Chinese Wildfire

This delightfully quirky little car is called the Wildfire.

Hailing from China, these contraptions come with a two cylinder motorcycle engine, and can achieve greater than 60mpg.  For around $7000 out the door you can have this four door, three wheeled wonder and it really might be worth thinking about.

It will turn on a dime, and of course that Star Trek space shuttle look, incredibly light weight and the large amount of room on the inside (seriously, rear leg room is insane) make this look like a pretty killer city car.  Put on some studded tires -maybe a front ski- and it could make for a sweet winter wonder-mobile considering the driver sits on the engine.  It apparently can hit highway speeds but I wouldn’t want to be caught dead in one of these on the highway, which is probably exactly what would happen should you need to make any emergency avoidance maneuvers.

Redneck and I found out about this after chasing down one we saw going the other way down the street.  The owners told us about the local dealer and we fully expect to check it out and go take one for a test drive.  Mr. Redneck has some more on the technical details on this thing I’m sure so hopefully those will come out soon.

The only thing it’s missing is a retro flower power paint job, and maybe some bubbles coming out of the exhaust.