I know - it doesn’t make much sense. It would be possible to get trapped between the wheels and the bumpers - which may be the reason. Mind you, if you were that close to any moving car’s wheels, you’re not going to come out of it too well.

The Exige 111R does have a wind screen (shield).

Here in the UK, there are a lot of small car builders - usually from kits (the Caterham is effectively a kit car based on the Lotus 7), and each has to go through a “small vehicle test” to determine its safety. It is very, very tough and rigorous.

Production models will usually go through a similar kind of test, but that is handled differently - with each model configuration requiring certification. This is a costly process, and if the SVC were not available, companies like Caterham and Morgan would be shutting up shop.

Imported cars also have to undergo a test. It’s more likely that the Prowlers were imported individually, which would mean that rules at the time of import would have allowed them in. When the rules were changed, the import of Prowlers would have stopped, and there would certainly have been no chance of them being sold here by Chrysler without modifications.

So what we have here is a rarity in the UK. There are, I am lead to believe, about 12 in the country, and you could look to pay around of £30,000 for one second hand. I have no idea how this compares to prices in the USA, but I would think that it’s quite a lot.