Alba Regia
In 1955, the Hungarian Ministry of Metallurgy and Machine Industry commissioned three engineers: Ernő Rubik,...
Hungarian Small Cars: Complete A–Z List
Hungary has a surprisingly rich history of small cars, prototypes and home-built vehicles. This page lists small cars from Hungary.
Browse the list alphabetically and open a model page for photos, history and specifications. To explore by maker instead, use the catalog A–Z.
18BRANDS
37MODELS
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Alma 903 Cabrio
Alma is a Hungary-made small car manufactured by Papa’s brothers as a hobby car for young people and...
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Balaton
After Schadek János had lost interest in his “child”, the Úttörő, the prototype was sent to...
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Dózsa-Farkas András 3-wheeler
In 1950, Dózsa-Farkas András (1902-1982) started the industrial design training in Academy of Applied...
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Endre Surányi dwarf cars
Everlasting, bohemian, versatile – Endre Surányi (1913-1996), who was a “garage master of...
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Favorit by László Vörös
As early as 1947, László Vörös made a three-wheeled family motorcycle, which ran for three years. Then he...
Ferenc Grósz 3-wheeler With Volkswagen Parts
This interesting 3-wheeler was built by Ferenc Grósz, a car mechanic from Veszprém, Hungary, in the late...
Ferenc Grósz Dwarf Car
In the late 1950s, Ferenc Grósz from Hungary and his older son, Ferenc Grósz Jr., made another small car....
Fesztival by Kálmán Szabadi
Kálmán Szabadi, who died at the age of 81 in the winter of 2010, was best known for being a shipbuilder,...
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Gitta
In 1958, István Karika, a small craftsman from Budapest, made a three-wheeled miniature car. It was named...
Győr Mezőgép Puli
During the period 1949-1950, the mechanization of agriculture, agricultural machinery repair and component...
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HICOX Mathias / Magyar Álom
Mátyás Borlóy’s vehicle development company tried several promising initiatives around the change of...
Hodgep Puli
The story of the Puli microcar from Hungary is novel and spiced with typical elements of the enterprise of...
Home built microcar by Gerber László
In 1961, Gerber László of Kispest, head of the Red Star Tractor Factory, designed and built a dwarf car...
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Ikarus Tecoplan Leo
Ikarus. This famous automobile brand is known for its buses that most of us have had the chance to ride on,...
Imre Dongó’s city car
Imre Dongó, teacher of Bercsényi Miklós Vocational Secondary School and Grammar School in Győr, was a...
Imre Vogl home built car
After WWII the Soviets prohibited the East-European countries to produce passenger cars. In 1953 Hungary...
István Domoszlai 3-wheeler
Currently, this three-wheeled small car built in Debrecen by István Domoszlai is located in Budapest. The...
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Lopakodo
This home built buggy was made in 1997 by an artisan from Sárospatak (Hungary) with a “skillful hand”....
Lőrinc Petrovics Children’s Car
At the Budapest Industrial Fair in 1958, many children envied watching the small car in the pictures, which...
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Pajtás
This plastic-doomed for all-around visibility, a three-wheeled bubble car Pajtás was built by Pál Fodor, an...
Pente 500
At the end of World War II, approx. in 1944 János Pentelényi started designing a small car. In 1945, while...
Pente 600
János Pentelényi, learning from the mistakes of the Pente 500, made the larger and more powerful Pente 600...
Peredy Zoltán single-person car and Frog small car
Peredy Zoltán was born in 1963. His father, Árpád Peredy built all kinds of structures, from light rail...
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Robix 500 W / 1000 W
In the 1980s, the Robix Mezőgazdasági Gépgyártó Vállalat, which was formed from the Veszprém-based...
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Sigma 650
Sigma 650 was a prototype of a city car created by József Csathó in the 80s. As a student at the University...
Simon Ernő home-built microcar
Ernő Simon was born in St. Petersburg in 1924. As a young assistant he worked at the Danube Aircraft Factory...
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Tiny 70
As part of the 1968 transformation experiment known as the new economic mechanism in Hungary, the Electricity...
Trabant Buggy By János Kesjár jr.
In the 1960s, buggy madness spilled over to Europe. This story is about János Kesjár Jr., a well-known...
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Úttörő
In 1953, the Ministry of Metallurgy and Mechanical Engineering planned to manufacture a vehicle with a...
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Varga Zsolt City-Car
Race engine mechanic, tuning master, designer – Zsolt Varga did a lot in his tragically short life. He...
Varga Zsolt Kenguru
Varga Zsolt last hopeful work was Kangaroo. The development of the electric car, which can be driven from a...
Varga Zsolt Mono-el
Another cool project of Varga Zsolt was this three-wheeled scooter for one-person called the Mono-el. It had...
Varga Zsolt Prototype for Hodgep
Varga Zsolt was a race engine mechanic, tuning master and designer. He made a lot of different projects...
Vellák
József Vellák from Nagykanizsa learned the locksmith’s profession in 1919 in the locksmith shop of...