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CarStuff

What is the world's smallest production car?

CarStuff

iHeartPodcasts

History, Leisure, Automotive

4.4584 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2009

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Current car trends focus on smaller, more efficient vehicles -- but this trend isn't new. Automotive history is chock full of tiny cars. Which one is the smallest? Tune in and find out in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:05.2

Go behind the wheel and under the hood on everything automotive with high-speed stuff from How StuffWorks.com.

0:13.8

Scott, it's good to see you. I think we should say hello to our listeners.

0:18.1

Likewise, good to see you, Ben. And hello to everyone, I guess. Yeah, thanks for tuning

0:22.0

in, guys. We, of course, are How StuffWorks.com's car podcasters, high-speed stuff, right? That's

0:30.3

us. Scott's shaking his head. Am I embarrassing you? No, no, no. Not at all. Well, let's,

0:35.4

okay, you know what, let's just get right into it pleasantries aside

0:39.5

uh skip the idle chit-chat ben let's get right to it let's get right to it let's get right to it

0:43.6

scott you know oddly enough one of the reasons that i got to be on this crazy wild ride of a podcast

0:50.8

um is because i don't know very much about cars and and you you know oh well

0:56.7

you heard the story i understand yeah that that's why this works though you get to you get to

1:01.3

ask questions i get to hopefully answer questions i know people i you know i sometimes have

1:06.3

questions for you too i well i maybe not automotive related but not automotive related, but I have questions, yeah.

1:11.6

Like, how do you, how do you get to work here?

1:13.6

But one, one question that I've had almost, it seems, almost every other week when we talk about a car, you know, I'm a big sucker for these kind of things, and I'm an easy sell sell so I end up walking away wanting one of the

1:29.1

cars we're talking about I'm not going to bring up the flying car debacle but I will talk about

1:33.4

you know the amphibious cars smart cars things of that nature I really buy into it when we hear

1:39.2

about the details so I was thinking today we could take it back a little bit to an earlier podcast.

1:45.8

How far back?

1:47.1

Pretty recently.

1:48.2

Not that, not too far.

1:49.2

It should still be fresh.

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