23 June,2009 07:44 AM IST | | Agencies
The world's smallest car, the Peel 50, debuted on Monday at Ripley's Believe it or Not museum in Times Square, New York.
Designed as a 'city car' for Ripley's by the London-based Peel Engineering Company, the one-seater Peel Trident is battery-operated and travels about 64 km per hour. It weighs about 68 kg and costs nearly $25,000.
The Peel P50 is recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the smallest road legal car ever produced.
The Peel Engineering Company made a couple hundred gas-powered versions in the 1960s, but they never really caught on.
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The car, which can run about 480 km per charge, has also a handle that drivers can use to pull the vehicle from place to place.
