This is the North American version of the Mitsubishi i-Miev. It’s a substantially bigger than the Japanese version. It’s 11.2 inches longer, 4.3 inches wider and 0.2 inches taller. You know, because North Americans are so fat that making it bigger is necessary.
But what really caught my eye aside from the obvious bump in size was something in the picture above. Look closely. Notice anything strange? I mean, aside from the rather odd bubble like shape, do you notice anything specifically off?
I’ll help you out. Look at the windshield wipers. Is that a third wiper? Or maybe it’s two wipers with the passenger side wiper being angled at a 90 degrees. In any event, it’s a really strange set up and I’m not quite sure what the advantages would be. Since it’s 4.3 inches wider, that naturally means a wider windshield, so you would have to alter the wipers, but isn’t that just as simple as using bigger wipers? I checked out pictures of the Japenese i-Miev and it appears to have regular wipers. Weird.
Anyway, the all-electric i-Miev should make it’s North American debut in 2011. We’ll get better pics and maybe even an explanation well before then, I’m sure.
[Mitsubishi]