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Re:Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can d... by YeGoblynQueenne on Saturday September 12, 2020 @03:26AM (#24450609)
In Italy, particularly in Bologna, I've seen a bunch of small three-wheeled cars, I think single-seaters, that look like miniature race cars, but seem to be electic urban mobility vehicles, easy to park etc. What are those, if you know what I'm talking about?

Edit: Ah, never mind. I just had a look around myself. I think what I've seen are Renault Twizzys, judging from the pictures I found online. There seem to be quite a few of them in Bologna, for some reason.

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Re:Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can d... by jaclaz on Saturday September 12, 2020 @04:14AM (#24450817)
The Twizy is 4 wheels, though.

JFYI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20506703

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Re:Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can d... by YeGoblynQueenne on Saturday September 12, 2020 @09:31AM (#24452273)
True. I might be misremembering the number of wheels.

Unfortunately Covid-19 kept me from going to Bologna this year, bloody thing, so it's been a year since I last saw the vehicle I'm talking about.

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Re:Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can d... by rbanffy on Saturday September 12, 2020 @06:04AM (#24451287)
When I moved to Ireland I thought about one. Still kind of expensive for what it is when you add doors.
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Re:Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can d... by elviejo on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:24PM (#24453556)
exactly I love the twizzy but how expensive it is with doors, and it didn't even have glass windows it was too much.

Basically the twizzy was 18k usd for an electric two setter. wheread I bought a Dodge Attitude 3 pistons, extremely fuel efficient 4 setter. for 9k usd.

I couldn't justify to my wife to buy half the car in twice the money... I tried

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Re:Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can d... by rbanffy on Sunday September 13, 2020 @10:26AM (#24461080)
The two things going for it are the futuristic look and the fact it's an EV.
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Re:Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can d... by fock on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:07AM (#24451825)
Piaggio Ape I guess [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_Ape]. So a Vespa with storage space.
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Re:Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can d... by YeGoblynQueenne on Saturday September 12, 2020 @09:29AM (#24452253)
I know that kind of vehicle all too well (I'm Greek and we have them here also :). It's not that.
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