What It's Like to Drive a 121-Year Old Sportscar

If you ate a magic time donut and travelled back to the year 1895 with the intent of buying a sports car, do you have any idea what you'd buy? It doesn't matter, because you'd really only have one choice: the Bollée Voiturette. This single-cylinder, three-horsepower, mid-engined monster was, arguably, the first production sports car ever made. Galpin Motors' very own Beau Boeckmann invited Jason to put this thesis to the test on his 1897 Léon Bollée Voiturette. --------------------------- Subscribe to Jalopnik: http://bit.ly/2Nvw7Ew Visit us at: http://jalopnik.com/ Like us at:   / jalopnik   Follow us at:   / jalopnik   View us:   / jalopnik   Watch more from Jalopnik friends: Splinter: https://goo.gl/BwuJiy Gizmodo: https://goo.gl/YTRLAE Kotaku: https://goo.gl/OcnXv7 Deadspin: https://goo.gl/An7N8g Jezebel: https://goo.gl/XNsnCJ Lifehacker: https://goo.gl/3rNmzw io9: https://goo.gl/ismnzP Sploid: https://goo.gl/4yq2UY The Root: https://goo.gl/QMOjBE Earther: https://goo.gl/nxgn48 Drive free or die! https://jalopnik.com