- Type-Ami de Caselalani adds retro charm to one of the smallest EVs for sale
- The full vehicle costs $ 13,400, or the DIY Kits reach $ 5,200
- There are nine different color options available
For all the many charms of Citroen AMI, the good surprising aspects do not classify exactly the upper part of the list. But an Italian coach builder has a solution to the small uncomfortable Quadricycle.
Based in the small city of Suspiro, Italy, the Constructor of Autocares and manufacturer Caselalani takes modern products from Citroen and stir them with fiberglass so that they look like the iconic van Hanel trucks type H of the late 1940s .
The panels and lines of the outer corrugated metal body and the angular lines will become forever into history books as a classic industrial design piece, but the vans of the brave panel have recently enjoyed a resurgence thanks to coffee and trucks of food that have used them as a base for tasty operations.
Caselalani will manufacture a modern interpretation of one of them (based on Citroen Berlingo, Relay and Dispatch Vans), but it is the AMI project that really stands out among the crowd.
To begin with, a brave soul is needed to use an AMI as a food truck, which means that Type-Ami is purely designed to raise smiles.
For € 13,900 (about $ 13,400 / £ 11,600 / AU $ 21,300), Caselalani will sell a complete vehicle, including the option to exchange plastic seats and ornaments for the steering wheel of the directory wheel by imitation leather with diamonds with diamonds .
That is approximately $ 3K more than the standard AMI, but customers can choose from six classic colors of the 1950s, or opt for one of the three most modern metal tones. Ah, and you also receive ‘steelie’ jazzy style wheels.
If you already have one of the timinutives of 8BHP, 28 mph of maximum speed speed, you can opt for the DIY body kit on € 4,440 (about $ 4,500 / £ 3,700 / AU $ 7,200), which adds corrugated side panels , gloriously pug-snosed, frontal. End and a rear with ‘Type-Ami’ stamped in a correct period of white letters.
Everything comes with the correct screws and supports for self -esteem, if you feel like many scraped thumbs and many oaths.
The adorable ami becomes even more attractive
As a reminder, Citroen AMI is classified as a heavy quadruple in France and, thanks to its 8 HP electric motor and its maximum limited speed, it can be legally driven by 14 -year -old children … for about 46 miles before 5.5 – KWH The lithium -ion battery dies or mother’s texts to warn that dinner is on the table.
But far from simply being the ticket of a young teenager to freedom, AMI has gained popularity in Europe as a cheap urban mobility, which is presented in a series of schemes to share cars in the city center and finding houses with buyers private who want a form without complications to stores and back.
The H-VAN project is clearly a bit fun that began as a single for the company’s founder, Fabrizio Caselani, but soon made the public when customer consultations began to flood.
Is the H-VAN body kit completely useless? Probably. But has that prevented me from wanting one? At all.
