The Snail

Spotted whilst we did a shopping visit, a car I’ve never seen before.
A Snail, one of the 3,000 hand-built in 1989 by the Pike Factory, industrial designers at Yokohama Japan using the Nissan car factory’s parts bin so apparently very reliable and nearly all are still working. A real cult car.
Snail, from the French word Escargot - a pun on S-Cargo (Small Cargo Van). The Snail's Designer Shoji Takahashi admired the quirky Citroen 2CV apparently