Messerschmitts v Spitfires

Just been watching an Episode of Chasing Classic Cars where Wayne Carini was at an auction where they were selling one of these:

...a Messerschmitt KR200.

 

Which is a slight coincidence because today's Autocar Throwback Thursday was looking at their old report on...

 

...the Messerschmitt KR200!

 

How big is your wife?

 

I only ask because, according to the review from 1957:

 

"at the back there is a bench which will hold a small wife and child, or a larger wife and a shopping basket."

 

Meanwhile, the interesting bit for me was that I would be allowed to use the reverse gears but if I only had a motorbike licence (they were more popular in the '50s) I would only be allowed to go forward.

 

However, I'd rather have a Spitfire myself: