All posts tagged "microcar"

Haishen

Haishen HS6250A / HS6250B

In February 1994, the third and most production-oriented version of FAW’s project to create an affordable...

Piaggio

Piaggio Vettura Concept

The Piaggio Vettura Concept, revealed in 1974, was a daring departure for the Italian scooter maker...

WSK

WSK Meduza

Simultaneously with the creation of the Mikrus MR 300 microcar in 1957, an alternative body was...

Biscuter

Biscuter 2000

The Biscuter 2000 project was born in 1984 with the help of Juan Andreu Socas, who...

Acedo

Auto-Acedo

The Auto-ACEDO car was developed by the company “Maquinaria Agrícola y Ferrocarril de Alava” and was...

Haiyan

Haiyan 730 Second Model

This is an updated version of the Haiyan CK730, now equipped with doors. It was first...

Haiyan

Haiyan 250

This is the three-seat open-top Haiyan 250, powered by a 250cc 2-stroke 1-cylinder Changjiang motorcycle engine....

Avia

Avia 350

The Avia 350 is an uncommercialized prototype microcar, developed in Czechoslovakia in the mid-1950s. The successful...

Arola

Arola Type 18

The new 4-wheel Arola Type 18 was introduced in 1981. It is somewhat larger and has...

Bouffort

Bouffort Minima

As Europe recovered from the devastating World War II, the idea of car sharing emerged as...

Bouffort

Bouffort Enville

Victor Bouffort’s second three-wheeled vehicle was built in 1961. It was the Enville single-seater microcar which,...

Boselli

Boselli Libellula

The Boselli brothers founded FB-Mondial, a motorcycle company based in Milan that was active from 1948...

Qinghua University

Weixing microcars

In the 1950s, the Chinese government encouraged the development of minicars, which were used primarily as...

Fuji

Fuji Cabin Model 5A

Fuji Cabin was presented at the Tokyo Exhibition in 1955. The car was a tricycle with...

Home built

Ferenc Grósz Dwarf Car

In the late 1950s, Ferenc Grósz from Hungary and his older son, Ferenc Grósz Jr., made...

Articles

XEV Shows Off The Battery Replacement Program For Its 3D Printed Car

XEV has introduced its own Yoyo city car battery replacement program. The Chinese manufacturer XEV came...

Louis Krause Krankenfahrzeugfabrik

Krausemobil

The Krausemobil was built in 1961 by the private company Louis Krause Krankenfahrzeugfabrik in Leipzig, to...

Volugrafo

Volugrafo Bimbo

After the ending of the Second World War Italy was in terrible economic situation. But the...

City Transformer

City Transformer CT-1 Prototype

The City Transformer startup has been around for a long time and news about it appears...

Mobilize

Mobilize EZ-1

After launching its new Mobilize brand focused on shared mobility, Renault immediately presented the first prototype...

Jean Pierre Ponthieu

l’Automodule

l’Automodule, this is how this ball on wheels called, was designed back in 1969 by the...

Articles

Microlino Has Changed Again On The Way To The Mass Production

The Swiss microcar project Microlino, according to the developers, is smoothly moving towards the serial production...

Gunārs Glūdiņš

Mini (Industrial sample no.22620)

Gunārs Glūdiņš (1938–2020) was a Latvian industrial designer. After studying at the Riga Industrial Polytechnic he...

Citroen

Citroën Scarabée d’Or

Citroën Scarabée d’Or was a concept of an all-wheel drive passenger car created in 1990 by...

SFM

SFM Smyk

In the 50s, microcars become popular in Europe. They were distinguished by simplicity and cheapness. Biuro...

General Motors

General Motors XP-512E

One of GM’s strangest cars was introduced in 1969 at the GM’s Progress of Power event...

Home built

Simon Ernő home-built microcar

Ernő Simon was born in St. Petersburg in 1924. As a young assistant he worked at...

Articles

The new Baojun NEV looks as cute as a puppy

The Chinese joint venture General Motors and SAIC Baojun are known for their fun electric cars,...

Squad

Squad

The Start-up Squad Mobility, headquartered in Amsterdam, has introduced the L6e-class electric light vehicle. It is...

Avolette

Avolette

The Avolette was one of many cars whose origins lay with Brutsch, in this case the...

Trivia

Trivia Rana 500

The old Spanish company Triver was known for producing large, heavy items such as safes and...

British Leyland

Mini (version for Canada)

Do you know what is cool? Different special versions available only in one particular corner of...

Ardex

Ardex 50 cc

Ardex is a small French company which started producing cyclecars in 1934. The production was ended in 1943...

Articles

This restomode Mini Remastered looks like the Classic Mini but costs $100,000

David Brown Automotive unveiled an advanced Mini microcar at the Geneva Motor Show, which received the...

Volt

Volt e1

The 3-door Volt e1 from Argentina has been designed for two adults and two children under the...

Home built

Samy

In the mid-60s, the problem of a city car was extremely important. Practical proposals were seen so far,...

Baojun

Baojun E200

The Chinese SAIC-GM-Wuling joint venture in summer 2018 introduced the second electric microcar under the brand name...

Video

Watch how Fiat 126 break down twice during this test-drive

I like Fiat 126s so much that my pads are shaking. Fortunately, Youtube has a lot of...

André

André

This microcar was the creation of P. André, an industrialist from Cannes, who made it in...

AEM

AEM Commanchero Six

The AEM Commanchero Six is a rare six-wheel version of the AEM Scout, a Mini-based utility...

Articles

He buys two Smart Fortwo just to stop others from parking

This owner of a large house in Düsseldorf had the craziest idea that was seen to...

Articles

You can now buy the perfect Autobianchi Bianchina from RM Sotheby’s Paris

If you were a stylish Italian who wanted to buy a microcar in the 1960s, Fiat...

Micro

Microlino

The BMW Isetta has a modern successor: the cuddly Microlino with electric drive, front door and...

Eagle

Eagle EG6330K

China is famous for its copy-cat LSEVs (low-speed electric vehicles). A brand new example is this Eagle...

American Bantam

American Bantam Model 60 / 62 / 65

American Bantam company was a successor of the American Austin Car Company, which was connected to...

AMC

AMC Amitron

The AMC Amitron is an electrically powered concept vehicle that was built in 1967 along with Gulton Industries...

AM

AM

AM is a self-made, single-seat microcar from the Czech Republic. It had a streamlined body, in...

Alto

Alto Duo

Alto was a British car brand. David Gornall founded the company Alto Component Cars in 1985 in...

Video

Autozam AZ-1 is tested by Mr.RegularCars

Mr.RegularCars made a review of Autozam AZ-1. This is a two seat gull wing Japan only K-car...

NAC

NAC Charly III / Charly ES

In 1984, the newly formed company NAC (which means New All Cars ) made an attempt...

Articles

Brabus will make only ten of very special Ultimate Sunseeker ‘One of Ten’

The exclusive Brabus Ultimate Sunseeker limited edition “One of Ten” is built on the basis of...

All-Cars

All-Cars Charly 4 / Snuggy 4

The 4-wheel version All-Cars Charly 4 / Snuggy 4 used the same body that the 3-wheeler....

Uniti

Uniti One EV

In December 2017, Swedish startup Uniti unveiled its crowdfunded electric car Uniti One. The electric city car...

Alpha

Alpha Z103 / Z104 (アルファ Z103 / Z104)

A Japan company アルファ (or Alpha) produced a pair of microcars: the 3-wheel Z103 and 4-wheel Z104....

Aleu

Aleu Bambi

In 1954, the motorcycle brand “Manufacturas Aleu, s.l.” presented a 3-wheel microcar called ‘Micro-Auto Bambi‘, ‘Bambi’ or ‘Autobambi’....

Alco

Alco

The German company Kleinschnittger made the F250 microcar with an open body between 1950 and 1957. A licensed...

Alba

Alba Regia

In 1955, the Hungarian Ministry of Metallurgy and Machine Industry commissioned three engineers: Ernő Rubik, Pál...

AIXAM

Aixam Crossline 2016-p.t.

AIXAM Crossline — the biggest model in the current model lineup is produced since 2010. In 2016,...

SEAB

SEAB Flipper

This is 1978 SEAB Flipper — the car that you can drive without a driving license. The...

Minauto

Minauto ECO / GT / Cross

The subsidiary of the French group Aixam-Mega Ibérica in Spain developed its own model called Minauto in 2009 to...

Video

Jason Drives an odd 1954 Martin Stationette

Another series of Jason Drives is about this so-called ‘Three-wheeled Log Cabin’. If you’re like the...

AIXAM

Aixam GTO

AIXAM GTO is based on the City model and features sporty exterior and interior design, such...

Video

The story of a 1963 NSU Prinz L

YouTube channel Take to the Road posted a new video about 1963 NSU Prinz L. They went to Ireland...

AIXAM

Aixam Crossline 2010-2016

In 2010, AIXAM presented the second generation of Crossline model. The official brochure says: “Its rounded...

Articles

Microcar project: Mobuno Urban Mobility Concept

Mobuno is a design project by xoio and IUM ( Institute of Urban Mobility). The main idea...

AIXAM

Aixam City 2010-2016

The City is the most compact model in the AIXAM range. The second generation of AIXAM...

Zhidou

Zhidou D3

November 2017, sales of a budget electric microcar Zhidou D3 started in China. It costs only $7,500, equivalent to the...

Articles

From concept to Swedish roads in four years — Uniti microcar comming soon

Uniti Swedish car manufacturing goes into the next phase. “A few hundred kilo heavy car that...

AIXAM

Aixam Roadline

Aixam Roadline which came to replace A.741&A.751 is the longer version of the Aixam City.  With...

AIXAM

Aixam City 2008-2010

The Aixam City is a short sedan that driving without a license. It came in 2008...

Articles

Flesby II — a microcar of the future with soft body panels

The Tokyo Motor Show features exciting and bizarre concept vehicles every year. Despite striking technical developments in...

AIXAM

Aixam Scouty

The AIXAM Scouty is the first no-license convertible with a hard top! As soon as the...

AIXAM

Aixam Crossline 2006-2010

The AIXAM Crossline is the version of the 700 range with more spacious microvan body. Its specific...

AIXAM

Aixam A.721

In 2004, at the Paris Motor Show Aixam presented the new model range consisted of a...

Articles

Smart presents Brabus ForTwo And ForFour ‘Disturbing London’ Edition

Specially for the British market, Smart has teamed up with the entertainment company ‘Disturbing London’ to bring...

AWZ

AWZ P70

AWZ P70, the successor to the IFA F8, was manufactured by Audi factory (internal designation F8 K)....

Tata

Tata Nano

The Nano is one of the boldest and most fascinating back-to-basics small cars since the original...

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Beetle

Surely the most extraordinary success story in the history of the automobile, Volkswagen Beetle began life...

BMW

BMW Z21 ‘Just 4/2’

Something of a historical and engineering curiosity, the BMW Z21 ‘Just 4/2’ was a 1995 study...

Video

Check this cute Goggomobile after V8 swap

Aussie guys love to use V8 under the hood of cars where one never existed before. And this...

BMW

BMW 700

The story of the BMW 700 is, uncharacteristically for BMW, one of corporate dissent, division, and...

BMW

BMW 600

BMW 600 microcar was another tiny model of the company based on the 2-seater Isetta 300....

BMW

BMW Isetta 250 / 300 ‘Bubble Window’

Conscious that its mainstay motorcycle sales were slowing as rising German prosperity in the 1950s encouraged...

Crosley

Crosley HotShot / Super Sports

Cincinnati radio-and-refrigerator magnate Powel Crosley, Jr., entered the car business in 1939 with dreams of an...

Smart

Smart City Coupe

The iconic Smart city car has its genesis in watchmaking rather than the automotive world, because...

Renault

Renault Zoom

The chaotic free-for-all that is parking in Paris has often provided inspiration to French car designers....

Ligier

Ligier JS4

Guy Ligier—Formula One team owner, motorway construction tycoon, and confidante of French president François Mitterrand—was an...

Stimson

Stimson Scorcher

Britain’s licensing authorities weren’t too sure what to make of the Stimson Scorcher in 1976, hesitatingly...

Lepoix

Lepoix Ding

The French-born industrial designer Louis Lepoix was probably best known for his commercial vehicles and household...

Zagato

Zagato Zele 1000

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Italian coachbuilder Zagato was a byword for motoring excitement—a dream factory...

Fiat

Fiat 500 Nuova

Despite Fiat’s 1936 500 “Topolino” being a well-liked little car in its day, the Nuova 500...

Powerdrive

Powerdrive

In the arcane world of British microcars, David Gottlieb is a near-mythical figure. The designer of...

AIXAM

AIXAM 500 Pick-up

Aixam, the French maker of light quadricycles, added a pick-up and a minivan to its range...

AIXAM

AIXAM 400 / 500 Revolution

In 1997, AIXAM launched a new “silent AIXAM” generation of microcars, which called Revolution.  AIXAM takes...

AIXAM

AIXAM A550 Twin

In 1995, the updated model AIXAM A 550 Twin came to replace 500 I & 500...

AIXAM

AIXAM 600 i / 600 GLi

AIXAM 600 i & 600 GLi was the top model in the company’s range. It was...

AIXAM

AIXAM 400 i / GLi & 500 i / GLi

AIXAM presented another addition to its range – the 400 i / GLi model – in...

AIXAM

AIXAM 325 i / 325 GLi

In 1987, AIXAM presented a new generation of its smallest microcar which was called AIXAM 325i....

AIXAM

AIXAM 400 D

AIXAM completes the range шт 1985 with the launch of its first TQM (speed: 75 km/h...

AIXAM

AIXAM 325 D

AIXAM 325 D become the first microcar made by a newly formed company AIXAM. The production...