Do you like tiny cars? Here’s the smallest car in the world

Growing up, Phoenix-based Austin Coulson was always fascinated by all the cool automotive records he found in the yearly Guinness Book of Records, dreaming of one day having his name mentioned in the famous publication. He recently got his wish last Thursday, after building the world’s smallest roadworthy car.

The world’s smallest car —63.5 cm (25 in) high, 65.41 cm (2 ft 1.75 in) wide and 126.47 cm (4 ft 1.75 in) — which can be safely driven on the road, has entered the Guinness World Records. Custom car maker Austin Coulson in the US set the record as the owner of the smallest roadworthy car, which he can legally drive on the road, and can be spotted by its Texas vanity license plates reading “IM BIG.”

“I’ve always wanted to have a Guinness World Records (title) for something and automotive was always my favourite,” said Coulson. “So I went home and looked up this current world record and thought, ‘I could do that,’” he said.  “When I told my family I was going to try and get the world record for the smallest roadworthy car, they were a little skeptical at first,” he added.

To qualify as a roadworthy vehicle, Coulson needed to get the car registered and inspected and had to install a number of required safety features, according to Guinness website. These included federally approved safety glass for the windshield, functioning windshield wipers and department of transportation—approved signal lights, a seat belt, and working horn.

We can’t get this tiniest car apparently. This has been a labor of love for Coulson, who as we have noted wanted a world record and it does raise the question of whom, exactly, could drive one of these things so comfortable for a certain period of time. But who knows? Soon you might be driving these things to work on. OK, probably not.