I Saw a Thing

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro) 12/02/2016 at 19:00 • Filed to: carspotting, thing, e-zone, taurus, discussion

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Spotted at a local shop.

A Thing , and a couple of other things...

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The red 50th anniversary Corvette looked nice, but WHAT in the world is THAT?

This is the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , an electric kei car from South Korea.

Comes with convenient carry handles! (The car weighs less than 1200 lbs.)

The steering wheel is tiny, but the color is rad! (Airbags were, believe it or not, optional.)

Note the D / R gear selector

Key tag reads “Smart Car”. It does not read “I KNOW WHAT I HAVE”. I, on the other hand, DO know what I have: a potato for a camera.

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And now for something completely different. After driving by this thing a few times, it was time to stop by real quick for a closer look:

FORD TAURUSURUAT

Just chillin’ there with open windows and flat tires.

But this wasn’t just some Red Green hack job. Just look at the paint! Somebody actually put some care into this. And that somebody is...

CaptDale - is secretly British > Urambo Tauro 12/02/2016 at 19:04

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All of this is very very strange.

Probenja > Urambo Tauro 12/02/2016 at 19:07

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Those bars on the yellow car remind me of the bB open deck:

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro 12/03/2016 at 06:19

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the question is how is the yellow car there in the USA as surely it’s not FMVSS compliant or is it classified as a NEV?

Urambo Tauro > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/03/2016 at 11:07

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I didn’t ask that specific question, but I think he did mention something about that. It sounded like this is one of the ones that came to Detroit for the NAIAS several years ago.

The car has since been lingering around unsold, and has only 58 miles on the odometer. No one’s bought it because there’s just no market for a dedicated city car around here. It’s basically a glorified road-legal golf cart which tops out at about 35-40 mph.

It’s sitting in a showroom now, waiting for someone who’s willing to pay half of its original $10,999 MSRP.