When each automotive journalist will get to drive a automobile concurrently, it’s important to be artistic to draw consideration to your assessment. The Electroheads crew is just not in need of creativity, and their new video reveals how Ellis made essentially the most weird drag race we now have ever seen with the assistance of Cole – Electrohead’s cameraman – and a Citroën Ami.

If you’re not accustomed to this small electrical city automobile, allow us to warn you that it isn’t legally thought-about a automobile. As an alternative, it’s a quadricycle, one thing that permits 14-year-old individuals or older in France and 16-year-old in the remainder of Europe to drive it and not using a driver’s license. Because of this it’s known as a “sans permis” in its residence nation.

This two-seater has some 2CV components – such because the home windows, practicality, and a few quirkiness – to remind us of what Citroën as soon as was. Additionally it is extremely inexpensive: you should purchase one for €6,900, the equal to $8,366 below the present alternate fee. It will be moderately much less if the greenback didn’t devaluate a lot not too long ago.

Aside from shopping for it, Citroën additionally presents you the choice of LLD (Location Longue Durée, or long-term location). It seems to be like a lease, however you would not have the choice to purchase it ultimately. For that form of deal, you pay €3,541 as your first installment and €19,99 each month for 48 months from that time on.

In each instances, the French authorities presents an “ecological bonus” that drives the worth down in €900. In different phrases, you find yourself paying respectively €6,000 or €2,641 to drive the Ami across the slender streets most European cities have.

For that sort of cash, you get a 75 km (46.6 miles) vary and a prime pace of 45 km/h (28 mph) – which is why the inexpensive drag race was attainable within the first place. You may also have to deal with its weak gear selector, as we reported a while ago. Be sure to watch it and inform us: would you purchase an Ami if Citroën bought you one in your nation?

Supply: Electroheads