All posts tagged "open-top"

Garbarini Vehículos Especiales

Iguana

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

Boulevard Machine Works

BMW Golf Car

Boulevard Machine Works was a small California company founded by Leslie Perhacs, a Hungarian immigrant who...

Moke

Moke Californian

The Moke is returning to the United States after a 40-year absence, this time as an...

Skorpion

Skorpion & Super Skorpion

The Skorpion was a small American sports car with a fibreglass body, developed in California after...

Fissore

Fissore 127 Scout

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

Fiat

Fiat 500 Savio Albarella

The Fiat 500 Albarella was a very limited-production Italian beach car developed by Carrozzeria Savio in...

CAP

CAP Super Scoiattolo

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

GPM

GPM Eole

The GPM Eole was a French leisure and utility vehicle developed by GPM Automobile SA in...

Duport

Duport Onyx

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

Mega

Mega Club / Ranch / Tjaffer

The Mega Club was a leisure vehicle produced by French manufacturer Aixam under its Mega sub-brand...

Renault

Renault 4 Plein Air

The Renault 4 Plein Air was a short-lived open leisure version of the Renault 4, introduced...

MEBEA

MEBEA Fox

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

Foulkes

Foulkes Impala

The Foulkes Impala was a British kit car produced by Foulkes Developments Ltd. in Dartmouth, Devon,...

Fioravanti

Fioravanti Nyce

In recent years, one of the most distinctive emerging segments in the automotive world has been...

Tazzari

Tazzari Zero 4 Buggy

The Tazzari Zero 4 Buggy is a compact, retro-styled electric vehicle from Italian manufacturer Tazzari, designed...

Tazzari

Tazzari Zero 4 Opensky

Tazzari Zero 4 Opensky is an exhilarating open-air electric mini SUV. Born in Imola’s Motor Valley,...

Italdesign

ItalDesign Lucciola

ItalDesign’s 1993 Lucciola concept was a small hybrid city car that combined eco‑friendliness, versatility, and playful...

Fiat

Fiat 127 Holiday

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

Fiat

Fiat 500 F Decathlon

Introduced in 1965, the Fiat 500 F marked the most mature stage in the evolution of...

Suzuki

Suzuki CUE

The Suzuki CUE Concept debuted in 1991 as a kei car prototype at the 30th Tokyo...

Toyota

Toyota EV-30

The Toyota EV-30 was a two-seat electric concept car powered by zinc-bromine batteries and first unveiled...

Daihatsu

Daihatsu Cuore Boneschi

The Daihatsu Cuore Boneschi was a one-off concept created by Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Boneschi on the...

Fiat

Fiat 126 Minimaxi Moretti

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

Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi Minica Jeep Concept

Very little information has been published about the 1969 Mitsubishi Minica Jeep Concept. What is known...

DAF

DAF Kini Beach Car by Michelotti

When Prince Willem-Alexander — now the king of the Netherlands — was born, the former Dutch...

General Motors

General Motors XP-512G

The General Motors XP-512G, revealed in 1969, was part of an ambitious family of experimental commuter...

Fiat

Fiat Topolino Garavini

Resurrected Italian coachbuilder Garavini has unveiled its version of the electric Fiat Topolino quadricycle, charging a...

Micro

Microlino Spiaggina

Microlino first unveiled the Spiaggina concept at the 2022 Paris Motor Show and has now returned...

Home built

Home Built Microcar by Juri Nesterov

In the late 1980s, Juri Nesterov of Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, completed work on a homemade microcar....

Fiat

Fiat Topolino by Castagna Milano

Castagna Milano, known for its “Spiaggina” transformations of the Fiat 500, now extends a comparable offering...

Daihatsu

Daihatsu Fellow Buggy

Daihatsu made only 100 units of the “Fellow Buggy”, which was a recreational vehicle that appealed...

Fiat

Fiat 500e Tender2 by Castagna Milano

Italian bodybuilder Castagna Milano has unveiled a new generation of its Tender2 model, based on the...

Avro

Avro Monocar

In the 1920s, Edwin Elliott Verdon Rowe, founder of the famous AVRO aircraft company, spent his...

Video

Crazy 3 Wheeled Classic Mini Cooper 1964 Ranger Cub Mini Based Kit Car

Let’s go back to Happy Valley, Oregon, where we find Jeremy Thorpe, owner of Jet Motors,...

Ferves

Ferves Ranger

At the 1966 Turin Motor Show, the Ferves Ranger was introduced as a unique and distinctly...

Biscuter

Biscuter 200-F (Pegasin)

Introduced in 1957, the Biscuter 200-F (or Pegasin) was the last of the saga. The new...

Biscuter

Biscuter 100 / 200 A (Normal Turismo)

Despite what it meant in post-war Spain and its popular roots (which gave rise to jokes...

B&B

B&B Brogan Doodlebug

The “B&B Specialty Company” was an American company, located in the town of Rossmoyne (Ohio). After...

Baldi

Baldi Sahara 4

The Baldi Sahara 4 was an Italian open-top vehicle based on the Renault 4. Produced by...

Morrison Electricar

Morrison Midge Runabout

Morrison Midge Runabout was a rare three-wheeled electric car from the 1960s. The Midge Runabout was...

Feiyue

Feiyue

The Feiyue was produced by the Shanghai Mini-Auto Works from August 1958. Feiyue, which means “flying...

Haiyan

Haiyan CK730

Introduced at the National Exhibition of Industry and Communication in Beijing in 1959, this open-top mini-car...

Huke

Huke 580

The Huke 580 was a one-eyed, four-seat open minicar built in October 1958 by the Shanghai...

Haiyan

Haiyan 250

This is the three-seat open-top Haiyan 250, powered by a 250cc 2-stroke 1-cylinder Changjiang motorcycle engine....

Baldi

Baldi El Sabre

Baldi El Sabre was another buggy-styled microcar based on the Fiat 850. This one was built...

Baldi

Fiat 500 Tilly by Baldy

Baldi GAMC was a coachbuilder based in the Sanremo region of Italy. One of Baldi’s early...

Avolette

Avolette 125 / 150 Lambretta engine

At the end of 1957, a redesign of the “Avolette” with new shapes and better mechanics,...

Auto Sandal

Nakano Yoshimishiro prototype

In 1947, Nakano Yoshimishiro founded the “Nakano Automobile Kogyo Company Limited” in the Japanese city of...

Home built

A.M.P. 3-wheeler

In 1957, in Pamplona, ​​Antonio Muñoz Perera (A.M.P.), built a unique prototype of a touring tricycle...

Lada

Lada 1801 Pony

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

Bouffort

Bouffort City-Car / Peardrop

Having previously built the JB, aeronautical engineer Victor Bouffort went on to create a whole series...

Boselli

Boselli Libellula

The Boselli brothers founded FB-Mondial, a motorcycle company based in Milan that was active from 1948...

Borgman

Borgman Dwerg

The Borgman Dwerg (Dutch for ‘dwarf’) was a small three-wheeler made by a company based in...

Evetta

Evetta Openair

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

Home built

Ferenc Grósz Dwarf Car

In the late 1950s, Ferenc Grósz from Hungary and his older son, Ferenc Grósz Jr., made...

Villamosipari Kutató Intézet

Tiny I

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

Fiat

Fiat 600 Savio Jungla

The Savio Jungla was a lightweight Italian utility vehicle developed by Carrozzeria Savio on Fiat 600D...

Wuling

Wuling Mini EV Cabrio Concept

Wuling Motors will unveil its first electric convertible based on the Hongguang Mini EV at the...

Home built

Ant Amphibious

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

Citroen

Citroën Scarabée d’Or

Citroën Scarabée d’Or was a concept of an all-wheel drive passenger car created in 1990 by...

Fiat

Fiat 500 Minimaxi Moretti

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

SEAT

Seat 600 Multipla Panoramica

In 1960, a hundred thousandth Seat cars were launched at the Seat factory in the free...

Gitta

Gitta

In 1958 István Karika, a small craftsman from Budapest, built a three-wheeled miniature car and named...

Honda

Honda Hondina Zagato

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

AEM

AEM Scout

The AEM (Automotive Engineering & Manufacturing Company) Scout is a Welsh-built Mini Moke based microcar with...

AEM

AEM Commanchero Six

The AEM Commanchero Six is a rare six-wheel version of the AEM Scout, a Mini-based utility...

Electraction

Electraction Rickshaw

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

Andersen Motor Company

AMC Cub

The Andersen Motor Company from Liverpool, United Kingdom, developed the AMC Cub — a microcar inspired the...

Suzuki

Suzuki e-Survivor

Suzuki has presented a fun electric concept car e-Survivor. It is a small, robust open top SUV to be officially presented at...

Skoda

Skoda Element Concept

Skoda has unveiled a new concept named the Element. Based on the Citigo, the Element is...

ACOMA

ACOMA Comtesse Sport Type 800E

ACOMA Comtesse Sport was a quite similar to Comtesse Coupe, but had a simplier targa body....

AC

AC Acedes (Model 57)

In 1957 AC introduced its Model 57 (or Acedes) 3-wheeler for invalids. These microcars were sold...

AC

AC All-Weather Tricycle

In 1949 AC made a prototype of All-Weather Tricycle for disabled people. It looked awesome and...

Berkeley

Berkeley T60/4

Berkeley T60/4 came in October 1960 to expand T60 range. Both versions (T60 and T60/4) are mechanically...

Berkeley

Berkeley T60

At the end of 50s, three wheeler cars were popular, especially with motorcyclists in the UK who...