Stories By SmallCarsClub
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Suzuki
Suzuki Hustler Concept ‘2020
06.11.2019Suzuki has announced the Hustler key car of the second generation at the Tokyo Motor Show....
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Moskvich
Moskvich-444
04.11.2019The name “Moskvich-444” probably will not say anything to you. But when you look at the...
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Home built
Six-wheeled home-made microcar from the USSR
03.11.2019This six-wheeled home-made microcar was made in the USSR in the late 70s. The engine, gearbox...
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Daihatsu
Daihatsu Tsumu Tsumu
03.11.2019The miniature truck Daihatsu Tsumu Tsumu features a removable body and a quadrocopter platform. The highlight...
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Daihatsu
Daihatsu Ico Ico
03.11.2019Daihatsu Ico Ico was created for the Japanese who want to be able to ride independently,...
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Daihatsu
Daihatsu Waku Waku Concept
02.11.2019Japanese car shows regularly become the arena to showcase the most unexpected and extravagant concepts. Daihatsu...
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ZAZ
Yalta 1000
02.11.2019In the early 70’s, Soviet built Zaporozhets microcars were exported to more than 20 countries, including...
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Automirage
Automirage S3R
21.10.2019In 1982, a larger body with side-by-side seats Automirage’s new S3R came to replace the Automirage...
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Toyota
Toyota Ultra-Compact BEV Concept Model for Business
21.10.2019Microcar Toyota Ultra-compact BEV Concept Model for Business is a mobile office for one person who...
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Toyota
Toyota Ultra-Compact BEV
21.10.2019At the Tokyo Motor Show 2019, Toyota presents this new all-electric city car. The Japanese describe...
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Automirage
Automirage 3
20.10.2019Automirage was one of Italy’s biggest beach buggy manufacturers in the 1970s, but it soon abandoned...
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Home built
Autocykl
19.10.2019The Autocykl was the brainchild of watchmaker Rostislav Dyna from Czech. It was a narrow (800...
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ATS Design
ATS Design Azuma
19.10.2019French company ATS Design built this smartly styled two-seater trike, which was electric-powered and cleverly used...
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Delta
Delta Dimitriadi
19.10.2019The firm “Bioplastic S.A.”, founded by Georgios Dimitriadi, based in the Moscháton neighborhood of Athens, Attica...
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Attica
Attica 200
19.10.2019A company called Bioplastic SA. in Piraeus, run by Georgios Dimitriadis, obtained a license to build...
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ASMC
ASMC Electrike
18.10.2019ASMC (Applied Systems Manufacturing Corp) was founded in 1986 in Philippines and made its first car,...
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Asaka
Asaka Puchi
18.10.2019This was one of many very small plastic-bodied moped-powered three-wheelers offered in Japan in the 1980s....
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Arola
Arola SP
18.10.2019In 1978, the model range of Arola 3-wheelers was increased by the new model SP, which...
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Arola
Arola Type 10 / 11 / 12
18.10.2019One of the most successful of all French microcars was the Arola. First presented in 1976,...
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Italdesign
Italdesign WheeM-i
18.10.2019Mobile operator Etisalat from the UAE and Italian design studio Italdesign have developed the first ride...
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Articles
How people fled from East Berlin using the BMW Isetta
18.10.2019Isetta – one of the smallest and most bizarre model made by BMW. However, the small...
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Armec
Armec City Mobil
18.10.2019This ‘cabin scooter’ prototype from a Swiss sidecar maker was only 900 mm wide and 2250...
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Argson
Argson
17.10.2019Argson Engineering was founded in 1919. It was named from Argus of Baden, Germany’s small bus...
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Ammar
Ammar K-SL
17.10.2019The Ammar Motor Company was a Karachi-based manufacturer of three-wheelers has been producing tricycles since 1990....
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AMES
AMES Trio
17.10.2019AMES was based in Pegognaga, in Mantua, Italy, whose Trio was a very small microcar that...
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Fuel Vapor Technologies
Fuel Vapor Technologies Alé
17.10.2019Significant publicity was gained by the unique Ale, which pioneered the concept of ‘fuel vapour’ power,...
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Aircraft Products
Airscoot
17.10.2019Certainly one of the smallest cars ever built, the ingenious Airscoot was designed in 1947 to...
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AeroVisions
AeroVisions California Commuter
17.10.2019Having been involved with daredevil Evel Knievel’s motorbike stunts, partners Doug Malewicki, Richard Long and Gary...
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ATR
Aero Trike Roadster
17.10.2019The Aero Trike Roadster (or ATR) was a kit designed by Maurice Bourne of Marquez, Texas,...
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Autocarene
Aerocarene 700
16.10.2019Aerocarene 700, the aircraft-inspired machine, featured highly unusual light alloy bodywork with very unconventional entry for...
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Addis
Addis P3
16.10.2019A Nigerian firm called Addis made this strange 3-wheel microcar whose boxy four-door body was made...
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Home built
Mother Earth News’s 3VG
16.10.2019Mother Earth News magazine published articles on a series of prototypes that it built featuring tilting...
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3-E Vehicles
XEP-100
16.10.20193-E Minicar followed this up with a more aerodynamic electric model called the XEP-100. The microcar...
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3-E Vehicles
3-E Minicar
16.10.20193-E Vehicles of San Diego, California offered a three-wheeler called the Minicar in kit form. An...
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Home built
Home built microcar by Gerber László
15.10.2019In 1961, Gerber László of Kispest, head of the Red Star Tractor Factory, designed and built...
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Porsche
Porsche Type 534
13.10.2019In the early 1950s, the German automobile concern Volkswagenwerk GmbH decided to expand the range of...
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Video
Watch racing electric Smarts EQ crash into each other
13.10.2019I didn’t know about the Smart EQ electric car racing series until yesterday. And if you...
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Master
Master-1600 (Магистр-1600)
11.10.2019In 1993-1994, a Russian company called Master (Russian, Магистр) built a compact SUV, called Master-1600 (Russian,...
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Home built
Fesztival by Kálmán Szabadi
09.10.2019Kálmán Szabadi, who died at the age of 81 in the winter of 2010, was best...
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Abarth
Abarth 695 70°Anniversario
05.10.2019Abarth celebrates its 70s anniversary with the appropriate scope preparing various interesting models. At the Abarth...
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Home built
Azov (Азов)
03.10.2019For 25 years, Viktor Golovan, a resident of Berdyansk, Ukraine, has been using a home built...
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Home built
Imre Dongó’s city car
24.09.2019Imre Dongó, teacher of Bercsényi Miklós Vocational Secondary School and Grammar School in Győr, was a...
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Articles
Electric Brabus Ultimate E is the slowest Brabus in the history
22.09.2019Some time ago Daimler AG announced that Smart refused to release models with an internal combustion...
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Articles
American parked Smart into the kitchen to keep from huricane ‘Dorian’
15.09.2019Florida residents turned the kitchen in the house into a garage to protect their Smart from...
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Citroen
Citroën Bijou
08.09.2019A 4-seater coupe Citroen Bijou was created in the late 50s by British designer Peter Kirwan-Taylor...
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Smart
2020 Smart EQ ForTwo & EQ ForFour
07.09.2019Smart will present the updated ForTwo and ForFour. The restyled Smart EQ Fortwo and EQ Forfour...
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Video
Basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal decides to ride one of the smallest cars in the world
31.08.2019NBA player Shaquille O’Neal which is 85 inches (2.16 m) tall and weights 150 kilograms, tried...
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Home built
István Domoszlai 3-wheeler
29.08.2019Currently, this three-wheeled small car built in Debrecen by István Domoszlai is located in Budapest. The...
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Home built
Homemade microcar from Ukraine
29.08.2019This cute homemade microcar was made by a resident of Ukraine. He drives it around the...
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Home built
Homemade microcar by Vasily Terteki
27.08.2019It seems that there is no impossible for the Ukrainians on their way to a better...
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HICOX
HICOX Mathias / Magyar Álom
25.08.2019Mátyás Borlóy’s vehicle development company tried several promising initiatives around the change of regime, but their...
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Sigma
Sigma 650
21.08.2019Sigma 650 was a prototype of a city car created by József Csathó in the 80s....
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Articles
Unusual hybrid of motorcycle and car was stopped by the UK police
20.08.2019This Sunday, August 18, the police stopped a strange vehicle on the road. “I see this...
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Hodgep
Hodgep Puli
20.08.2019The story of the Puli microcar from Hungary is novel and spiced with typical elements of...
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Articles
German tuner Mansory said goodbye to gasoline Smarts its own way
18.08.2019Tuning company Mansory is expanding its product portfolio with a refining program for the smallest Mercedes-Benz...
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EAV
EAVan
18.08.2019Electric Assisted Vehicles Limited (EAV) introduced EAVan at the Said Oxford Business School Electric Vehicle Development...
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Home built
Valga-Kvartet (Валга-Квартет)
16.08.2019When you start building a car, each amateur designer should firstly clearly imagine what qualities the...
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Balaton
Balaton
16.08.2019After Schadek János had lost interest in his “child”, the Úttörő, the prototype was sent to...
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Úttörő
Úttörő
09.08.2019In 1953, the Ministry of Metallurgy and Mechanical Engineering planned to manufacture a vehicle with a...
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Pente
Pente 600
08.08.2019János Pentelényi, learning from the mistakes of the Pente 500, made the larger and more powerful...
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Pente
Pente 500
08.08.2019At the end of World War II, approx. in 1944 János Pentelényi started designing a small...
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Ikarus
Ikarus Tecoplan Leo
07.08.2019Ikarus. This famous automobile brand is known for its buses that most of us have had...
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Articles
Estonian electric car Nobe 100 will park on the wall
06.08.2019The retro-futuristic electric tricycle Nobe 100 being created in Estonia will not only look cool but...
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Ari
Ari 458
31.07.2019The German manufacturer Ari Motors based in Borna near Leipzig presented the new Ari 458 –...
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AWS
AWS Shopper
31.07.2019The 2-seat AWS Shopper was created in 1970 by the German entrepreneur Walter Schätzle, a former...
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Renault
Renault e-Plein Air
24.07.2019Renault celebrated the 10th anniversary of the 4L International meeting of Renault 4 owners with a...
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Saleen
Saleen Maimai
23.07.2019This weekend in China Saleen presented a compact electric microcar Maimai. Back in 2003, Saleen acquired...
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Ardex
Ardex Type T / Type E
18.07.2019In 1953, Ardex showed a new Type T model. The 2-3 seater cyclecar with a simple...
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Ardex
Ardex 3-wheeler
17.07.2019In the difficult post-war period, Ardex experimented with various bodies and chassis designs. Along with 4-wheeled...
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Fiat
Fiat 500 Dolcevita
15.07.2019A model called the Fiat 500 was presented in the 1930s and changed several generations. But...
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Honda
Honda Hondina Zagato
05.07.2019The Honda Hondina sports car was created in 1970 by the Italian studio Zagato, commissioned by...
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Articles
The designer developed the concept of an urban electric vehicle with a variable wheelbase for 2035
30.06.2019While SUVs and crossovers continue to gain popularity around the world, automotive designers are starting to...
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Articles
Not So Many Racing Cars Can Be Transported Like This
28.06.2019Not so many racing cars can be transported on the back of an UTE. That’s why...
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Video
300 hp Bond Bug with Hayabusa motorcycle engine running a 11.22 sec quarter-mile
28.06.2019Probably you have already seen this Bond Bug, powered by a Hayabusa superbike engine. Once on...
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Fiat
Fiat 500 Jolly Icon-e by Garage Italia
16.06.2019The cute little car based on the original Fiat 500 was unveiled by the Garage Italia....
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Video
The most incredible and crazy tuning of Mini with a massive V8
09.06.2019Holley LS Fest West dedicated to the Chevrolet LS V8 engines was held in Las Vegas....
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Articles
Not only cars: Fairmont M18/19 Speeder
08.06.2019Not only cars can be small, but also trains. This Fairmont M18/19 Master-series Speeder was designed...
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Renault
Renault EZ-Pod
02.06.2019Renault presented the new EZ-Pod robotic autonomous electric platform which is built on the Twizy chassis...
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Trabant
Trabant 601 WE II
30.05.2019Trabant 601 WE II was created in the early 80s as the replacement to Trabant 601...
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Articles
One-of-15 Subaru 360 Yacht is for sale in Newark
24.05.2019This is the 1970 Subaru 360 Yacht – one of only 15 Jolly-style open examples made....
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Bolt
Bolt Nano
17.05.2019Usain Bolt, the Olympic champion and the fastest man on the planet, decided to plunge into...
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Articles
Smart ForTwo ‘21’ Final Collector’s Edition says goodbye to ICE-powered Smarts
16.05.20192020 is getting closer and that means one thing for Smart: in its entire range no...
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Articles
Vilner’s Bulgarian tuning atelier made the coolest Trabant 1.1
13.05.2019Vilner’s Bulgarian atelier has built a restomod of the main car of the GDR – Trabant...
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Singulato
Singulato iC3 Concept
02.05.2019Chinese start-up Singulato presented a subcompact iC3 electric car in Shanghai, whose design is based on...
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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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Articles
Smart EQ will be refreshed for the last time in 2019
14.04.2019The Germans nearly closed the unprofitable Smart brand. The helping hand came in the form of...
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Emm! Solutions
ILO1
10.04.2019The ILO 1 is a concept of a single place electric vehicle. Equipped with sensors and...
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Articles
The new brand NeuWai presented 12 (!) cars at the 2019 Seoul Motor Show
02.04.2019Songuo Motors, which presented its products under the NeuWai brand, became an unexpected debutant of the...
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Volkswagen
Volkswagen EA266
31.03.2019In the 1960s, Volkswagen began creating a replacement for its popular Volkswagen Käfer model, which has been...
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Articles
Geely Group will buy 50 percent of Smart
27.03.2019Daimler will sell half of Smart’s shares to Geely, a Chinese company that owns Geely Auto,...
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AnyCar
AnyCar III
26.03.2019Mixing parts of different cars in one project has always been the basis for creating hot...
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Arcimoto
Arcimoto Deliverator
25.03.2019In 2019, Arcimoto presented its first commercial use model. This is an electric delivery 3-wheeler which...
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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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Home built
Minsk (“Минск”)
19.03.2019Soviet times were free for inquisitive minds. This interesting microcar was made by Alexander Dlotovsky, the president...
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Ardex
Ardex 2+2
17.03.2019In the begins of 50s Ardex restarted producing of microcars. This 2+2 cabriolet was equipped with a...
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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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Ardex
Ardex Electric Cyclecars
15.03.2019The war years were characterised by a desperate shortage of raw materials for civilian industry and...
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Bugatti
Bugatti Baby II
14.03.2019Those who have a passion will certainly want to share it with their loved ones. This...
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Video
Someone shortened Volkswagen Beetle and it looks like a cartoon car
12.03.2019This dwarf Volkswagen Beetle lives in Qatar, and it is absolutely real, despite its cartoon look. It was...