Killed off Comuta

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The issue of fossil fuel – or more precisely its predicted dry-out of resources – has given engineers headaches ever since it came into discussion. It lead to a huge amount of concept cars, too. The boom of these followed after the 1973 and 1978 oil crises, but there were more. The Ford Comuta, seen here, is just one of them. Designed and developed alongside the GT40 at Ford UK in the mid-1960s, the tiny Comuta was meant as a ‘non-polluting car for urban and suburban motoring’. Power came from four 12-Volt batteries which supposedly gave it a 40 mph top speed and 40 miles range.

Pretty clever little thing, eh? Despite being really small we think it was pretty good looking, too. Also: Ford didn’t forget the marketing side of things, either, photographing two of them along a barge of their own make. Plus with some fashionable girls like the one above, and even with Twiggy for heaven’s sake, who was at the prime of her career at the time. So what went wrong here? Conspiracy theories in the box below, please.

(Words Jeroen Booij, pictures courtesy Ford UK) 

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