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A new category of moped licence is being introduced on 19 January 2013.
It will allow people aged 16 and over to drive so-called ‘light quadricycles’.
These vehicles look and drive like a car, but are no more powerful than a moped and aren’t allowed to go faster than 28mph (45km/h).
The Aixam Coupe S costs £9,999 new and the French firm hopes to sell 2,000 in the UK next year.
Newsbeat invited 16-year-old Jack Hobson to try it out.
See that here:
10 grand? I agree with Ben. That’s a sodding big amount of money! And isn’t car insurance based partly on value of the vehicle? So a 16 year old driver will pay £9999 for the car then still pay a grand of so for insurance
I go quite often to France and always see quite a few Aixams on the road. I believe that you don’t need a licence to drive one, that was certainly the case a few years back.
Not to pigeon-hole, but they are generally driven by drunken 80 year olds and everyone gives them a very wide berth on the road. I’ve followed more than a few that make straight country roads very twisty.
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