page_title: Peel P50
section_title: Legal status
hierarchical_section_title: Peel P50 / Legal status
caption_attribution_description: English: A Peel P50 Car on display at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, UK. Deutsch: Peel P50 Einsitzer Auto. National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, UK.
context_page_description: The Peel P50 is a three-wheeled microcar originally made from 1962 to 1965 by the Peel Engineering Company on the Isle of Man. It was listed in the 2010 Guinness World Records as the smallest production car ever made. It had no reverse gear, but a handle at the rear allows the very lightweight car to be manoeuvred physically when required.
  Designed as a city car, it was advertised in the 1960s as capable of seating "one adult and a shopping bag". The vehicle's only door was on its left side and equipment included a single windscreen wiper and one headlight. Standard colours were Daytona White, Dragon Red, and Dark Blue. The 1963 model retailed for £199 when new. The company produced 50 P50s and only 27 are known to still exist, one of which was sold for a record US$176,000 at a Sotheby's auction in March 2016.
  In 2010 Peel Engineering Ltd. in England started remaking the P50 and Trident models from its premises in Sutton-in-Ashfield, England.
context_section_description: The Peel P50 was and is still road-legal in the UK and, being in the "three-wheeler" category and less than 8 long cwt (900 lb; 410 kg), it is now also street-legal in the US. Cars were exported to other countries, sometimes being classified as a moped (e.g. the P50 that went to Finland). Equally, in the Netherlands, the Peel is not a car  — the vehicle's 50cc engine and its 45 km/h top speed place it in the EU's quadricycle legal bracket.
caption: Peel P50
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