All posts tagged "microcar"
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WSK
WSK Meduza
17.05.2023Simultaneously with the creation of the Mikrus MR 300 microcar in 1957, an alternative body was...
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Biscuter
Biscuter 2000
13.04.2023The Biscuter 2000 project was born in 1984 with the help of Juan Andreu Socas, who...
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Acedo
Auto-Acedo
22.03.2023The Auto-ACEDO car was developed by the company “Maquinaria Agrícola y Ferrocarril de Alava” and was...
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Haiyan
Haiyan 730 Second Model
14.03.2023This is an updated version of the Haiyan CK730, now equipped with doors. It was first...
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Haiyan
Haiyan 250
14.03.2023This is the three-seat open-top Haiyan 250, powered by a 250cc 2-stroke 1-cylinder Changjiang motorcycle engine....
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Avia
Avia 350
18.01.2023The Avia 350 is an uncommercialized prototype microcar, developed in Czechoslovakia in the mid-1950s. The successful...
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Arola
Arola Type 18
15.01.2023The new 4-wheel Arola Type 18 was introduced in 1981. It is somewhat larger and has...
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Bouffort
Bouffort Minima
13.01.2023As Europe recovered from the devastating World War II, the idea of car sharing emerged as...
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Bouffort
Bouffort Enville
10.01.2023Victor Bouffort’s second three-wheeled vehicle was built in 1961. It was the Enville single-seater microcar which,...
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Boselli
Boselli Libellula
09.01.2023The Boselli brothers founded FB-Mondial, a motorcycle company based in Milan that was active from 1948...
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Qinghua University
Weixing microcars
11.12.2022In the 1950s, the Chinese government encouraged the development of minicars, which were used primarily as...
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Fuji
Fuji Cabin Model 5A
03.01.2022Fuji Cabin was presented at the Tokyo Exhibition in 1955. The car was a tricycle with...
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Home built
Ferenc Grósz Dwarf Car
20.11.2021In the late 1950s, Ferenc Grósz from Hungary and his older son, Ferenc Grósz Jr., made...
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Articles
XEV Shows Off The Battery Replacement Program For Its 3D Printed Car
16.09.2021XEV has introduced its own Yoyo city car battery replacement program. The Chinese manufacturer XEV came...
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Louis Krause Krankenfahrzeugfabrik
Krausemobil
04.08.2021It was built by the private company “Louis Krause Krankenfahrzeugfabrik” from Leipzig in 1961. Designer –...
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Volugrafo
Volugrafo Bimbo
04.03.2021After the ending of the Second World War Italy was in terrible economic situation. But the...
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City Transformer
City Transformer CT-1 Prototype
18.02.2021The City Transformer startup has been around for a long time and news about it appears...
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Mobilize
Mobilize EZ-1
01.02.2021After launching its new Mobilize brand focused on shared mobility, Renault immediately presented the first prototype...
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Jean Pierre Ponthieu
l’Automodule
10.01.2021l’Automodule, this is how this ball on wheels called, was designed back in 1969 by the...
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Articles
Microlino Has Changed Again On The Way To The Mass Production
31.12.2020The Swiss microcar project Microlino, according to the developers, is smoothly moving towards the serial production...
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Gunārs Glūdiņš
Mini (Industrial sample no.22620)
24.10.2020Designer Gunārs Glūdiņš was born in 1938. After primary school Gunārs Glūdiņš studied at the Riga...
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Citroen
Citroën Scarabée d’Or
06.10.2020Citroën Scarabée d’Or was a concept of an all-wheel drive passenger car created in 1990 by...
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SFM
SFM Smyk
04.10.2020In the 50s, microcars become popular in Europe. They were distinguished by simplicity and cheapness. Biuro...
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General Motors
General Motors XP-512E
06.06.2020One of GM’s strangest cars was introduced in 1969 at the GM’s Progress of Power event...
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Home built
Simon Ernő home-built microcar
01.03.2020Ernő Simon was born in St. Petersburg in 1924. As a young assistant he worked at...
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Articles
The new Baojun NEV looks as cute as a puppy
30.12.2019The Chinese joint venture General Motors and SAIC Baojun are known for their fun electric cars,...
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Squad
Squad
30.11.2019The Start-up Squad Mobility, headquartered in Amsterdam, has introduced the L6e-class electric light vehicle. It is...
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Avolette
Avolette
21.11.2019The Avolette was one of many cars whose origins lay with Brutsch, in this case the...
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Trivia
Trivia Rana 500
01.05.2019The old Spanish company Triver was known for producing large, heavy items such as safes and...
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British Leyland
Mini (version for Canada)
17.04.2019Do you know what is cool? Different special versions available only in one particular corner of...
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Ardex
Ardex 50 cc
20.03.2019Ardex is a small French company which started producing cyclecars in 1934. The production was ended in 1943...
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Articles
This restomode Mini Remastered looks like the Classic Mini but costs $100,000
17.03.2019David Brown Automotive unveiled an advanced Mini microcar at the Geneva Motor Show, which received the...
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Volt
Volt e1
27.11.2018The 3-door Volt e1 from Argentina has been designed for two adults and two children under the...
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Home built
Samy
03.10.2018In the mid-60s, the problem of a city car was extremely important. Practical proposals were seen so far,...
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Baojun
Baojun E200
20.07.2018The Chinese SAIC-GM-Wuling joint venture in summer 2018 introduced the second electric microcar under the brand name...
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Video
Watch how Fiat 126 break down twice during this test-drive
02.03.2018I like Fiat 126s so much that my pads are shaking. Fortunately, Youtube has a lot of...
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André
André
18.02.2018This microcar is the creation of a Cannes industrialist P.André. He made it in 1941. It was...
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AEM
AEM Commanchero Six
06.02.2018AEM Commanchero Six is a rare 6-wheel version of the AEM Scout Mini-based microcar. About 20...
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Articles
He buys two Smart Fortwo just to stop others from parking
04.02.2018This owner of a large house in Düsseldorf had the craziest idea that was seen to...
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Articles
You can now buy the perfect Autobianchi Bianchina from RM Sotheby’s Paris
01.02.2018If you were a stylish Italian who wanted to buy a microcar in the 1960s, Fiat...
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Micro
Microlino
27.01.2018The BMW Isetta has a modern successor: the cuddly Microlino with electric drive, front door and...
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Eagle
Eagle EG6330K
16.01.2018China is famous for its copy-cat LSEVs (low-speed electric vehicles). A brand new example is this Eagle...
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American Bantam
American Bantam Model 60 / 62 / 65
14.01.2018American Bantam company was a successor of the American Austin Car Company, which was connected to...
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AMC
AMC Amitron
08.01.2018The AMC Amitron is an electrically powered concept vehicle that was built in 1967 along with Gulton Industries...
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AM
AM
04.01.2018AM is a self-made single-place microcar from the Czech Republic. It had a streamlined body (like racing...
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Alto
Alto Duo
01.01.2018Alto was a British car brand. David Gornall founded the company Alto Component Cars in 1985 in...
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Video
Autozam AZ-1 is tested by Mr.RegularCars
24.12.2017Mr.RegularCars made a review of Autozam AZ-1. This is a two seat gull wing Japan only K-car...
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NAC
NAC Charly III / Charly ES
20.12.2017In 1984, the newly formed company NAC (which means New All Cars ) made an attempt...
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Articles
Brabus will make only ten of very special Ultimate Sunseeker ‘One of Ten’
20.12.2017The exclusive Brabus Ultimate Sunseeker limited edition “One of Ten” is built on the basis of...
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All-Cars
All-Cars Charly 4 / Snuggy 4
17.12.2017The 4-wheel version All-Cars Charly 4 / Snuggy 4 used the same body that the 3-wheeler....
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Uniti
Uniti One EV
11.12.2017In December 2017, Swedish startup Uniti unveiled its crowdfunded electric car Uniti One. The electric city car...
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Alpha
Alpha Z103 / Z104 (アルファ Z103 / Z104)
10.12.2017A Japan company アルファ (or Alpha) produced a pair of microcars: the 3-wheel Z103 and 4-wheel Z104....
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Aleu
Aleu Bambi
08.12.2017In 1954, the motorcycle brand “Manufacturas Aleu, s.l.” presented a 3-wheel microcar called ‘Micro-Auto Bambi’, ‘Bambi’ or ‘Autobambi’....
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Alco
Alco
07.12.2017The German company Kleinschnittger made the F250 microcar with an open body between 1950 and 1957. A licensed...
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Alba
Alba Regia
04.12.2017In 1955, the Hungarian Ministry of Metallurgy and Machine Industry commissioned three engineers: Ernő Rubik, Pál...
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AIXAM
Aixam Crossline 2016-p.t.
03.12.2017AIXAM Crossline — the biggest model in the current model lineup is produced since 2010. In 2016,...
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SEAB
SEAB Flipper
29.11.2017This is 1978 SEAB Flipper — the car that you can drive without a driving license. The...
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Minauto
Minauto ECO / GT / Cross
24.11.2017The subsidiary of the French group Aixam-Mega Ibérica in Spain developed its own model called Minauto in 2009 to...
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Video
Jason Drives an odd 1954 Martin Stationette
16.11.2017Another series of Jason Drives is about this so-called ‘Three-wheeled Log Cabin’. If you’re like the...
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AIXAM
Aixam GTO
11.11.2017AIXAM GTO is based on the City model and features sporty exterior and interior design, such...
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Video
The story of a 1963 NSU Prinz L
10.11.2017YouTube channel Take to the Road posted a new video about 1963 NSU Prinz L. They went to Ireland...
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AIXAM
Aixam Crossline 2010-2016
09.11.2017In 2010, AIXAM presented the second generation of Crossline model. The official brochure says: “Its rounded...
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Articles
Microcar project: Mobuno Urban Mobility Concept
09.11.2017Mobuno is a design project by xoio and IUM ( Institute of Urban Mobility). The main idea...
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AIXAM
Aixam City 2010-2016
08.11.2017The City is the most compact model in the AIXAM range. The second generation of AIXAM...
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Zhidou
Zhidou D3
07.11.2017November 2017, sales of a budget electric microcar Zhidou D3 started in China. It costs only $7,500, equivalent to the...
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Articles
From concept to Swedish roads in four years — Uniti microcar comming soon
03.11.2017Uniti Swedish car manufacturing goes into the next phase. “A few hundred kilo heavy car that...
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AIXAM
Aixam Roadline
02.11.2017Aixam Roadline which came to replace A.741&A.751 is the longer version of the Aixam City. With Roadline,...
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AIXAM
Aixam City 2008-2010
31.10.2017The Aixam City is a short sedan that driving without a license. It came in 2008...
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Articles
Flesby II — a microcar of the future with soft body panels
27.10.2017The Tokyo Motor Show features exciting and bizarre concept vehicles every year. Despite striking technical developments in...
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AIXAM
Aixam Scouty
26.10.2017The AIXAM Scouty is the first no-license convertible with a hard top! As soon as the...
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AIXAM
Aixam Crossline 2006-2010
22.10.2017The AIXAM Crossline is the version of the 700 range with more spacious microvan body. Its specific...
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AIXAM
Aixam A.721
21.10.2017In 2004, at the Paris Motor Show Aixam presented the new model range consisted of a...
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Articles
Smart presents Brabus ForTwo And ForFour ‘Disturbing London’ Edition
17.07.2017Specially for the British market, Smart has teamed up with the entertainment company ‘Disturbing London’ to bring...
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AWZ
AWZ P70
14.07.2017AWZ P70, the successor to the IFA F8, was manufactured by Audi factory (internal designation F8 K)....
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Tata
Tata Nano
14.07.2017The Nano is one of the boldest and most fascinating back-to-basics small cars since the original...
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Volkswagen
Volkswagen Beetle
11.07.2017Surely the most extraordinary success story in the history of the automobile, Volkswagen Beetle began life...
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BMW
BMW Z21 ‘Just 4/2’
10.07.2017Something of a historical and engineering curiosity, the BMW Z21 ‘Just 4/2’ was a 1995 study...
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Video
Check this cute Goggomobile after V8 swap
10.07.2017Aussie guys love to use V8 under the hood of cars where one never existed before. And this...
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BMW
BMW 700
18.06.2017The story of the BMW 700 is, uncharacteristically for BMW, one of corporate dissent, division, and...
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BMW
BMW 600
14.06.2017BMW 600 microcar was another tiny model of the company based on the 2-seater Isetta 300....
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BMW
BMW Isetta 250 / 300 ‘Bubble Window’
10.06.2017Conscious that its mainstay motorcycle sales were slowing as rising German prosperity in the 1950s encouraged...
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Crosley
Crosley HotShot / Super Sports
07.06.2017Cincinnati radio-and-refrigerator magnate Powel Crosley, Jr., entered the car business in 1939 with dreams of an...
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Smart
Smart City Coupe
06.06.2017The iconic Smart city car has its genesis in watchmaking rather than the automotive world, because...
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Renault
Renault Zoom
27.05.2017The chaotic free-for-all that is parking in Paris has often provided inspiration to French car designers....
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Ligier
Ligier JS4
20.05.2017Guy Ligier—Formula One team owner, motorway construction tycoon, and confidante of French president François Mitterrand—was an...
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Stimson
Stimson Scorcher
20.05.2017Britain’s licensing authorities weren’t too sure what to make of the Stimson Scorcher in 1976, hesitatingly...
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Lepoix
Lepoix Ding
19.05.2017The French-born industrial designer Louis Lepoix was probably best known for his commercial vehicles and household...
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Zagato
Zagato Zele 1000
19.05.2017Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Italian coachbuilder Zagato was a byword for motoring excitement—a dream factory...
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Fiat
Fiat 500 Nuova
17.05.2017Despite Fiat’s 1936 500 “Topolino” being a well-liked little car in its day, the Nuova 500...
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Powerdrive
Powerdrive
17.05.2017In the arcane world of British microcars, David Gottlieb is a near-mythical figure. The designer of...
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AIXAM
AIXAM 500 Pick-up
01.05.2017The AIXAM Evolution range includes one commercial version – AIXAM 500.4 Pick-Up. It is available in...
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AIXAM
AIXAM 400 / 500 Revolution
09.04.2017In 1997, AIXAM launched a new “silent AIXAM” generation of microcars, which called Revolution. AIXAM takes an...
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AIXAM
AIXAM A550 Twin
04.04.2017In 1995, the updated model AIXAM A 550 Twin came to replace 500 I & 500...
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AIXAM
AIXAM 600 i / 600 GLi
12.03.2017AIXAM 600 i & 600 GLi was the top model in the company’s range. It was...
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AIXAM
AIXAM 400 i / GLi & 500 i / GLi
20.02.2017AIXAM presented another addition to its range – the 400 i / GLi model – in...
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AIXAM
AIXAM 325 i / 325 GLi
12.02.2017In 1987, AIXAM presented a new generation of its smallest microcar which was called AIXAM 325i....
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AIXAM
AIXAM 400 D
08.02.2017AIXAM completes the range шт 1985 with the launch of its first TQM (speed: 75 km/h...
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AIXAM
AIXAM 325 D
05.02.2017AIXAM 325 D become the first microcar made by a newly formed company AIXAM. The production...
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AISA
AISA
02.02.2017AISA microcar was made by Actividades Industriales, SA, located at Cervera Lleida, Spain. The company was founded by Martí...
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Airway
Airway
31.01.2017The Airway was an American microcar with two seats, made by Everett Miller and T. P....