For the last month, I’ve been driving my project car to work - it’s a weird little 4x4 from the 1980s. It has a 1300 cc engine which pushes it down the road just fine, in fact I’m often having to wait on people with much faster cars to get out of the way.

What’s crazy about it is just how easy it is to navigate around traffic, or in parking lots. It’s so small. It’s like half the length of a crew cab F150. It’s 16"/400mm shorter and 5"/127mm narrower than a Mitsubishi Mirage. It doesn’t matter which way the parking spot is pointed, I can turn right into it. Parallel parking? It’s a non-issue, doesn’t matter if you pull in or back in. Narrow streets are no problem. Tires take forever to wear out, because it has truck tires on it but it weighs abiut 1/3 what a truck does.

While I’d rather have the ability to take a bus or train to work, it’s going to be a while before that happens, it would be cool if we could at least drive to work without carrying 5,000 pounds of metal and plastic with us.