Peel Trident (1965-1966)

Nope, that’s not something from The Jetsons. Rather, it’s a microcar. The vehicle, known as the Peel Trident, was the second three-wheeled microcar made by England’s Peel Engineering Company in the mid-1960s.

Though it was marketed as a “shopping car” or a “Saloon Scooter”, the microcar never really took off, and came to be known as “The Terrestrial Flying Saucer.” It did find a second life in recent years thanks to the reality series Top Gear.

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