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And the steering wheel - is it airbag equipped?

It looks as if it is.

One thing I do quite like is the leather toproll on the dash.

I can't believe as a car that it would not have to have a windshield and wipers.

Although here in the US if you wear eye protection you don't necessarily have to have a functioning windshield.

Back in my foolish young days I had a '62 Sprite and hit a guard rail pole in the nose. My friend in the passenger seat took out the windshield and with other repairs; I got it back on the road quickly, but without a windshield. I wore my cycle helmet with face shield while driving it. I got stopped by the State Police and they tried for about an hour to give me a ticket for no windshield. They could find in their rule book about obstructed vision by driving with a broken windshield, but nothing said that you had to have one as long as you had eye protection.

So the OZ version being a car, I would imagine no helmet is required, but it definitely does not have a windshield of any importance. So how does that work?

Don't forget that they are standing upside down.

I suspect that the stiffened chassis was nothing to do with the Oz rules. There have been several chassis breakages in the front suspension area, and it needed beefing up more than a bit. The new stiffening triangulates the cross member behind the engine, now welded not bolted in place. Something which the rest of the chassis could do with in all honesty.

The toproll does look good and it could also be the cure to the wet right leg?

Sorry to be pedantic (well, no, I tell a lie) but those are not "anti roll bars". They are roll-over hoops. That would be the correct description, even though they are probably completely useless and definitely insufficient for anyone of more than average height.

Have they borrowed the mirrors off a Scania.

Are you telling me that Matt Prior didn't actually do a thorough test of those hoops, or he did and they worked?

Funny you should mention the anti-roll bar, because the Three Wheeler rolls around the rear wheel, I wonder if an a/r bar on the front might help or hinder? Thinking about it, I expect it would increase understeer even more, something the little car does not need.

The mirrors look like Stadium motorcycle ones.

The top "dash roll" and steering wheel would be padded for occupant safety. I am sure it is not an airbag steering wheel, that would be just too expensive. The low "windscreen" would be because any windscreen that you can not see over would have to have wipers. Strictly speaking this would be a requirement for Germany too. Moto Guzzi made a special low windscreen that was fitted to the California for the German market.

The mirrors were no doubt chosen because they "comply" with ADR (Australian Design Rule) regulations. It is a bit of stupidity of the rule makers that they do not automatically accept European or British standards and, just like in Europe the mirrors must be stamped with approval numbers. Most likely the exhaust system has to be stamped with Australian approval numbers too, as well as the output decibels and the model for which it has been approved. The sane sort of thing applys to brake lines too - they must be branded with Australian compliance marks.

Come the revolution the first against the wall should be the bureaucratic, pedantic, regulation makers.