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We love the Citroën Ami here at Road & Track, but the tiny electric vehicle isn’t meant for spirited driving. The microcar’s odd proportions make it ill-suited for hard cornering, and speeding through a hairpin could prove disastrous. One driver found this out the hard way at the most famous hairpin on any public road in the world, the Monaco Grand Prix circuit’s signature corner.
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In a video shared by YouTuber Benelux Supercars, the Citroën can be seen navigating the corner with significant body roll in one direction. The car stops when going uphill. However, when it comes back the other way, that body roll quickly becomes a serious problem. The car starts to tip over early in the corner and rolls onto the passenger side at the apex. The roof hit a bollard and rebounded sideways onto the road.
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Footage from outside the corner shows more of the Ami running successfully through the corner at full speed before rolling over. When it finally overturned, it slid sideways a few meters before hitting the bollard protecting pedestrians with the back of the car roof.
At some point, Citroën Amis should be available in both Portland and Washington, DC as part of a third-party ridesharing program. Free2Move doesn’t list Amis on their website today as available for rent in either market, but if you can find one in America please don’t try to find the corner speeds at which it rolls over.