Prepare yourself for cars of the future

[Schroeder]

Messerschmitt with double t please.

This is the luxurious version with four wheels btw.

Normally they looked like the ones here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_KR200

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

One word of caution, it has NO reverse gear as Jeremy Clarkson found out to his cost on an episode of Top Gear

Reverse gears are for Sissies. The Messerschmitt Kabinenroller had it's own way of dealing with this.

Engine and transmission

The KR200 ran on a 191 cc (11.7 cu in) Fichtel & Sachs air-cooled single cylinder two-stroke engine positioned in front of the rear wheel,[6] just behind the passenger's seat.[3] The engine had two sets of contact breaker points and, to reverse, the engine was stopped and then restarted, going backwards. This was effected by pushing the key further in the ignition switch than normal, whether intentionally or not. One result of this was that the KR200's sequential, positive-stop transmission provided the car with the same four gear ratios available in reverse as in forward movement.[6]