NEW YORK, June 22 (Xinhua) -- The world's smallest car, the Peel 50, debuted Monday at Ripley's Believe it or Not museum in Times Square, New York.
Designed as a "city car" for Ripley's by the London-based Peel Engineering Company, the one-seater Peel Trident weighs about 68 kilograms, is battery-operated, and travels about 64 kilometers per hour. It costs about 25,000 U.S. dollars to produce.
The Peel P50 is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the smallest road legal car ever produced.
The Peel Engineering Company made a couple hundred gas-powered versions in the 1960s, but they never really caught on.
It even has a handle drivers can use to pull the car, which gets about 480 kilometers per charge, from place to place.
Peel P50 
The Peel P50, a single door, three wheel microcar went on display at New York's Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum on Monday.

The Peel Engineering Company manufactured 50 to 100 of the one-seater vehicles which weighed 130 lb (59 kg), and are 52.8 in (134 cm) in length, 47 in (120 cm) in height and 39 in (99 cm) in width.

The little car can travel as fast as 38 mph (61 kph), and comes equipped with a handle on the car so the driver can pull the car to back up.

Only twenty of the vehicles have survived since 1963, and the original price of £199 has soared to approximately £40,000 (US$ 65,000) today.