At long and wide and with an unladen weight of , the P50 holds the record as the smallest car ever to go into production. At least one prototype, the
Peel P55 Saloon Scooter, has also survived. Unlike the production Peel P50 (along with all developments and replicas thereof), this prototype used the less stable layout of a single wheel at the front and two at the back. Approximately 47 Peel P50s were sold at £299 each. On 15 February 2013 at the Bruce Weiner RM Auction a genuine 1964 Peel P50 (Registration number ARX 37B) achieved in excess of ().
Top Gear review Jeremy Clarkson reviewed the Peel P50 in
season 10 episode 3 (2007) of
Top Gear. Clarkson, who is tall, drove a blue P50 across
London and inside the
BBC building, showing that the P50 could fit inside corridors and even in an elevator. In his review, Clarkson described the P50 as a car "perfect ... for the roads of today" given its reduced size, low consumes, and overall cheapness, also commenting that "[it] was introduced as almost cheaper than walking". Despite it lacking a reverse gear, he called it "the future" and "absolutely brilliant".
Since 2011 In 2011 businessmen Gary Hillman and Faizal Khan went to the ''
Dragons' Den'' asking for £80,000. They got the investment and started a new company to put their revised models into production. Three replica models were available initially: Gas, Eco and Fun. The line was later reduced to two: the Petrol and Electric models. These are hand-built to order in
Sutton-in-Ashfield by Micro Car Specialists for the domestic and export markets. In 2018 it was reported that Peel Engineering sells around fifteen P50s annually, plus ten or so continuations of its bigger sister, the two-seat bubblecar
Peel Trident. The conventional piston engined P50 is more requested in the UK, priced at £14,879 – whereas greater demand for the Peel comes from the US, where the electric model (at £13,679) helps owners to comply with emissions regulations. == Legal status ==