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What Would a Machine Created Purely for the Pleasure of Driving Look Like?

It would look like the Vanderhall Venice Speedster

By Rain Noe - August 24, 2018

in Cars

Now that I live out in the country and own a car again, I've remembered something: Driving is fun. But there are practical considerations that prevent us from getting close to what we might think of as a pure driving experience. We need to carry passengers; we need to haul groceries; we need vehicles large enough to protect our families from other vehicles in the event of a crash.

But what if we could do away with all of those things, and have a machine for the sole, selfish purpose of driving off into the distance, alone? What would it look like?

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I think it would look like Vanderhall's Venice Speedster.

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A variant of Vanderhall's two-seater Venice with the passenger seat "deleted," the Speedster is about as minimal a car as you can get. While it's only got a 1.4-liter four-cylinder turbo under the hood, it's good for 180 horsepower, which in a vehicle this small should provide all the power you'd want. Imagine being this low to the ground and with so little "car" between you and the road:

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The Speedster will debut later this year, and should retail for around 27 grand.

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Alan Nomoto

6 years ago

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Wonderful concept! It may be interesting to look at what we define asa a “need”. We can look around us in any traffic jam & see huge SUV’s carrying ONE occupant carrying ONE backpack or better yet, cellphone. The efficiency if a small design is a great by-product of an enjoyable ride.

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Juan Cano

6 years ago

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I've recently have had the luck of inheriting two hot-rods that my father in law built, and driving them is what driving should be: On edge, tense, feeling of the road, no power steering, bare minimum. I imagine this roadster is like that.

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