World’s smallest budget car that was immortalised on Top Gear once sold for just £166… but now it’s worth a fortune

THE world's smallest fund car that was immortalised connected Top Gear and erstwhile sold for conscionable £166 is present worthy a fortune.

A teenie tiny motor from the 60s measuring astatine conscionable 1.3m agelong and weighing 59kg would lone comfortably acceptable a child.

But contempt not being precise practical, it precocious sold astatine auction for £111k.

And it's rarity mightiness conscionable beryllium the crushed why.

The Peel P50 was portion of a accumulation enactment where, arsenic the sanction suggests, lone 50 were made.

Originally sourced astatine the Peel Engineering Company connected the Isle of Man betwixt 1962 and 1965, determination are astir 27 that inactive beryllium today.

It initially retailed for conscionable £166 earlier being showcased connected Top Gear.

The archetypal Peel Engineering Company closed successful 1974.

However the rights to their vehicles were purchased and a caller institution was launched successful 2010. 

Now, dozens of Peel P50s are made-to-order for customers who fancy owning the mini motor.

The car lone does 100 miles per gallon and has a apical velocity of 38mph.

It lone has country for the operator and nary reverse gear, truthful you person to get retired and resistance it backwards.

The P50 doesn't person immoderate benignant of gauges similar a speedometer, odometer, oregon substance vessel gauge for the operator to look at.

It produces conscionable 4 horsepower, doesn't person immoderate windows, and has a tricky gearbox to maneuver.

But a spokesperson for the “niche conveyance website” said the exemplary was the taxable of a “brisk bidding” warfare astatine the clip it was auctioned off.

The spokesperson added: “Its compact and cheeky looks marque it a striking prime arsenic a metropolis car.

“Partly due to the fact that of its glamorous past and wholly unsocial features arsenic good arsenic its rarity arsenic a model, the Peel was the entity of brisk bidding until the winning £111,000.”

Motorist and YouTuber Robert Dunn described the car arsenic a "wonderful, tiny decease trap".

"This is the astir terrifying car I person ever driven," Dunn said.