All posts tagged "germany"

Ari

ARI Soleno

Launched on 2 May 2024, the ARI Soleno marked an important milestone for ARI Motors: it...

Ari

ARI 252 / 452 / 802

The ARI 252, 452 and 802 are three versions of the same two-seat electric microcar sold...

BMW

BMW Clever

The 2006 BMW Clever Research Vehicle (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport) was an ambitious...

Mercedes-Benz

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...

MCC

MCC Smart Eco-Sprinter

Unveiled alongside the Eco-Speedster in March 1993, the Eco-Sprinter represented the electric vision of MCC’s future...

MCC

MCC Smart Eco-Speedster

The story of Smart began with bold ideas rather than cautious compromises. In 1990, Swiss watchmaker...

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Chico

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

Opel

Opel Twin

Unveiled in 1992, the Opel Twin put forward an idea that was remarkably futuristic for its...

BMW

BMW E1 (Z15)

The second-generation BMW E1 prototype, internally designated Z15, was unveiled on September 9, 1993, at the...

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Scooter

This Volkswagen Scooter concept was presented at the Geneva Motor Show in 1986. A more ambitious...

Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz NAFA

The Mercedes-Benz NAFA was a forward-thinking 1982 concept car designed as a compact, highly maneuverable city...

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Student

The Volkswagen Student is a 1982 concept car created as Volkswagen’s second attempt at producing a...

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Chicco

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

Volkswagen

Volkswagen EA48

Volkswagen EA48 — a deeply unusual car for VW, and arguably the company’s second-ever truly clean-sheet...

Geparda

Geparda

This unusual hatchback is designed for those who want to start driving as soon as possible....

Quadvelo

Quadvelo

Except for dedicated cyclists who ride for pleasure rather than necessity, very few people willingly brave...

NSU

NSU P6 / P10 “Uruguay”

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

Winkler

Winkler Einspurauto EA-2

A year before the end of production of Mausers, Gustav Winkler bought the rights for their...

Atlantic AG

Atlantic Monocar

A short monocar era was inaugurated by the Berlin company Atlantic AG. The company assembled about...

Mauser

Mauser Einspurauto

At the end of the First World War, the Mauser AG arms factory, founded by the...

Articles

1956 Messerschmitt KR200 683-miles Time Capsule for Sale

Microcars emerged after World War II as a replacement for motorcycles and remained in vogue through...

Home built

Autocycle by August Paul

This autocycle began as a motorcycle that gradually evolved. Back in the day, cyclist August Paul...

Garia

Garia Golf Cart by Mansory

Mansory has updated the Garia Golf Cart, a luxury forged carbon golf cart. The tuning studio...

Fend

Fend Flitzer

In 1948, Fritz Fend in Rosenheim, Germany created a three-wheeled vehicle Fend Flitzer. Fend, a former...

Elaris

Elaris Pio

The Elaris Pio 2-seater electric city car is a Chinese alternative to the Smart from Jiangsu...

BAG

Spatz / BAG-Spatz

The history of Spatz is so ephemeral that to get to it you have to do...

Onomotion

Onomotion ONO

ONOMOTION is a Berlin based company. Its latest innovation, called the ONO, is a delivery-focused lightweight...

Opel

Opel Rocks E-Xtreme Concept

Opel has summed up the results of the Rocks-e Design Hack design hackathon and has chosen...

ElectricBrands

ElectricBrands XBus S

After the premiere of the XBus minibus last year and three pre-series models presented so far,...

Trabant

Trabant P603

The designers in Zwickau and the GDR government initially agreed that the Trabant 601 would be...

Evetta

Evetta Cargo

1st version ElectricBrands has prepared a whole range of different variants of the Evetta Prima electric...

Evetta

Evetta Openair

In addition to the base version Evetta Prima, the open-top version Evetta Openair was presented. Although...

Evetta

Evetta Prima

Evetta Prima is the new name of Artega Karo — the “new Isetta” which is now...

Elaris

Elaris Finn

The German supermarket chain Lidl intends to develop a new market segment for itself. It will...

ElectricBrands

Electric Brands Xbus Camper Concept

The German company Electric Brands has come up with a new version of the Xbus super...

Next.e.Go Mobile

e.Go e.wave X

German electric car manufacturer Next.e.Go Mobile showed its new creation, the e.wave X. The presentation of...

Opel

Opel Rocks-e Cargo

The range of Opel Rocks-e compact EV is growing: the passenger version, introduced last summer, is...

Twike

Twike 5

Mass production of the Twike 5 is scheduled to begin in November this year. The way...

Dornier

Dornier Delta

In the 1950s, the German aircraft designer and founder of the aircraft manufacturer Dornier GmbH decided...

BMW

BMW Simple

BMW’s final three-wheeled prototype, the Simple, was an acronym of Sustainable and Innovative Mobility Product for...

BMW

BMW C1

Although BMW’s 1991 C1 prototype was never made a runner, BMW said that it was to...

Alfi

Alfi Tricycle Van / Elektromobilette

In 1936, after an eight year break, the brand name Alfi appeared again. Alex Fischer had...

Alfi

Alfi Tri-cycle DKW Personnenwagen

The Berlin engineer Alexander (called Alex) Fischer brought his vehicles onto the market with interruptions and...

ACM

ACM City One

German startup Adaptive City Mobility (ACM) has developed a cheap electric car for the city called...

Opel

Opel Rocks-e / Rocks

Opel has unveiled the Rocks-e EV, which could be driven in Germany by teenagers over 15...

Louis Krause Krankenfahrzeugfabrik

Krausemobil

The Krausemobil was built in 1961 by the private company Louis Krause Krankenfahrzeugfabrik in Leipzig, to...

Opel

Opel Junior

The 80s were a time of tries and errors when it came to various concept cars....

Brütsch

Brütsch V2

The Brütsch V2 roadster was created in the mid 50s by the German company Egon Brütsch...

Canyon

Canyon

The German company Canyon has presented a concept of the future transport: from the outside it...

EVUM Motors

EVUM aCAR

Evum Motors announced the imminent start of sales of its first electric truck called the ‘aCar’....

ElectricBrands

Electric Brands eBussy

Electric Brands is a German company that plans to start producing the unusual eBussy EV no...

Opel

Opel MAXX Concept

Opel Russelsheim Design Center in 1995 built a concept car that allows its future owner to...

Hoffmann

Hoffmann Auto-Kabine

Auto-Kabine was created by the German company Hoffmann-Werke Lintorf. The company was engaged in the production...

Artega

Artega Karo-Isetta

The German company Artega announced the information about the Karo-Isetta electric city car made on the...

Ford

Ford Berliner

The concept of the city electric car Ford Berliner was created in the second half of...

LOCI

LOCI Berlin

A year ago, the German company BigRep showed a prototype of an electric motorcycle assembled from...

Porsche

Porsche Type 534

In the early 1950s, the German automobile concern Volkswagenwerk GmbH decided to expand the range of...

Articles

Electric Brabus Ultimate E is the slowest Brabus in the history

Some time ago Daimler AG announced that Smart refused to release models with an internal combustion...

Smart

2020 Smart EQ ForTwo & EQ ForFour

Smart will present the updated ForTwo and ForFour. The restyled Smart EQ Fortwo and EQ Forfour...

Articles

German tuner Mansory said goodbye to gasoline Smarts its own way

Tuning company Mansory is expanding its product portfolio with a refining program for the smallest Mercedes-Benz...

Ari

ARI 458

The German manufacturer Ari Motors based in Borna near Leipzig presented the new Ari 458 –...

AWS

AWS Shopper

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

Trabant

Trabant 601 WE II

Trabant 601 WE II was created in the early 80s as the replacement to Trabant 601...

Articles

Smart ForTwo ‘21’ Final Collector’s Edition says goodbye to ICE-powered Smarts

2020 is getting closer and that means one thing for Smart: in its entire range no...

Volkswagen

Volkswagen EA266

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

Articles

Geely Group will buy 50 percent of Smart

Daimler will sell half of Smart’s shares to Geely, a Chinese company that owns Geely Auto,...

Smart

Smart Forease+

In 2018, Smart brand owned by Daimler AG presented the Foreasy concept at the Paris Motor Show, which...

Articles

Smart Forease+ concept car with cool roof will be presented in Geneva

Daimler is going to present at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show the concept Smart Forease+, the first drawing...

Aper

Aper City Compact 3/5

Aper City Compact 3/5 project was presented at the 1985 Essen Motor Show in West Germany....

Home built

Samy

In the mid-60s, the problem of a city car was extremely important. Practical proposals were seen so far,...

Smart

Smart Forease Concept

With the Smart Forease Concept, the company is celebrating its 20th anniversary at the Paris Motor Show 2018....

Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes Garia Golf Cart

Mercedes Garia Golf Cart was created jointly with the Danish design company Garia. The prototype of...

Articles

Volkswagen Lupo with two 6-liter W12 from VW Phaeton

Over the summer Andre Pötsch debuted his crazy “12-liter” twin-engine Volkswagen Lupo. The Lupo is powered by two...

Articles

Brabus will make only ten of very special Ultimate Sunseeker ‘One of Ten’

The exclusive Brabus Ultimate Sunseeker limited edition “One of Ten” is built on the basis of...

Albrecht

Albrecht

The Friedrich Albrecht Fahrzeugfabrik was a German manufacturer of wheelchairs and cars for the disabled. The company...

AWZ

AWZ P70

AWZ P70, the successor to the IFA F8, was manufactured by Audi factory (internal designation F8 K)....

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Beetle

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

BMW

BMW Z21 ‘Just 4/2’

Something of a historical and engineering curiosity, the BMW Z21 ‘Just 4/2’ was a 1995 study...

Video

Check this cute Goggomobile after V8 swap

Aussie guys love to use V8 under the hood of cars where one never existed before. And this...

BMW

BMW Z13

With this low-slung city commuter BMW Z13, the first signs of BMW’s vision of future megacity...

BMW

BMW E1 (Z11)

BMW E1 (Z11) is a prototype of an electric vehicle from BMW. Once BMW’s sales and...

BMW

BMW 700

The story of the BMW 700 is, uncharacteristically for BMW, one of corporate dissent, division, and...

BMW

BMW 600

BMW 600 microcar was another tiny model of the company based on the 2-seater Isetta 300....

BMW

BMW Isetta 250 / 300 ‘Bubble Window’

Conscious that its mainstay motorcycle sales were slowing as rising German prosperity in the 1950s encouraged...

BMW

BMW 331/531

Many regret that the shapely BMW 331 never passed the prototype stage. Conceived by chief engineer...

Smart

Smart City Coupe

The iconic Smart city car has its genesis in watchmaking rather than the automotive world, because...

Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz F 300 Life-Jet

Carmakers have long shunned the idea of offering three-wheeled cars to their customers. Motorcycle manufacturers never...

Video

Brabus Ultimate 125 is the loudest small car ever

As it turns out, you can be both loud as well as “smart” on the road,...

Lepoix

Lepoix Ding

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

NSU

NSU Wankel Spider

A rotary engine is any power unit that dispenses with a crankshaft to eliminate reciprocal motion,...