On the Q.T.
“Q” Me In …
It’s so cute. Or should I “Q”-te.
The world’s smallest car, the new Toyota Q car, was on display yesterday at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The car is nine feet nine inches long. The new design has shaved off three inches from the car’s already compact specs.
Or, to put it in New York terms, in that 450 square foot studio apartment you live in … you just lost half your kitchen.
The Q-Car is the latest in inspired green design that manages to make incremental improvements in your carbon footprint at the expense of other minor details like safety and comfort.
Toyota’s marketing materials boast the car can fit four people. For this reason, the car is likely to impress abortion rights activists since the only way four people could fit in this car is if two of the people in the car are pregnant … but only in the first trimester.
If you just want to have two people in the car, the Q is designed with passenger seats that fold down for extra storage space. The versatile design is Toyota’s attempt to market the car to an audience broader than just ex-Munchkins and contortionists from the Cirque du Soleil.
While pushing the limits of miniaturization to the point where the average airline seat looks like a summer home in comparison, the Toyota Q car manages to make up in convenience what it lacks in safety.
With today’s new lighter materials, if you happen to back up into another car in a parking garage, the total space inside the car will be reduced by half. For any accidents which take place at over 15 miles-per-hour, the entire car (including passengers) will reduce to roughly the size of a can of tuna. This makes for easy clean-up of accident sites and minimal delays for other drivers.
Toyota. Smart design with you in mind … if you happen to be Verne Troyer.
Actual size
global warming, climate change, carbon footprint, Toyota, Q car, MiniMe, Verne Troyer, abortion rights,
September 24th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
[...] won’t buy one until the Japanese version comes [...]