Citroen AMI

[MrBig]

ZesPak said:

Yep, one of the things I really like about the Twizy. Can fit gaps in traffic a car will leave you waiting.

I often wonder about the legality of this... I mean if you are in a car sat in 2 lanes of traffic, could you legally straddle the dividing line and drive between the lanes if there was a big enough gap? I'm assuming it's legal for bikes but where is the line drawn? Quadricycles ok, but cars not?

[MrBig]

98elise said:

politeperson said:

Can someone remind me what is new about an electric golf cart?

Registration for UK roads?

Nothing....but its not a golf cart.

Edited by 98elise on Sunday 6th November 19:16

Indeed. Golf carts ride much better.

[Smiljan]

TP, have you watched me and mon ami on youtube? A British couple living in the south of France, they've done quite a lot on driving longer distances and through terrible weather along with a recall that meant flicked up stones in the wheelarch were knocking the door latch and flinging the door open!

Seems well suited to where they live, was recommended by youtube algorithm after I subbed to your channel.

[SWoll]

Toaster Pilot said:

Customer deliveries are in full swing now, I think there’s still a circa 14 week wait for new orders.

Cargo loses the passenger seat and adds a storage area for parcels etc.

[Inspectre]

Picked mine up today (delayed from 21 October with a dead battery "small one in the front" which was a shaky start). I did not go for a test drive or watch any reviews so was a lovely raw and funny experience! Found the acceleration ok, top end needing some modification and a long steep uphill slightly worrying watching speed decrease slowly from late 20's to 18mph by the time I got to the top....it was really noticeable how the range decreases when working the motor hard as well, although I did see the range increase a bit on one downhill!
My pickup run was about 15 miles of B roads some of which are quite fast roads if you have the means which meant I felt slightly anxious at times joining around at 25 mph But where it all felt really at home was when I hit the home run town boundary - it was really quite a nice experience to drive on town and wave back at anyone who cared to point, wave and take a photo!
Great first run out and sure I've bought myself an enjoyable ride for dotting around town odd jobbing with the occasional blast in the country!

[croyde]

Love the petrol pump icon with the pump handle replaced with a plug

[ZesPak]

croyde said:

Love the petrol pump icon with the pump handle replaced with a plug

In all fairness, a charging station looks very similar. (not that the AMI can use one but...)

[M1C]

Two new ones delivered at work. Fun little thing.

[Inspectre]

[Mezzanine]

That could probably go in the back of the Vivaro

[JohnnyUK]

Here's Alain......





Already had 4 convos about him with complete strangers....whatever you think, he's a talking point.

[Gweeds]

Brilliant little cars - our cities should be full of these things.

[Mammasaid]

JohnnyUK said:

Here's Alain......





Already had 4 convos about him with complete strangers....whatever you think, he's a talking point.

Prost!

[JohnnyUK]

Mammasaid said:

JohnnyUK said:

Here's Alain......





Already had 4 convos about him with complete strangers....whatever you think, he's a talking point.

Prost!

[skwdenyer]

Gweeds said:

Brilliant little cars - our cities should be full of these things.

I'd far rather the streets were full of these:



By comparison, the AMI seems such dull and inefficient engineering

[LivLL]

skwdenyer said:

Gweeds said:

Brilliant little cars - our cities should be full of these things.

I'd far rather the streets were full of these:



By comparison, the AMI seems such dull and inefficient engineering

Whatever happened to that thing? Murray was hawking it as the next best thing over a decade ago. Seems to have vanished.

[Mezzanine]

LivLL said:

skwdenyer said:

Gweeds said:

Brilliant little cars - our cities should be full of these things.

I'd far rather the streets were full of these:



By comparison, the AMI seems such dull and inefficient engineering

Whatever happened to that thing? Murray was hawking it as the next best thing over a decade ago. Seems to have vanished.

Shell built up their own prototype based on the T25 but don’t think they ever went further than generating a headline.

[DonkeyApple]

Gweeds said:

Brilliant little cars - our cities should be full of these things.

GWiz mk2. In environments like London it would be good to see these take off. The issue in the urban environment is the most likely user would be someone in a £500k+ home with no private parking.

I guess the risk of micro EVs is that they could increase the number of car journeys as something like this would most likely be used by someone to give up walking, using the bus or tube etc?

[SWoll]

Are we expecting the reality of the lack of heating in the Ami when heading into the winter to dampen peoples enthusiam somewhat?

Appreciate mutiple layers, gloves and a hot water bottle stuffed up you jumper will help keep the driver warm but what about being able to see out of the bloody thing or defrosting it in the morning?

[M1C]

SWoll said:

Are we expecting the reality of the lack of heating in the Ami when heading into the winter to dampen peoples enthusiam somewhat?

Appreciate mutiple layers, gloves and a hot water bottle stuffed up you jumper will help keep the driver warm but what about being able to see out of the bloody thing or defrosting it in the morning?

It does have heating

Albeit a rather basic 'on/off' blower. It does clear the windscreen and is reasonably warm, although thats just my view from one small drive.