Patak’s “Rodster”: Looks like an old-school sports car, but it’s not a legal car.
Image: Patak Motors
Cars are getting bigger and heavier. This is a problem in the cities in particular. Can you get to your destination in a more environmentally friendly and fun way with microcars? A test drive.
If you pull up in a rather conspicuous and not quiet orange sports car, you will not be greeted in the same friendly way by everyone these days. However, when we recently rolled through the streets of Bratislava in the Patak prototype, there was indeed nothing but waving and laughing, a few boys giving thumbs up, a woman interrupting a conversation and taking a few steps towards the car, an old man , who was just biting into a fresh Pagac Syrovy at an intersection, spontaneously raised his fist to the sky, which could be taken as approval. The only one looking less than pleased was a parking attendant, who lunged at the car and Patak Motors’ Michal Vršek as he parked the car on the pavement outside the Mint Café next to a couple of scooters after the test drive.
Cars are not allowed to park on the sidewalk, he explained.