The Skoda Element Is The Adorable Beach Buggy The World Needs Right Now
These days, the online world seems to be mostly full of scary things and overly-opinionated people shouting at each other. With that in mind, let us give you a few minutes of calming solace as we bring you something small, cute and utterly inoffensive: the Skoda Element.
It’s not - I’m afraid - a production car, rather a one-off piece of work created by a group of students from the Skoda Vocational School. Taking a Citigo and completely reworking the bodywork, the students have created a door-less, open-top, all-electric beach buggy, and it might just be the most adorable car we’ve ever seen.
It’s been given a 60mm increase in ground clearance, underbody protection and solar panels on the rear deck. The panels power a smart TV, a 400-watt sound system and - my favourite part - an electric cool box. How can you not love this thing?
The Element - the fourth vehicle built by the Skoda Vocational School - is powered by an 81bhp electric motor, powering it from 0-62mph in a leisurely 13 seconds. The 18.7 kWh battery under the floor gives a range of up to 100 miles, dependent on how you drive/how many drinks you stuff in the cool box.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Smart TV,sound system and a cool box?
Pimp my ride skoda edition
Xzibit’s show, except its only for Skodas.
Except this one actually looks nice
Just put it into production Skoda. We know you want to…
Maybe a good alternative for the UP ;D
Just cut the roof of a seat leon and raise height and you have a cool. Buggy
Laughed at “ Vocational School”.
The roofless design isn’t the only thing that didn’t have protection.
I wish car companies made more one off limited edition things like this
Why no 4 seats tho
Thsi won’t even work on a gravel track let alone a beach
I beg to differ, we once smashed a Seat Leon estate down a gravel track and it worked fine. It slide on its bottom a bit but it is good for what it is
The element I want
They should’ve called it the Beachgo, since it is based on a Citigo (which is meant for city driving) but its made for going to the beach
THIS