Slowest new car on sale? Stylish. Fun. Holiday ready. On this new car episode of The Late Brake Show Jonny Smith is in Southern France to review a box fresh revival of a classic – this is the Cassis Eden. It is based upon Citroen’s Mehari all-terrain 2cv based buggy. But aside from being improved in safety and tech, the new version is electric.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:23 What is a Mehari?
1:36 www.driverreviews.com
2:00 Bodyshell
2:55 Chrome and 4×4 bumper kit options
3:45 Rear seats and boot
4:05 Battery location
5:27 DRIVING
10:25 Inside the factory
16:42 FASTER DRIVING
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34 Comments
Love this, just need the house in the Bahamas now.
37 grand is ridiculously way too expensive for what it is 😳😳😳
your 2CV WOULDN'T cost £37 grand today if it was still made
you can buy a new small ordinary electric car for 37 grand
Was interested until you said 35k. That's a lot for a slow runabout that you can't use unless the sun's out.
Such a pure car. I love it!
Fully electric. Jesus Christ. What a waste.
35k for an electric toy ‘ ffs 🤦♂️ What a JOKE!
10:06 Roof color changed?? 🙂 now that's blue! like it better, TBH – oh seats also.. oh it's a different car!
Them headlights 👀. I really cannot unsee the classic Massey Ferguson 155 front lights lol
Car without doors (or roof in my case)
I built a Lomax 3 wheeler kit car based on a 2CV in 1991 and used it every day to go 30 miles round trip to work. 22:28
I don't like French cars to me it ugly I much prefer the mini moke
Very pricey, not doubt, but it is bespoke. Electric?, well personally I’d prefer an efficient 1.0 petrol engine. However, for people staggered at the price, there are morons who pay 200k plus for a Porsche or BWW something or other. I’ll have one of these thanks.
The Gendarmes in the south of France or in the sunny places like the West Indies used to use them as patrol vehicles. They were around till the mid 80’s
Useless fact #453 I have slept in the bedroom where the inventor of the Mehari was born. He was also a a WW2 war hero pilot. The hotel is a Dutch owned château near Issoire.
When I was young we lived in the south of Spain – and my Mum had an orange Mehari! I'm sure at the time it was one of the cheapest new cars available. I can't recall whether we had the fabric doors – I think we might have.
You can slot a BMW 1150 boxer twin bike engine in the originals
I'm honestly impressed how cheap it is.
Safer is very much a relative concept here but I support anything that has an essence of 2CV about it.
You lost me at fully electric 😞
Brilliant! Who cares what it costs, you guys would anyway not buy it even if it was half the price! 😂
elctric no thanks…no more late brake for me.
Stopped watching at "It's fully electric".
Starting to see a few of these around us here in Provence down in the South of France. They look fun but can really hold up the traffic in summer 😂😂😂 They are certainly selling well albeit production is small.
Reminds me of that old joke. Buying a car with no doors – how the hell do you get in? Boom boom.
Would I buy a car with no doors? Yes – and I have but its not a Mehari and its not electric. It is of course a Seven. Also not an everyday car but a lot less money and a little quicker… .. maybe if I lived in Cassis though??
I'm sorry but just stay away from the classics. Do not revamp a classic and put an electric unit in it. Besides that it's absolutley not invirementle. And it's very very sick making. The electric smog is unbelieveble high. I just don't understand that a man like you who love classics is promoting this. Makes me leaving your chanel
Nice, but there is one thing wrong. It should have been fitted with a BMW flat twin engine 😎👍
I think the problem will be the battery. Tweaking the motor will need a bigger battery and it doesn’t need to be heavier 😂😂😂
Very good, just curious why there are no visible reverse lights or rear fog lights?
Surely, one of each are required?
Not something I need but I'm glad they make it and you never know if my Lotto numbers come in!
What a lovely scenery during the intro. 😍 May I ask where it was shot?
Really reminds me of a Volkswagen Thing, like the one Patty & Selma drive (simpsons). Love weird stuff like this! Also, I can’t hear the word “tubular” anymore without visualising Ribbons from the not great Doctor Who episode “It takes you away”.
Love it. An extra benefit of electric is that it seems to be encouraging more quirky, low volume cars.