Originally Posted By pandy
Originally Posted By 4/4sportsfun
'Moped cars' for 16-year-olds are coming to the UK

A new category of moped licence is being introduced on 19 January 2013.

It will allow people aged 16 and over to drive so-called 'light quadricycles'.

These vehicles look and drive like a car, but are no more powerful than a moped and aren't allowed to go faster than 28mph (45km/h).

The Aixam Coupe S costs £9,999 new and the French firm hopes to sell 2,000 in the UK next year.

Yet more Sunday drivers to join the ranks, great.

p.s. I think they are made of plastic so could burn well. slap



We've had them in France for a long time now - called "Voitures sans permis" as you can drive one without a licence - so they are popular with drunkards who've had their licences taken away. IMHO they are an absolute menace as they cannot keep up with the normal flow of traffic (and should more correctly be called mobile chicanes) and as the person at the wheel is often a drunk, it's best to give them a very wide berth and to make no assumptions about the driver's intentions.

I can't see that it is safe or desirable to put inexperienced drivers in such cars - in particular because they don't have to meet the same standards of crash protection as real cars.


Very interesting if not worrying comments Giles, the whole thing sounds ill thought out and open to abuse.

2009 4/4 Henrietta
1999 Indigo Blue +8
2009 4/4 Sport Green prev
1993 Connaught Green +8 prev