Ripley’s Believe It or Not!® showcases world’s smallest car at Dubai International Motor Show

The world’s smallest assembly-line manufactured road legal car – the electric powered Peel Trident – from Ripley's Believe It or Not!®, made an appearance at the 2019 Dubai International Motor Show. 

The Peel Trident is set to be on permanent display at Global Village for its 24th season, in a brand new Ripley’s Believe It or Not attraction due to open to the public this week.

Members of the public could enter into a quiz competition, where winners were able to drive the world’s smallest car around a dedicated track. Show-goers were delighted to take the unique car for a spin.

Initially engineered from 1965 to 1966, the Peel Trident is one of two of the smallest ever assembly-line manufactured road legal cars, both of which were made by the Peel Engineering Company. The British-built car weighs just 80kg and has a top speed of 40kph thanks to its four horse-power electric motor. The custom-made Ripley's Believe It or Not!® Peel Trident model is considered to be the ‘sports model’ and has two forward speeds, one reverse gear, and can squeeze in a 6'6" driver as well as fit inside a regulation size elevator. 

The Peel Trident will be showcased in Global Village’s Ripley's Believe It or Not!® Edutainment attraction alongside other interesting oddities such as the world’s only intricately carved wooden  Ferrari replica which drives on water, an actual piece of the original Berlin Wall, a behemoth Megalodon shark jaw, a large iron Gibeon meteorite from thousands of years ago, amongst other fascinating artifacts and exhibits.