- Type-Ami de Caselani adds a retro charm to one of the smallest electric vehicles for sale
- The full vehicle costs $ 13,400 or DIY kits are $ 5,200
- Nine different color options are available
For all the many charms of Citroen Friend, the striking beauty does not rank exactly at the top of the list. But an Italian coach manufacturer has a solution for the small clumsy quadricycle.
Based in the small town of Sospiro, Italy, the coach manufacturer and manufacturer Caselani takes modern Citroen products and the fiberglass cache so that they look like emblematic vans of type h panels from the end from the 1940s.
The exterior bodywork panels in corrugated metal and the angular lines go forever in history books as a piece of classic industrial design, but courageous vans have recently appreciated a resurgence thanks to hipster coffee and catering trucks and catering trucks who used them as a base for tasty operations.
Caselani will manufacture a modern interpretation of one of them (based on Citroen Berlingo, Relay and Dispatch Vans), but it is the friendly project that really stands out from the crowd.
To start, you need a courageous soul to use a friend like a catering truck, which means that the type-like is purely designed to raise smiles.
For € 13,900 (around $ 13,400 / £ 11,600 £ $ 21,300 at), Caselani will sell you a complete vehicle, including the possibility of exchanging plastic seats and steering wheel toping for fake diamond leather .
It is about $ 3,000 more than standard friend, but customers can choose from six classic colors from the 1950s, or opt for one of the three most modern metal shades. Oh, and you also get jazzy wheels “Steelie”.
If you already have one of the cutting -edge speed of 8 hp, you can optionize the DIY body kit for € 4,440 (around $ 4,500 / £ 3700 $ 7 200 to), which adds The wavy side panels, gloriously on the nose with a pug nose. End and rear with “type-like” stamped during the correct white lettering period.
Everything is delivered with the right screws and supports to self-install, if you want many scratched inches and many swear ones.
The adorable friend becomes even more attractive
As a reminder, the Citroen Friend is classified as a heavy quadricycle in France and, thanks to its 8 CH electric motor and a limited top speed, it can legally be led by 14 -year -olds … on around 46 miles before The 5.5 The KWH lithium-ion battery dies from mom’s texts to warn that dinner is on the table.
But far from being simply a young ticket for the freedom of a young teenager, the friend has gained popularity in Europe as a cheap urban mobility, in a certain number of car sharing programs in the city center and To find houses with private buyers who want a hassle without hassle to get shops and back.
The H-Van project is clearly a little fun that started as a single Off for the founder of the company, Fabrizio Caselani, but was quickly made available to customer information began to flood.
Is the H-Van body kit completely useless? Probably. But did that prevent me from blaming one? Absolutely not.
