On calls them “sans p”, for “without a permit”. In town, these carts, half of which are now sold to minors, are transforming the car parks of the most upscale high schools into dealership showrooms. In the imagination of the car without a licence, the grandpa with an open-window rolling bob has been replaced by a young person in a Canada Goose who flirts with his “sans P”.
Accessible from 14 years old since 2018, they only ask the youngest for the AM license and to convince their parents
The star of them is the Citroën Ami, whose line is halfway between the Apéricube and those dogs whose front and rear we cannot distinguish, and which its young owners like to customize like a hull. of iPhone. According to the automaker, in 85% of orders, it is a complementary vehicle that replaces a two-wheeler and 70% of its users live in small towns or in rural areas.
In the countryside, the “without P” have become the means of transport for students in learning. Accessible from the age of 14 since 2018, they only ask the youngest for the AM license and to convince their parents – which sometimes can take much longer than the eight hours of compulsory training to obtain this road safety certificate.
How do we recognize them?
Contrary to the manufacturers, the young drivers of “without P” never use the word “quadricycle”. They succeeded in making their parents believe that it would be less dangerous than a two-wheeler, that if their neighborhood or their village were better served, they would not have needed it and that at least they would be safe. shelter and warm. They promised they wouldn’t put a buddy in the trunk, but have already tried to count how many people and how many guitars one could fit.
In town, their neighbors hide when they see them coming. In the countryside, their teachers fulminate when, on the road, they find themselves behind their student at 40 kilometers per hour on a straight line of 3 kilometers. They can explain that renting, apart from the first rent, compared to a telephone package, is not much more expensive. They had already used the argument “all my friends have them” to have a smartphone, five years earlier.
They always know the price of the most high-end unlicensed cart on the market to make theirs look like a bargain. They don’t like people saying it’s for rich kids. They are convinced that there was no other solution. They feel like they have joined the adult world since they can complain about not finding a parking space or pedestrians crossing anywhere. Their parents believed that “without P” meant “Sanpellegrino”.
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