All posts tagged "1970s"

Fiat

Fiat 126p NP

The Fiat 126p NP was an experimental Polish version of the Fiat 126 developed by the...

Garbarini Vehículos Especiales

Iguana

The Iguana was an Argentine recreational vehicle developed by Garbarini Vehículos Especiales of La Plata. Conceived...

Argo

Argo 133

The Argo 133 was a compact rear-engined car that replaced the Argo 600/800 in 1975. Based...

Automirage

Automirage 595 Pickwick

The Automirage 595 Pickwick was a lightweight Italian beach buggy introduced in 1974 by Automirage of...

Honda

Honda Hondina by Zagato

The Honda Hondina by Zagato was a small open sports-car concept created around Honda kei-car mechanicals....

Argo

Argo 600 & 800

The Argo 600 was a Georgian-built derivative of the Fiat 600, produced after the reorganisation of...

Fissore

Fissore 127 Scout

The Fissore 127 Scout was an open leisure vehicle based on the front-wheel-drive Fiat 127. Designed...

Vignale

Vignale Gamine

The Vignale Gamine was a small rear-engined roadster produced by Carrozzeria Vignale from 1967 until 1971....

CAP

CAP Super Scoiattolo

The Super Scoiattolo was the four-wheel-drive development of the Fiat 500-based Scoiattolo, built by Carrozzeria Arrigo...

Duport

Duport Onyx

The Duport Onyx was a French-built microcar developed by ski lift engineering company Duport to keep...

MEBEA

MEBEA Fox

MEBEA Fox was a small Greek utility vehicle launched in 1979 and developed in cooperation with...

Siva

Siva Llama

The Siva Llama was a British multi-purpose kit car from the 1970s, designed by Neville Trickett...

HMV

HMV FreeWay

The 1970s reshaped the auto industry. As fuel prices soared and the economy stumbled, massive V8-powered...

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Chico

Volkswagen began thinking about creating a miniature city car almost forty years ago, when the first...

Fiat

Fiat 127 Holiday

The Fiat 127 Holiday was a low-volume reinterpretation of Fiat’s new supermini, developed in 1972 by...

UrbaCar

UrbaCar

The UrbaCar, a niche, do-it-yourself (DIY) kit car design from the 1970 – the design was...

Ford

Ford Urban / Max by Ghia

The Ford Urban (later called the Max) was a forward-thinking Ghia concept from the early 1970s,...

Felber

Felber Rubis 112

The Felber Rubis 112 was built on the foundations of the Autobianchi A112, the small Italian...

Fiat

Fiat Ecos

The Fiat Ecos made its debut at the 1978 Turin Motor Show as a forward-looking study...

Fiat

Fiat 126 Vettura Urbana

Fiat 126 Vettura Urbana (or City Car, if translate) concept is the city car study. Unveiled...

Fiat

Fiat 126 Cavalletta

At the 1976 Turin Motor Show, the Fiat stand was adorned by a curious little creature....

Fiat

Fiat 126 Minimaxi Moretti

First introduced in 1970, the Minimaxi models—initially built on the Fiat 500 platform and later on...

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Chicco

The Chicco prototype was developed by Volkswagen Design as an experiment in packaging, usability, and low-cost...

Michelotti

Michelotti LEM

The Michelotti LEM—short for “Mobile Electronic Laboratory”—was an innovative electric city car developed by designer Giovanni...

Toyota

Toyota EV2

At the 1973 Tokyo Motor Show, five Japanese manufacturers united to showcase a complete range of...

Daihatsu

Daihatsu EV1

At the 1973 Tokyo Motor Show five Japanese manufacturers joined forces to create a full lineup...

Daihatsu

Daihatsu BCX-II

The 1972 Daihatsu BCX-II concept was powered by a small electric motor mounted at the rear....

Fiat

Fiat Citycar

This compact two-seat Fiat Citycar was conceived as an all-electric concept, powered by a DC motor...

Fiat

Fiat X 1/23

Unveiled at the 1974 Turin Motor Show alongside the new Fiat 131, the Fiat X 1/23...

Daihatsu

Daihatsu BCX

The BCX was an early electric concept car and the first in a planned series of...

Nissan

Nissan 315X

Nissan may have brought electric cars to the mainstream with the Leaf back in 2010, but...

Mazda

Mazda EV3

The Mazda EV3, introduced in 1973, was one of Japan’s earliest forays into electric mobility. It...

Holden

Holden Cub

The Holden Cub Concept, developed in 1973, was an ambitious attempt to rethink the city car....

Renault

Renault VBG

The Renault VBG Prototype was the first major assignment Robert Opron tackled after joining Renault from...

Piaggio

Piaggio Vettura Concept

The Piaggio Vettura Concept, revealed in 1974, was a daring departure for the Italian scooter maker...

Toyota

Toyota Commuter

Toyota unveiled its prototype electronic town car, the Toyota Commuter, at the 17th Tokyo Motor Show...

Ghia

Ghia City Car

The Ghia City Car is the only surviving example from the short period when Ghia was...

NSU

NSU P6 / P10 “Uruguay”

When considering the global automotive market, Uruguay is not usually at the forefront of our minds....

Fiat

Fiat 126p

The Fiat 126p, the first of which rolled off the assembly line on June 6, 1973,...

Melex

Melex City Car

In April 1973, the construction of a prototype of an electric car, named City car Melex,...

Melex

Melex 102 / 112 / 202 / 212

Founded in Mielec, Poland in 1970, Melex golf cars entered the U.S. market in June 1971....

Biota

Biota Mk2

John Houghton redesigned the Biota Mk1 after 25 units had been produced and introduced the Mk2...

Bulanti

Bulanti Mini

Brian Rawlings gained valuable experience building sports cars while working for Nom Engineering. By the time...

Home built

Formula Mini Plus

Open-wheel single-seater formula racing has always been popular, especially when it’s affordable and easy to build...

Shanghai

Shanghai SK720

A batch of 30 microcars Shanghai SK720 was produced in 1979-1980. The engine was the Changjiang...

Jinlu

Jinlu SH740

In 1979, a front engine Jinlu SH740 with an air-cooled engine was introduced. Jinlu means Golden...

Baldi

Baldi Riky

The Baldi Riky of 1972 was a Fiat 850 Special given an original open buggy body...

Arola

Arola Type 14 / 15 / 20

When Arola presented its first range of quadricycles in 1979, they bore close resemblance with the...

Amphicat

Amphicat

At the 1971 Barcelona Auto Show, the “Gato Montes”, a 6-wheel drive ATV designed by Artes...

Lada

Lada 1801 Pony

The 70s of the 20th century was a time of fun buggy cars that were very...

Bouffort

Bouffort Minima

As Europe recovered from the devastating World War II, the idea of car sharing emerged as...

Commuter Vehicles

Commuter Vehicles Comuta-Van

In 1979, the Sebring-Vanguard CitiVan, a limited production extended-wheelbase version of the CitiCar, became the Comuta-Van....

Sebring-Vanguard

Sebring-Vanguard CitiVan

The CitiVan, was a limited production extended-wheelbase version of the CitiCar. Produced and sold from 1977...

Sebring-Vanguard

Sebring-Vanguard CitiCar

In the early 1970s, Robert Beaumont, founder and owner of the Sebring-Vanguard company in Florida, was...

Győr Mezőgép

Győr Mezőgép Puli

During the period 1949-1950, the mechanization of agriculture, agricultural machinery repair and component manufacturing companies were...

Villamosipari Kutató Intézet

Tiny 70

As part of the 1968 transformation experiment known as the new economic mechanism in Hungary, the...

Villamosipari Kutató Intézet

Tiny I

As part of the 1968 transformation experiment known as the new economic mechanism in Hungary, the...

Lawil

Lawil Willam City A3

It’s hard to believe that this micro-car called Lawil Willam City comes from Italy, the country...

SMZ

SMZ-1101

The history of the Soviet microcar Lada-1101 “Oka” did not begin at AvtoVAZ at all, although...

Home built

Ant Amphibious

The “Ant” is a wheel-known three-wheeled scooter with a cargo body from in the USSR. But...

Skoda

Skoda Buggy type 736

In 125 years of existence, Skoda has created not only cars for motorsport but also cars...

Baldi

Baldi BB5 Frog

The Baldi BB5 Frog was created by Carrozziere G.A.M.C Baldi in Sanremo. The car was made...

Citroen

Citroen LN / LNA

The Citroen LN was created by the French company in the mid 70s. By that time,...

New Map

New Map Solyto TC-7

Solyto TC-7 small truck was very popular in France in the middle of the last century....

Fiat

Fiat 500 Minimaxi Moretti

Fiat 500 Minimaxi Moretti was created by the Italian automobile company Moretti Motors. This company began building...

Puma

Mini Puma

In the mid-1960s, Puma sketched out the project for a popular national car, taking advantage of...

Volvo

Volvo Elbil

In 1976, Volvo created Elbil prototype that could carry four passengers, despite taking up less space...

SEGZ

UMTET

Sarapul Electric Generator Plant (SEGZ), Russia, filed a patent for an environmentally friendly truck called UMTET...

Home built

Home built roadster from Siberia

This tiny home-made car was made in Siberia. It was created in 1971. According to the...

BMA

BMA Amica

One of the earliest Italian microcars, the BMA Arnica was first seen in 1971. Produced in...

BET

BET 500

In 1973, BET introduced its second passenger three-wheeler called the ‘BET 500’. It had slightly more...

B&Z

B&Z Electra King

One of the most successful and long-lived electric cars ever made was the Electra King made...

Automirage

Automirage 3

Automirage was one of Italy’s biggest beach buggy manufacturers in the 1970s, but it soon abandoned...

Arola

Arola SP

In 1978, the model range of Arola 3-wheelers was increased by the new model SP, which...

Arola

Arola Type 10 / 11 / 12

One of the most successful of all French microcars was the Arola. First presented in 1976,...

AWS

AWS Shopper

The 2-seat AWS Shopper was created in 1970 by the German entrepreneur Walter Schätzle, a former...

Honda

Honda Hondina Zagato

The Honda Hondina sports car was created in 1970 by the Italian studio Zagato, commissioned by...

Volkswagen

Volkswagen EA266

In the 1960s, Volkswagen began creating a replacement for its popular Volkswagen Käfer model, which has been...

AnyCar

AnyCar III

Mixing parts of different cars in one project has always been the basis for creating hot...

Lucas

Lucas Electric Taxi

While many suppliers of car parts tried to move from a supplier to a full-fledged automaker (for...

American Electric

American Electric Urban Runabout

In 1979, American Electric Company created a prototype of the electric microcar Urban Runabout. It had...

Electraction

Electraction Rickshaw

Electric cars of the 1970s were heavy and slow. They had small weird fiberglass bodies. The Electraction...

AMC

AMC Concept Electron

In 1977 American Motors updated its Amitron prototype and re-announced it as the Concept Electron, one...

Alta

Alta A200

Alta was a Greek manufacturer of 3-wheel microcars and trucks, as well as motorcycles.  Production started...

SEAB

SEAB Flipper

This is 1978 SEAB Flipper — the car that you can drive without a driving license. The...

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Beetle

Surely the most extraordinary success story in the history of the automobile, Volkswagen Beetle began life...

Copper

Copper Electric Runabout

With every dramatic surge in oil prices comes renewed interest in alternative fuels for cars; the...

Stimson

Stimson Scorcher

Britain’s licensing authorities weren’t too sure what to make of the Stimson Scorcher in 1976, hesitatingly...

Lepoix

Lepoix Ding

The French-born industrial designer Louis Lepoix was probably best known for his commercial vehicles and household...

Zagato

Zagato Zele 1000

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Italian coachbuilder Zagato was a byword for motoring excitement—a dream factory...

Fiat

Fiat ESV 1500

The impetus for Fiat’s attempt to create the safest possible city car came from the US....

Austin

Austin Mini

Conceived as an alternative to the “bubble cars” popular at the time of the 1956 Suez...

Addax

Addax Charly

In 1977, French company Société Anonyme d’études et de Construction Automobiles et Motocycles (SECAM) introduced its new...

ACOMA

ACOMA Comtesse Break Type 790

In 1979, ACOMA itroduced a new 4-wheel model Comtesse Break Type 790. It shares the chassis...

ACOMA

ACOMA Super Comtesse Type 780E

In 1978, ACOMA presented its first 4-wheel microcar Super Comtesse Type 780E. It shared the same...

ACOMA

ACOMA Comtesse Type 770

In 1977, ACOMA presented an improved version of successful but dangerous Mini Comtesse Type 730E. The...

ACOMA

ACOMA Mini Comtesse Type 73 / Type 730E

After the first prototype, in 1973 ACOMA presented its most known model Mini Comtesse Type 73,...

ACOMA

ACOMA Mini Comtesse First Version

The very first ACOMA Mini Comtesse was presented in 1972. This rare photos give us the...

AC

AC Invacar Model 70

In the late 60s, AC presented an updated version of its 3-wheeler for disabled people called...

Velorex

Velorex 435-O

Producing of Velorex 3-wheelers was stopped in 1971, when the factory presented four-wheel microcar for disabled...