ACM City eTaxi
The ACM City eTaxi is a lightweight electric urban vehicle developed by the German company Adaptive City...
German Small Cars and Bubble Cars: A–Z List
After the war Germany became the home of the bubble car. This page lists small German cars, microcars and three-wheelers, from the Messerschmitt era to modern city cars.
Browse the list alphabetically and open a model page for photos, history and specifications. To explore by maker instead, use the catalog A–Z.
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Albrecht
The Friedrich Albrecht Fahrzeugfabrik was a German manufacturer of wheelchairs and cars for the...
Alfi Tri-cycle DKW Personnenwagen
The Berlin engineer Alexander (called Alex) Fischer brought his vehicles onto the market with interruptions...
Aper City Compact 3/5
Aper City Compact 3/5 project was presented at the 1985 Essen Motor Show in West Germany. For city shopping...
Ari 252 / 452 / 802
The ARI 252, 452 and 802 are three versions of the same two-seat electric microcar sold by ARI Motors, a...
Artega Karo-Isetta
The German company Artega announced the information about the Karo-Isetta electric city car made on the...
AWZ P70
AWZ P70, the successor to the IFA F8, was manufactured by Audi factory (internal designation F8 K). It...
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BMW 331/531
Many regret that the shapely BMW 331 never passed the prototype stage. Conceived by chief engineer Alfred...
BMW 600
BMW 600 microcar was another tiny model of the company based on the 2-seater Isetta 300. BMW’s financial...
BMW 700
The story of the BMW 700 is, uncharacteristically for BMW, one of corporate dissent, division, and intrigue....
BMW Clever
The 2006 BMW Clever Research Vehicle (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport) was an ambitious...
BMW E1 (Z11)
BMW E1 (Z11) is a prototype of an electric vehicle from BMW. Once BMW’s sales and its performance image had...
BMW E1 (Z15)
The second-generation BMW E1 prototype, internally designated Z15, was unveiled on September 9, 1993, at the...
BMW Isetta 250 / 300 ‘Bubble Window’
Conscious that its mainstay motorcycle sales were slowing as rising German prosperity in the 1950s encouraged...
BMW Simple
BMW’s final three-wheeled prototype, the Simple, was an acronym of Sustainable and Innovative Mobility...
BMW Z13
With this low-slung city commuter BMW Z13, the first signs of BMW’s vision of future megacity vehicles...
BMW Z21 ‘Just 4/2’
Something of a historical and engineering curiosity, the BMW Z21 ‘Just 4/2’ was a 1995 study by...
Brütsch V2
The Brütsch V2 roadster was created in the mid 50s by the German company Egon Brütsch Fahrzeugbau from...
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Dornier Delta
In the 1950s, the German aircraft designer and founder of the aircraft manufacturer Dornier GmbH decided to...
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e.GO Life
e.GO is the German company that launched its first electric car aimed specifically at urban mobility. The...
Electric Brands eBussy
Electric Brands is a German company that plans to start producing the unusual eBussy EV no later than next...
Electric Brands Xbus Camper Concept
The German company Electric Brands has come up with a new version of the Xbus super compact EV van. It was...
ElectricBrands XBus S
After the premiere of the XBus minibus last year and three pre-series models presented so far, a small...
Evetta Cargo
1st version ElectricBrands has prepared a whole range of different variants of the Evetta Prima electric car,...
Evetta Openair
In addition to the base version Evetta Prima, the open-top version Evetta Openair was presented. Although the...
Evetta Prima
Evetta Prima is the new name of Artega Karo — the “new Isetta” which is now belongs to...
EVUM aCAR
Evum Motors announced the imminent start of sales of its first electric truck called the ‘aCar’....
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Ford Berliner
The concept of the city electric car Ford Berliner was created in the second half of the 60s by designers of...
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Geparda
This unusual hatchback is designed for those who want to start driving as soon as possible. It’s called...
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Hoffmann Auto-Kabine
Auto-Kabine was created by the German company Hoffmann-Werke Lintorf. The company was engaged in the...
Hotzenblitz
Hotzenblitz was a compact German electric city car developed by Hotzenblitz-Mobile GmbH & Co. KG in Ibach...
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Lepoix Ding
The French-born industrial designer Louis Lepoix was probably best known for his commercial vehicles and...
LOCI Berlin
A year ago, the German company BigRep showed a prototype of an electric motorcycle assembled from parts...
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MCC Smart Eco-Speedster
The story of Smart began with bold ideas rather than cautious compromises. In 1990, Swiss watchmaker SMH —...
MCC Smart Eco-Sprinter
Unveiled alongside the Eco-Speedster in March 1993, the Eco-Sprinter represented the electric vision of...
Mercedes Garia Golf Cart
Mercedes Garia Golf Cart was created jointly with the Danish design company Garia. The prototype of the golf...
Mercedes-Benz F 300 Life-Jet
Carmakers have long shunned the idea of offering three-wheeled cars to their customers. Motorcycle...
Mercedes-Benz NAFA
The Mercedes-Benz NAFA was a forward-thinking 1982 concept car designed as a compact, highly maneuverable...
Mercedes-Benz Vision A 93 by I.DE.A
Mercedes-Benz Vision A 93 by I.DE.A was a 1993 compact concept that previewed the future A‑Class and...
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NSU P6 / P10 “Uruguay”
When considering the global automotive market, Uruguay is not usually at the forefront of our minds. However,...
NSU Wankel Spider
A rotary engine is any power unit that dispenses with a crankshaft to eliminate reciprocal motion, giving...
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Onomotion ONO
ONOMOTION is a Berlin based company. Its latest innovation, called the ONO, is a delivery-focused lightweight...
Opel Concept A
The Opel Concept A, unveiled in autumn 1999, served as a prototype for the first-generation Opel Agila, which...
Opel MAXX Concept
Opel Russelsheim Design Center in 1995 built a concept car that allows its future owner to transform it. It...
Opel Rocks E-Xtreme Concept
Opel has summed up the results of the Rocks-e Design Hack design hackathon and has chosen the winning project...
Opel Rocks-e / Rocks
Opel has unveiled the Rocks-e EV, which could be driven in Germany by teenagers over 15 years old with a...
Opel Rocks-e Cargo
The range of Opel Rocks-e compact EV is growing: the passenger version, introduced last summer, is joined by...
Opel Twin
Unveiled in 1992, the Opel Twin put forward an idea that was remarkably futuristic for its era. At the heart...
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Samy
In the mid-60s, the problem of a city car was extremely important. Practical proposals were seen so far,...
Smart City Coupe
The iconic Smart city car has its genesis in watchmaking rather than the automotive world, because the...
Spatz / BAG-Spatz
The history of Spatz is so ephemeral that to get to it you have to do a bit of history. The Brütsch 200...
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Volkswagen Beetle
Surely the most extraordinary success story in the history of the automobile, Volkswagen Beetle began life as...
Volkswagen Chicco
The Chicco prototype was developed by Volkswagen Design as an experiment in packaging, usability, and...
Volkswagen Chico
Volkswagen began thinking about creating a miniature city car almost forty years ago, when the first...
Volkswagen EA266
In the 1960s, Volkswagen began creating a replacement for its popular Volkswagen Käfer model, which has...
Volkswagen EA48
Volkswagen EA48 — a deeply unusual car for VW, and arguably the company’s second-ever truly clean-sheet...
Volkswagen Scooter
This Volkswagen Scooter concept was presented at the Geneva Motor Show in 1986. A more ambitious attempt at a...
Volkswagen Student
The Volkswagen Student is a 1982 concept car created as Volkswagen’s second attempt at producing a low-cost...
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2020 Smart EQ ForTwo & EQ ForFour
Smart will present the updated ForTwo and ForFour. The restyled Smart EQ Fortwo and EQ Forfour for the first...