it comes to electrics it's just game of price vs range vs features vs mobility in city. It's not about comfort, reliability, parts cost etc. like in normal cars.

Yes!! I was going to comment about that.

PrincessTS01 lol JohnnyCab

No.

@@thedementedmussolinifjb3218 THAT'S what it looks like! I knew it looked like something in a movie, but I couldn't quite remember what.

"Get ready for a surprise!"

Yep, I get where this guy is coming from. '72 beetle owner here. Fun to hear from a guy with alternate values and different qualifications for respect. There is something fascinating about the more humble and underrated vehicles. (KISS, keep it simple stupid)

Not just any car museum either, one of the best :)

@@StarryCactus Right!? I think it's great.

Who knows? Maybe he just asked.

What museum is he at?

What? "Mamma Mia" is a thing, I really hope you don't actually think it's "Momma mia".

@@MuscarV2 But "Mamma" doesn't really make sense as a car name

How much power does the electric motor have on the 120km/hr version.

@@shubhamrane7020 It's 10 kW or about 13 HP. All versions reach 120km/hr

I didn't know it was a European thing only…

@@LMB222 Not sure if it's European only one not, but AFAIK it was and still is a legal requirement in France. (unless you have xenon or other hi-tech headlamps which must have automatic leveling) and it has been for a long time since it was present on the 2CV already.

In Australia the light dipping has to be automatic as we are not deemed competent enough to be able to do it ourselves.

@@kingcosworth2643 bloody government sticking its nose in... 🤣 🤣

Or you can lower the lights when you don't need them that much so you're not a douche to other drivers

i mean technically you can, but that'd just unlike it

You're* It's so incredibly easy to get that right.

Yep, the last car I had that didn't have it would have been sometime in the early nineties.

@@ptonpc It's the law to have headlight adjustment, except for HID's, which must have automatic leveling systems.

@@HB45175 The last car I had that *didn't* have it was sometime in the early 1990's it was not always law.

@@ptonpc In France it had been for a long time; in fact one reason why the venerable 2CV have headlights mounted on a common bar is precisely to allow to adjust both headlamps together. I'm not sure it's mandatory for that long, but It was on all french cars form the 70's onward.

Both

He's currently taken. But I'll adopt him as my other son.

and the Japanese, Australians, Thais, New Zealanders and a dozen other countries.

@@Dave_Sisson Very true. If they were that small (and presumably cash poor?), they probably didn't have immediate ambitions to export outside of the EU, though. It does scream "Kei car" to me, so you never know.

@@TheSteinbring I have an eletric Kei Car, it has a top speed of 136km/h, and can fastcharge, and is cheaper than the car in the video. I drove this car over a snowy mountain pass to days ago... You couldn't done that with the car in the video..

@@MichaelEricMenk But when and by who was your Keicar made? The Mia was made in 2010, and by a company that primary activity is creating specific rear parts on existing vehicles (transforming a Mercedes station-wagon in an ambulance, for example) and a secondary one was turning production cars into electric cars. We're not talking about the level of expertise and found available for something like the Renault Zoe.

@@LeSarthois the model started selling in 2009, and is still being produced.. It's made by Mitsubishi, and also sold rebranded by Citroën and Peugeot.

East Tennessee is Best Tennessee.

@@maglax Said no one ever.

Doesn't smell better though.

no1DdC That's what scented 2-stroke is for!

The dash dials looked very Peugeot Citroën. Do you reckon they just raided the parts bins? 🤣

@@DigitalDiabloUK And the steering wheel looks like it came from a Peugeot 206.

@@DigitalDiabloUK It's very common for electric cars to do that. The SEER Volta (I'm sure he'd love testing it) was made with lots of part from Peugeot.

The blinker sound is exactly same as my 2019 Citroen C1

BTW, that isn't a guess.

The Lane museum is definitely worth the trip. It's in Nashville, Tn.

He did and why wouldn't he? It's very obviously better then freedom units.

@@CherryGS because he most likely grew up using the Imperial system and is likely to have developed a 'feeling' for that to a level that I shall never achieve. I honestly feel that it is more logical, or better adapted to 'my logical system' anyway. I have seen explanations by Americans why the Imperial system is better, and I can understand that but I just don't feel it.

Yes, it actually is better for anything I've ever run across. Why the rest of us Americans can't "get" it, I don't know. Our money is more or less "metric," after all, with one hundred cents equaling a dollar. Yet we have to measure liquids with this weird '3 of this is one of those, and 4 of those equals one of something else, and 8 of something else equals something other, and 16 of something other equaling yet another something entirely' type of nonsense that everyone needs a magnet on their fridge to even try to remember. Very annoying.

So many quirks and features...

THIIIS! is a Mia electric. and it has so many quirks and features

The whole car is a quirk.

True. But IC engine power isn't like 'lectric power. All torque available at a standstill; the best reason for hating the idiot hypermiling Prius drivers for not driving like they mean it!

the isetta upgraded engine has the same horsepower as this thing

@@legohackerman6260 This only did slightly better than the BMW Isetta Doug DeMuro reviewed (which did have to be towed back).

Yes, I saw that, too. Very nice for the taller folks. Well, not literally *through* the roof, but definitely a higher area there.