Stories By SmallCarsClub
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Home built
Tianjin-made jeep
16.03.2023In 1956, a very small jeep was made in Tianjin, China. It does not seem to...
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Benteng
Benteng
16.03.2023Benteng electric convertible was made in China in 1958. It is likely that the only copy...
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Shanghai
Shanghai SK720
15.03.2023A batch of 30 microcars Shanghai SK720 was produced in 1979-1980. The engine was the Changjiang...
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Jinlu
Jinlu SH740
15.03.2023In 1979, a front engine Jinlu SH740 with an air-cooled engine was introduced. Jinlu means Golden...
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Haiyan
Haiyan SW710
14.03.2023In 1966, Shanghai Mini-Auto Works introduced its second mini-car, the four-seater Haiyan SW710. The engine 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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Feiyue
Feiyue
14.03.2023The Feiyue was produced by the Shanghai Mini-Auto Works from August 1958. Feiyue, which means “flying...
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Haiyan
Haiyan CK730
14.03.2023Introduced at the National Exhibition of Industry and Communication in Beijing in 1959, this open-top mini-car...
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Huke
Huke 580
14.03.2023The one-eyed, four-seater Huke 580 was manufactured in October 1958 by the Shanghai Bus Repair &...
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Haiyan
Haiyan 730
14.03.2023In August 1958, Shanghai Bus Repair Works produced the Haiyan 730, a closed mini-coupe with two...
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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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Western Washington University
Viking I
14.03.2023The Western Washington University’s Vehicle Research Institute conceptualized and produced the groundbreaking Viking I, an automobile...
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Baldi
Baldi El Sabre
20.02.2023Baldi El Sabre was another buggy-styled microcar based on the Fiat 850. This one was built...
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Baldi
Baldi Riky
19.02.20231972 Baldi Riky was a Fiat 850 Special with an original open buggy body. Similar to...
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Baldi
Baldi Betty
19.02.2023Baldi Betty was another buggy version of the Fiat 500 with an original open-top body. It...
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Baldi
Fiat 500 Tilly by Baldy
18.02.2023Baldi GAMC was a coachbuilder based in the Sanremo region of Italy. One of Baldi’s early...
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Elaris
Elaris Pio
17.02.2023The Elaris Pio 2-seater electric city car is a Chinese alternative to the Smart from Jiangsu...
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Force / Bajaj Tempo
Force / Bajaj Tempo MiniDor
17.02.2023The Indian company Bajaj Tempo Ltd began importing three-wheelers from Germany in the late 1950s. With...
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Articles
The Chinese were baned to clone the classic Mini
08.02.2023BMW did not allow the Chinese to produce clones of the classic Mini car. Back in...
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BAG
Spatz / BAG-Spatz
31.01.2023The history of Spatz is so ephemeral that to get to it you have to do...
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Home built
Badia-Ballarin
31.01.2023Despite the little information that exists about this curious microcar, and the fact that in the...
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Home built
Vicente Badia Tricycle
19.01.2023Vicente Badia, a Barcelona motorcycle racer who among other things, at the end of the 40s...
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France-Jet
France-Jet 1100 cc Prototype
19.01.2023In 1960, France-Jet built a last special version for the American market. It got long front...
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France-Jet
France-Jet V2N
19.01.2023With the aim of entering the American market, the subsidiary France-Jet Motor Ltd. created for this...
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France-Jet
Jet V2N
19.01.2023In 1959, Union Industrielle (formerly named Air Tourist) made a turn and announced the new Brutsch...
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France-Jet
Jet 175 Prototype
18.01.2023Air Tourist and the Avolette brand give way to Union Industrielle and the Jet and France-Jet...
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Avolette
Avolette 125 / 150 Lambretta engine
18.01.2023At the end of 1957, a redesign of the “Avolette” with new shapes and better mechanics,...
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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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Automirage
Automirage S4R
17.01.2023Automirage S4R was similar to S3R, but has four wheels. It was available with two engines:...
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Auto Sandal
Auto Sandal FN-L
17.01.2023In 1954, a full model change was planned, and a model with a front engine and...
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Auto Sandal
Auto Sandal FN
17.01.2023During 1953, an FN model was launched. The second model of Auto Sandal brand (オートサンダル) was...
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Auto Sandal
Auto Sandal FS
17.01.2023After World War II, and in the midst of the postwar period, the Japanese government had...
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Auto Sandal
Nakano Yoshimishiro prototype
17.01.2023In 1947, Nakano Yoshimishiro founded the “Nakano Automobile Kogyo Company Limited” in the Japanese city of...
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Atlas
Atlas Babycar
16.01.2023The Atlas was a 4-wheeled microcar produced by the Societe Industrielle de Livry (SIL). The prototype,...
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Arzens
Arzens Le Carrossee
16.01.2023The famous French designer of railway locomotives Paul Arzens (1903-1990) in addition to his main work,...
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Arzens
Arzens L’Oeuf Electrique
16.01.2023Paul Arzens (1903-1990) was a famous French industrial designer, highly recognized for his railway designs. Arzens,...
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Arola
Arola Minoto
15.01.2023Appeared in 1980, the Arola Minoto used the same name and body shape as an earlier...
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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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Arola
Arola Compacity
15.01.2023The pickup Arola Compacity was to type 14, what the SP was to type 12. It...
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Arola
Arola Type 14 / 15 / 20
15.01.2023When Arola presented its first range of quadricycles in 1979, they bore close resemblance with the...
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Home built
Arnau
14.01.2023During the Spanish Civil War, Joan Arnau Vicens, a Catalan from the province of Girona, worked...
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Amphicat
Amphicat
14.01.2023At the 1971 Barcelona Auto Show, the “Gato Montes”, a 6-wheel drive ATV designed by Artes...
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Home built
A.M.P. 3-wheeler
14.01.2023In 1957, in Pamplona, Antonio Muñoz Perera (A.M.P.), built a unique prototype of a touring tricycle...
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Lada
Lada 1801 Pony
14.01.2023The 70s of the 20th century was a time of fun buggy cars that were very...
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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 Transville
11.01.2023Victor Bouffort developed automobiles as early as 1945, starting with a fairly well-known aerodynamically streamlined tricycle...
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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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Bouffort
Bouffort City-Car / Peardrop
10.01.2023Having previously built the JB, aeronautical engineer Victor Bouffort went on to create a whole series...
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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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Allelectric
Allelectric
09.01.2023The West Penn Power Company, a subsidiary of the Allegheny Power System, Inc., was an electric...
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Alamagny
Alamagny Rhomboid
09.01.2023In 1947, the French engineer, Marcel Alamagny (engineer for Renault and Gordini), presented a curious prototype...
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Borgman
Borgman Dwerg
08.01.2023Vaguely reminiscent of a Bond Minicar to look at, the Borgman Dwerg (dwarf) was made by...
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Bond
Bond Bug Sprint Prototype
08.01.2023In 1995, Reliant’s new owner, Avonex, planned to relaunch the Bond Bug in updated form. It...
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Jurka
Jurka 2nd prototype
08.01.2023The Jurka 2nd prototype was the fifth and last car built by Spain-based company AISA, which...
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Jurka
Jurka prototype with Fermín Antonio Capella Hernán body
06.01.2023Spain-based AISA company met some problems: the name was already registered by by a water company...
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AISA
AISA wooden prototype
05.01.2023At the beginning of the 50s, Martí Martí, in addition to running his carpentry shop, decided...
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Huazi Auto
Huazi Omega
04.01.2023The young Chinese company Huazi Auto introduced a compact electric car Omega with odd design. As...
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Mullen
Mullen I-Go
03.01.2023American startup Mullen Automotive, which recently acquired a controlling stake in Bollinger Motors and the former...
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Articles
Arcimoto, Faction and GoCar Tours Develop Autonomous Electric Vehicles for Touring
02.01.2023Arcimoto, an electric vehicle manufacturer, has partnered with Faction Technology and GoCar Tours to develop up...
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Onomotion
Onomotion ONO
02.01.2023ONOMOTION is a Berlin based company. Its latest innovation, called the ONO, is a delivery-focused lightweight...
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Articles
A New Kei-car From Russia is in Development
02.01.2023These are the slides from the factory presentation of Avtotor. They shed light on how the...
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Opel
Opel Rocks E-Xtreme Concept
02.01.2023Opel has summed up the results of the Rocks-e Design Hack design hackathon and has chosen...
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Articles
MIH Project X is a Groundbreaking Concept for Affordable Electric Vehicles
31.12.2022Foxconn is pursuing an unusual development strategy. Its main goal is to enable the development and...
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Tazzari
Tazzari Minimax Cubo
31.12.2022Italian company Tazzari EV Zero Emission Mobility has created what they believe is the perfect electric...
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Articles
Citroen to produce additional 1000 copies of My Ami Buggy
27.12.2022In 2021, the Citroen introduced a prototype of the “off-road” electric car My Ami. The fans...
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Sebring-Vanguard
Vanguard Sport Coupe
23.12.2022In the early 1970s, American businessman Robert Beaumont, who owned a Chrysler dealership in upstate New...
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Commuter Vehicles
Commuter Vehicles Postal Comuta-Van
23.12.2022Another Comuta-Car variant was called the Postal Comuta-Van. All of these vehicles were right-hand drive and...
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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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Kilow
Kilow La Bagnole
10.12.2022One of the most curious premieres of the Paris Motor Show 2022 was the light electric...
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Mobilize
Mobilize Bento
06.12.2022Mobilze Bento is a cargo version of Mobilize Duo. This urban electric vans will be available...
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Mobilize
Mobilize Duo
04.12.2022The young Mobilize brand, owned by the French Renault Group, is preparing the new Duo EV...
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Renault
Renault Zoom
22.10.2022The Renault Zoom squeezed into the smallest gap, carried two people, ran on electricity and the...
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Dandera Ventures
Dandera Ventures OTUA
13.10.2022The Dandera Ventures OTUA electric commercial van made its debut on the Indian market. This car...
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Mobilize
Mobilize Solo Concept
10.10.2022Renault has unveiled the latest development under its Mobilize sub-brand, focused on the production of electric...
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Geometry
Geometry M2
08.10.2022Chinese company Geely has presented a tiny electric car just over three meters long called the...
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Wuling
Wuling G050
07.10.2022Wuling New Energy and Japan ASF Co., Ltd. signed a contract for serial production of G050,...
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ElectricBrands
ElectricBrands XBus S
02.10.2022After the premiere of the XBus minibus last year and three pre-series models presented so far,...
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Articles
A very rare Fiat 500 Jolly for sale
01.10.2022The British dealer of classic and exotic cars put up for sale an unusual modification of...
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Articles
The MINI Museum Has a Batman-style Ice Cream Van
01.10.2022MINI told us about a new exhibit at the factory museum. It’s an ice cream van:...
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Trabant
Trabant P603
30.09.2022The designers in Zwickau and the GDR government initially agreed that the Trabant 601 would be...
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Fiat
Fiat 500 Spiaggina
28.09.2022The Fiat 500 Spiaggina is not only one of the most significant works of Carrozzeria Boano...
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Peel
Peel P50 E.50 / G.50
23.09.2022The best Top Gear episode of all time is the one with the Peel P50. That...
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Commuter Vehicles
Commuter Vehicles Comuta-Van
18.09.2022In 1979, the Sebring-Vanguard CitiVan, a limited production extended-wheelbase version of the CitiCar, became the Comuta-Van....
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Sebring-Vanguard
Sebring-Vanguard CitiVan
17.09.2022The CitiVan, was a limited production extended-wheelbase version of the CitiCar. Produced and sold from 1977...
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Commuter Vehicles
Commuter Vehicles Comuta-Car
17.09.2022After production of CitiCar by Sebring-Vanguard, Inc. ended, Commuter Vehicles, Inc. saw the potential in the...
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Video
The slowest electric cars meet in drag racing
15.09.2022The British car magazine What Car?, known for its analytical materials and consumer test drives, does...
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Articles
Chinese Wuling Mini EV became a six-wheeled monster with gullwing-doors
14.09.2022Wuling Hongguang Mini EV is the most popular electric car in China, even ahead of Tesla,...
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Sebring-Vanguard
Sebring-Vanguard CitiCar
12.09.2022In the early 1970s, Robert Beaumont, founder and owner of the Sebring-Vanguard company in Florida, was...
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Evetta
Evetta Cargo
04.09.20221st version ElectricBrands has prepared a whole range of different variants of the Evetta Prima electric...
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Evetta
Evetta Openair
04.09.2022In addition to the base version Evetta Prima, the open-top version Evetta Openair was presented. Although...
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Evetta
Evetta Prima
04.09.2022Evetta Prima is the new name of Artega Karo — the “new Isetta” which is now...
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Articles
Citroen unveiled the New Top-of-the-line version My Ami Tonic
03.09.2022The Citroen Ami in the new top version My Ami Tonic will start in Spain in...
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Video
Look at the Smart Fortwo, which has been turned into a mobile home
25.08.2022Often crossovers and SUVs are turned into motor homes. However, for owners of tiny electric cars,...
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Articles
The project of the Russian electric car Zetta has been closed
23.08.2022The Russian project Zetta, which was developing a compact affordable electric car, is closed. Only five...
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Articles
Inexpensive electric cars e.Go Mobile will be produced in Northern Macedonia
19.08.2022For the first time in the history there will be a car factory in Northern Macedonia....
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Articles
Mini Recharged Lakwena Art Car Looks Bright
16.08.2022In early 2022, MINI announced the creation of Mini Recharged – a modification of the classic...
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Elaris
Elaris Finn
02.08.2022The German supermarket chain Lidl intends to develop a new market segment for itself. It will...
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Covin
Covin i-EA 01 / i-EA 02
22.07.2022Covin Motors officially unveiled two compact models, the three-door Covin i-EA 01 and the five-door i-EA...
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Paraks
Paraks Cheetah YOOZ
19.07.2022For the first time, there were talks about the production of electric cars in Iran six...
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DR Automobiles
DR Automobiles Sportequipe 1
17.07.2022The Italian company DR Automobiles has unveiled an urban compact electric car called Sportequipe 1. The...