Heritage
A design like this could only come from a nation that designed the lethal Auto Union Grand Prix cars (and the similarly lethal early VWs and Porsches), the Heinkel and Messerschmitt bubble cars, the plastic-reinforced-with-cotton Trabant and the Goggomobil.
A great joke, but a joke nevertheless.
And who knows, it might stimulate someone to move on from this idea and do better.