Mystery vehicle in UPS commercial

[Jim Janecek]

can anyone recognize the little vehicle driving along in Italy in this commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgui8TeJ57o

It is not visible for very long.  Everything else in the commercial shows real delivery vehicles, is this something that is actually used for deliveries?

[daughter of bamby]

looks like a council gocart painted to look like a ups truck to me.

[Bob Purton]

We get that advert in the uk too and I have often wondered. I thought it may be a Q Pod but freeze framing and looking closer now I'm not so sure.

[Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker)]

It the Free Duck by Ducati Energia, an electric/hybrid with a 100cc four stoke as well as electric motor. Recently gone on trial with UPS in several Italian cities following successful trials with a similar but slightly different version with the Italian post office. - I couldn't find any links in English!

http://tiny.cc/tzae1

http://tiny.cc/p82ea

Pdf leaflet for the original version

http://www.ducatienergia.it/staging/pdf/veicoli_elettrici/FreeDUCk_ENG_leaflet.pdf

[Jim Janecek]

info in english here:

http://www.freeduck.eu/

[Stuart Cyphus]

 Now there's a modern I like the look of!    Though for some reason I keep wanting to call it the Freedom Duck. - Much better name if you ask me....   

[marcus]

From the side it looks a bit like a Peel Trident body with huge side doors jacked up above a Smart chassis, not bad. With UPS now set to take over the Royal Mail we may see them here too.

I wonder if UK is EVER going to stop the sell off of our businesses to other countries, our leaders and bankers seem hell-bent on selling off everything, they should be locked up.

[Big Al]

Better than the Toilet Duck.

Three flying across the back of my garage would look great.

I can see Root in one of these and, off course, he is hybrid powered too, so that works.

It fits with Italy as they have a history of miniture commercial vehicles which Britain has not. Things might change in urban areas.

[Big Al]

I wonder if UK is EVER going to stop the sell off of our businesses to other countries, our leaders and bankers seem hell-bent on selling off everything, they should be locked up.

Cannot lock them up as they sold the keys.
When you are bankrupt, or near it, then you have to sell off the family heirlooms. We have been nearly bust for half of New Labour's Government. It was covered up by loans, paper, moving the tax year forward twice and creative accounting. This is why we are now in the poo and realisation is just dawning on the masses who voted for these gibbons that life is not going to continue to be easy. There is no money and few assets left! Why would a British wealth owner want to invest in Britain? We have just been told you have to share your money, if you have any left, with the people who lost theirs or never had it. Is not going to happen.  It will remain secretly being used offshore where the Chancellor cannot get at it. A failure of policy I quite understand as it is self serving. Especially as property is about to fall of a cliff and to recover we expect serious inflation. We need to create a climate where it is worth investing in Britain pretty fast. British Post Office - taxed and administered by British system of high overheads vs Foreign owner only running a company in our system but taking the profit elsewhere on cheaper overheads. No competition is it? Reality is we are too expensive to run a business from which is why I retired early.