Welcome to Thursday Trivia where we offer up a historical automotive trivia question and you try and solve it before seeing the answer after the jump. It’s like a history test, with cars! This weeks’ question: How tall is the world record lowest road-worthy car? If you think you know the answer, make the jump and see how you stack up. The GT40 has long been noted for its slinky low profile. The Ferrari-dominating Ford is famous for that feature, its name even referencing the 40-inch height that was so low that driver Dan Gurney required his own bubble in the roof-wrapping door to fit his helmet. That Ford seemed impossibly low, and there were road-going editions – fully 7 MkIII road cars were built and sold – but it’s far from the lowest street-legal car, and in fact, the car that holds the World’s record for low-ness is fully half the Ford’s height. And that is the Guinness-certified Mirai, designed and built by the Automobile Engineering Course of Okayama Sanyo High School in Asakuchi, Japan.   From Guinness World Records:

The lowest roadworthy car measures 45.2 cm (17.79 in) from the ground to highest part of the car and is called “Mirai”. It was created by students and teachers of The Automobile Engineering Course of Okayama Sanyo High School in Asakuchi, Japan, on 15 November 2010. “Mirai” means ‘future’ in Japanese. The car runs on six main batteries. The driving unit (motors and controlling components, including batteries) are from “Q-car”, produced by CQ motors (Japan). Switching console is from a motorbike. The chassis (steel), body (ERP), suspension, steering system, lights (LED), seat and all other parts were made at the High School. Previous projects on the course have included building an amphibious car and a huge glider plane.

The previous record holder – the Flatmobile by British customizer Perry Watkins – was fully 1.3-inches taller than the Mirai. Image: Guinness World Records.