Stories By SmallCarsClub
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Articles
American firefighters will test a three-wheeled electric car Arcimoto Rapid Responder
28.03.2020The fire department in Eugene, Oregon, USA, will test Arcimoto’s three-wheeled electric vehicle. This is an...
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Skoda
Škoda Sagitta (typ 911)
28.03.2020The 4-seater Škoda Sagitta (typ 911) was created in 1937. The car was equipped with a...
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Fiat
Fiat 500 by Kartell
28.03.2020Creativity and innovation are the elements that inspired the one-off Fiat 500 Kartell. The company focuses...
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Fiat
Fiat 500 Mai Troppo by Bvlgari
28.03.2020Fiat 500 Mai Troppo by Bvlgari is the one-off special edition designed by jewelry and watch...
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Fiat
Fiat 500 by Giorgio Armani
27.03.2020Three Italian brands, Giorgio Armani, Bvlgari and Kartell, have prepared their special editions to celebrate launching...
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Fiat
Fiat 500
25.03.2020In 2020, Fiat presented the new generation of its 500 city car. The new three-door has...
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Articles
Fiat 500 made of 960 Lego bricks (and you can buy it online!)
24.03.2020What’s more fun than a Fiat 500 and what’s more fun than Lego? Indeed. The combination...
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Articles
A mechanic from India assembled a Volkswagen Beetle from photographs
23.03.2020Rakesh Babu, a resident of Chertal, India, assembled his own classic Volkswagen Beetle from the trash...
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Citroen
Citroen Ami
23.03.2020Do you remember the Citroën Ami One? Last year, Citroën presented this fun concept to celebrate...
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Home built
Imre Vogl home built car
07.03.2020After WWII the Soviets prohibited the East-European countries to produce passenger cars. In 1953 Hungary started...
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Micro
Microlino 2.0
07.03.2020The Swiss company Micro Mobility Systems has prepared a new version of the city car Microlino....
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GMD (Gordon Murray Design)
GMD Motiv
05.03.2020A consortium of UK companies led by Gordon Murray Design (GMD) has unveiled the Motiv “standalone...
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Home built
Vellák
04.03.2020József Vellák from Nagykanizsa learned the locksmith’s profession in 1919 in the locksmith shop of György...
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Articles
Elektro Frosch electric tricycle is the perfect camper for introverts
04.03.2020Elektro Frosch from Berlin has created an electric tricycle that turns into a micro camper for...
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Ford
Ford Cockpit
03.03.2020Ford Cockpit was created in 1981 by the American company Ford Motor Company. The car was...
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Home built
Endre Surányi dwarf cars
03.03.2020Everlasting, bohemian, versatile – Endre Surányi (1913-1996), who was a “garage master of Rákosi” and a...
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Articles
The designer came up with the world’s first Mini RWB
03.03.2020After the war, British buyers needed something really small, capable of squeezing in traffic jams and...
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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
Barn find: 1980 Commuta-Car with only 102 miles
01.03.2020If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then...
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Baojun
Baojun E300
28.02.2020The joint venture SAIC-GM-Wuling, created by General Motors and SAIC, expands its range of urban electric...
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Tabby
Tabby EVO
20.02.2020OSVehicle has unveiled its latest open source hardware platform, which includes files and blueprints for creating...
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Artega
Artega Karo-Isetta
18.02.2020The German company Artega announced the information about the Karo-Isetta electric city car made on the...
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Emis
Emis Art
12.02.2020Emis Art — the car which was created by an orthodontist. At first glance, the little...
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NIU
NIU TQi-GT
10.02.2020Chinese manufacturer Niu introduced the TQi-GT three-wheeled electric scooter at the CES 2020. Mass production of...
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Articles
Panasonic and Tropos Motors presented a compact electric fire truck at the CES 2020
27.01.2020The developers claim that the small electric fire truck has full-fledged functionality similar to a full-size...
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SEAT
Seat 600 Multipla Panoramica
27.01.2020In 1960, a hundred thousandth Seat cars were launched at the Seat factory in the free...
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Pininfarina
Pininfarina Eta Beta
27.01.2020The concept of a compact hybrid car Pininfarina Eta Beta was created in the mid 90’s...
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SEGZ
UMTET
24.01.2020Sarapul Electric Generator Plant (SEGZ), Russia, filed a patent for an environmentally friendly truck called UMTET...
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Ford
Ford Berliner
24.01.2020The concept of the city electric car Ford Berliner was created in the second half of...
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UNN
Neuromobile
05.01.2020This car parks itself, drives itself and completely obeys the wishes of the owner. The neuromobile...
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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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Articles
Spy photos of the new generation Fiat 500e
29.12.2019The new Fiat 500e electric car is only in general terms similar to its predecessor. There...
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Home built
Home built roadster from Siberia
22.12.2019This tiny home-made car was made in Siberia. It was created in 1971. According to the...
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Articles
Rare 1962 Austin Mini Beach Car sold in the USA for crazy $230,000
21.12.2019The amazing thing: Mini without doors costs more than modern premium cars and other supercars! Apparently...
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XEV
XEV YoYo
14.12.2019Chinese startup XEV launched a fundraiser on the Kickstarter.com to build the YoYo electric microcar. The...
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Valeo
Valeo 48V Electric Truck
13.12.2019Valeo, a French automotive component manufacturer, and Gumma University of Japan have developed a compact electric...
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Video
Fiat Cinquecento with Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle engine on a racing track
13.12.2019Daniel Esposito modified its Fiat Cinquecento to compete in slalom racing. The 600 kg race car...
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BMA
BMA Amica
11.12.2019One of the earliest Italian microcars, the BMA Arnica was first seen in 1971. Produced in...
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Binzhou Pride
Binzhou Pride 3-wheeler
09.12.2019Binzhou is a city in the Chinese province of Shandong, where a company called Binzhou Pride...
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Video
Watch a Gymkhana parody with a Reliant Robin 3-wheeler
09.12.2019Reliant Robin is known for his rollover passion. I must say thanks to the ex-host of...
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BCB
BCB Trirrodio «Bichibi»
09.12.2019ichibi was the phonetic extraction of BCB, the initials of this car’s creators: Bulto then working...
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BET
BET 500
08.12.2019In 1973, BET introduced its second passenger three-wheeler called the ‘BET 500’. It had slightly more...
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BET
BET 125
08.12.2019BET was a mercifully pithy acronym of Biothechnia Ellinikon Trikyklon (literally Greek Three-Wheeler Manufacturer). It was...
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LOCI
LOCI Berlin
05.12.2019A year ago, the German company BigRep showed a prototype of an electric motorcycle assembled from...
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Berkeley
Berkeley Bandini
05.12.2019A Berkeley enthusiast called Andy Argyle started offering replacement chassis, panels and bodyshells for Berkeley cars...
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Chasqui
Chasqui
04.12.2019Chasqui was a little known microcar from Argentina, which was made sometime from 1955 to 1960....
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Belcar
Belcar
03.12.2019This was a licence-built version of the Brutsch 200 Spatz. It swapped the original 191cc Sachs...
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Basson's
Bassons’s Star
03.12.2019Basson’s Industries of the Bronx, New York was behind this car, which was styled by Gil...
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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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Articles
Production of the first Russian Zetta EV will begin in early 2020
30.11.2019At the beginning of next year, mass production of the first Russian electric car Zetta can...
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Barrett
Barrett Model 60 Midget
30.11.2019Years before MG grabbed the name, Barrett produced its own Midget. A politically incorrect name by...
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Barrett
Barrett Model 58 Minor
30.11.2019Bristol-based W&F Barrett Ltd started making invalid tricycles in around 1948 with tiller-steered vehicles powered by...
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B&Z
B&Z Electra King
30.11.2019One of the most successful and long-lived electric cars ever made was the Electra King made...
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Pajtás
Pajtás
29.11.2019This plastic-doomed for all-around visibility, a three-wheeled bubble car Pajtás was built by Pál Fodor, an...
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Gitta
Gitta
29.11.2019In 1958, István Karika, a small craftsman from Budapest, made a three-wheeled miniature car. It was...
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Bamby
Bamby
26.11.2019Hull-based Alan Evans was a microcar enthusiast who loved his Peel P50 so much that he...
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Bajaj
Bajaj PTV
26.11.2019Two decades before Tata launched its Nano people’s car, Bajaj Auto had very much the same...
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Autoette
Autoette CruiseAbout
23.11.2019The Autoette Electric Car Co of Long Beach, California was founded by Royce Seevers in 1947....
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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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Automite
Automite
20.11.2019The Automite (by Masterworks of Long Green, Maryland) was a fully-enclosed single-seater microcar with uncompromisingly flat body...
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Dacia
Dacia 500 Lăstun
17.11.2019A four-seat 3-door Dacia 500 Lăstun was created in the second half of the 80s. Romanian...
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Home built
Losenok («Лосёнок»)
15.11.2019This home-made car can be called one of the most original ever built on the components...
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Takayama
Takayama Micro Freedom
13.11.2019At the 2017 Tokyo Motor Show, Takayama Cars introduced the “kitchen on wheels” called the Micro...
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Suzuki
Suzuki Every Combi
13.11.2019Suzuki Every Combi concept is based on the Every key car with a length of 3395...
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Suzuki
Suzuki Waku SPO
10.11.2019Suzuki has built an unusual concept car Waku SPO, which has a transformable body. At the...
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Outspan Orange
Mini Outspan Orange
08.11.2019This is the most stubborn Mini in the history. The project was called Outspan Orange. I...
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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...