It is enjoyable to drive, too: quiet, clean, not quick, however perky sufficient and nimble sufficient to navigate the multi-storey at Westfield, if a contact unnervingly unstable with it. And slowly.

Most of all, it has common curb attraction and a humorousness – qualities you’d battle to match with the Dacia Spring and Leapmotor T03. You smile as you drive it, and the entire world smiles with you – youngsters at bus stops, truck drivers, vacationers and weathered commuters united of their seen appreciation for a automotive that desires to get pleasure from as a lot because it does convey.

After all, I do not wish to disingenuously paint it because the savior of worldwide motoring. It is nonetheless very a lot a fashion-first and comparatively rudimentary rover – solely actually higher than a moped by advantage of its roof and seatbelts – and you’ll wager you will not see lots of them, but when the mainstream manufacturers the prickly topic of city mobility with a lot irreverence, the collective disenchantment with fashionable motoring could subside.

After all, for the very best a part of £20,000 you may take your decide from any variety of roomier petrol hatchbacks, and there is even a rising variety of ‘full-size’ electrical vehicles out there for not far more cash. To not point out the dazzling array of larger, smarter and all-around higher alternate options you may decide up second-hand, however do you raise the complete entrance finish off to get into it? Are you able to park them in a bay area on the finish? Can you’re taking the entire sound system with you – in a single hand – once you get out of the automotive?