The little car you can drive in France without a licence

[super jumbe]

If you are planning on driving in France, beware - one could be heading straight for you at the next roundabout. Carolyn Brown, who lives part of the year in Brittany, has a cautionary tale about a very small car.

Losing one's driving licence in the UK is a serious matter - expensive and, to say the least, very inconvenient.

But in France, no licence? No problem. You can simply go shopping for a VSP a voiture sans permis - a small two-seater car that anyone aged 14 or over can take out on the road with as little as four hours' experience behind the wheel, sometimes not even that.

It's impossible to say how many there are as no official figures exist. It is what the French call a chiffre noir - an unknown quantity.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35210572?ref=yfp

[ifred]

Rumour has it that Meathead has nicked noddy's car and driving it about Meatcity on Vic's imaginary DL

What's wrong with these chiffre noir can't be worst that the ticketed frog can it?

[gopher7]

Do they have a supercharged version that has pedals, so you can go faster than 28mph..???

[Meat-Head]

Thiugh they outlawed 14 year kids driving years ago

[rds60h]

These cars (the car shown is an old Aixam 500cc) are classed as quadricycles and even in Britain can be driven by 16 year olds on a Moped Licence as long as they have passed the theory and practical CBT (Compulsory Basic Training), so the French rules are not quite as different as it seems at first.

http://www.roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/2777.html

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201512229617095?make=aixam&search-target=usedcars&onesearchad=used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew&radius=1501&engine-size-cars=less_than_1l&sort=default&postcode=LU2%209BU&page=1&logcode=p

[super jumbe]

Do they have a supercharged version that has pedals, so you can go faster than 28mph..???