{"id":17418,"date":"2019-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/peel-trident-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:34:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:34:58","slug":"peel-trident-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/peel-trident-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Peel Trident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Modern cars are getting bigger, wider and more comfortable. In addition, thanks to the popularity of SUVs, they are also getting higher. Small, narrow and flat cars, nobody wants to put into the garage. That there once was a time when people were happy to have a car with a roof over their heads instead of a bicycle or a motorcycle, appears like a fairy tale from the Middle Ages. Well, at least it happened in the middle of last century, in the aftermath of World War 2. While in Germany vehicles like the Messerschmitt Karo, the BMW Isetta, the Maico, the Z\u00fcndapp Janus or the Goggomobil were advertised, a company on the Isle of Man between Great Britain and Ireland tried to build the smallest automobiles in the world. In 1961, the Peel P50 finally appeared on the market, a few years too late to seriously participate in the popularity of the microcars. Thus, only about 120 copies were created until 1963.

As a successor to the single-seater P50 Peel developed the two-seater Trident. Even this model couldn’t save the brand ultimately. By the end of 1966 probably only 86 Trident had been built. Then Peel ended the business. One thing they had achieved, however: The P50 is still the smallest road-legal car that has ever been produced in series. Its successor, the Trident, is the smallest two-seater car that has ever been produced. To understand how small the Peel models were, let’s take a look at the modern Smart Fortwo. This is a tiny car from today’s perspective with a length of 2,695 millimeters in the current version. The first generation of 1998 was even a bit smaller with 2,500 millimeters. Compared to the Peel P50 one could almost speak of a stretch limousine. The single-seater is just 1,321 millimeters long, 991 millimeter wide and 1,168 millimeters high. The Trident increased the dimensions to 1,900 millimeters in length with the same width. The fact that two adults should find space under the glass dome seems highly unlikely.<\/p>\n\n\n

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