I had a go on/in one of these yesterday
I have to say, apart from the stupid name, I was quite impressed with it. Only 2WD at the moment, but there's a 4WD coming out soon, although looking at it on YouTube
HERE and
HERE, I'm not certain 4WD is needed. It's also fully homologated in France, so totally fine for driving in Europe (not certain about the rest of the world, but being Chinese made I imagine maybe it'd be all right there). It's even got a winch fitted as standard.
It got me thinking, perhaps, just perhaps it might be an interesting adventure vehicle. It's got the "open air, in touch with the world-ness" of a bike, but the "not fall over in the mud and sand-ness" of a car/truck - good for a person like me who err can't actually ride a motorbike.
Sure there's downsides, it's a bit noisy, a bit slow at only 90kph, and doesn't at the moment have either that big a fuel tank (15litres) or any luggage space. But the last two are easy to work round and how often do you actually want to go more than 90kph off road anyway?
Anyone want to talk me down off my buggy induced high, or should we let the Panda 4x4 stay happily in the garage, and take two of these to China instead?