All posts tagged "prototype"
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General Motors
General Motors XP-512H
15.11.2025The General Motors XP-512H, unveiled in 1969, offered a surprisingly forward-looking vision of automotive technology—one that...
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General Motors
General Motors XP-512G
15.11.2025The General Motors XP-512G, revealed in 1969, was part of an ambitious family of experimental commuter...
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Glas
Glas T700 Ranch Frua
20.10.2025The Glas Ranch Frua is a unique beach car prototype created by Italian coachbuilder Pietro Frua...
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Rob Walker Racing
Minisprint Traveller
12.10.2025The Minisprint Traveller, built in 1965 by Rob Walker Racing, was a unique experiment in reimagining...
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British Leyland
British Leyland SRV4
03.08.2025Safety was a major focus in the 1970s, and British Leyland joined the movement with its...
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Cixi
Cixi Vigoz
07.07.2025Many teams are racing to develop the next big thing in mobility, hoping to replace the...
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Volkswagen
Volkswagen EA48
04.07.2025Volkswagen EA48 — a deeply unusual car for VW, and arguably the company’s second-ever truly clean-sheet...
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Home built
Cross
07.06.2025It’s hard to believe, but the base for this stylish beach off-roader was a humble microcar....
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Tanghua (唐华)
Tanghua XY08
05.06.2025The final public appearance of a Tanghua vehicle took place in Paris in October 2008. Fittingly,...
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Tanghua (唐华)
Tanghua Detroit Fish (底特律鱼)
02.06.2025At the 2008 Detroit Motor Show, held in January, Tanghua surprised everyone by debuting not one,...
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Bombardier
Bombardier Venus
28.12.2024Since the advent of the automobile, various individuals, companies and governments have sought to create “people’s...
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Soletta
Soletta 750
02.12.2024Two-door four-seater concept Soletta 750 was developed by Swiss designer Salzmann. The rear wheels were driven...
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Qinghua University
Beijing Weixing Mini
01.12.2024Another mini made by the Qinghua University. Probably inspired by NSU Prinz.
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Amberavto
Amberavto LSEV
26.11.2024Moscow Technical University has shown a prototype of a compact electric car being developed by order...
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Alcar
Alcar 400
03.11.2024The Alcar 400 urban car project, characterised by high technical and design standards, was launched in...
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Fissore
Fissore Aruanda
29.08.2024The Fissore Aruanda, introduced in 1964, was a city car concept designed by Brazilian architecture student...
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WFM
WFM P80
30.12.2023The WFM P80 was constructed by J.Przylski of Bytom, Poland. The prototype was made by Zakłady...
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WSK
WSK Gacek
19.12.2023In the mid-1960s, the authorities in the Polish People’s Republic recognize the need to launch the...
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CQ Motors
CQ Motors Modern Times / QQ Prototype
10.12.2023Have you ever heard of Choro-Q Motors, a small EV manufacturer that was born in Japan...
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Jiangbei
Jiangbei JJ710 Prototype
20.08.2023In 1986, the State Operated Jiangbei Machinery Works in Jilin City, Jilin Province, began developing two...
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Citroen
Citroen Ami For All
05.06.2023The Citroen Ami has got a new version For All. The miniature city electric car was...
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Melex
Melex City Car
01.06.2023In April 1973, the construction of a prototype of an electric car, named City car Melex,...
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Concordia
Concordia Urbis Supercargo
28.04.2023Moscow-based Concordia has unveiled a prototype of a closed-cab electric truck based on the Urbis golf...
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NAMI
NAMI-049A ‘CELINA’
13.04.2023Did you know that in the 60’s in the USSR there was an attempt to create...
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Auto-Tri
Auto-Tri with aluminum body
23.03.2023Construcciones Gaitan, SL was founded in 1936 by Francisco Gaitan Sanchez in Seville. It began as...
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Auto-Tri
Auto-Tri Huevo
23.03.2023The company Construcciones Gaitan, SL founded in 1936 by Francisco Gaitan Sanchez, was located in Seville,...
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Barrio
Barrio Coche Ciudad (City Car)
22.03.2023At the Zaragoza Trade Fair in 1969, the Zaragoza-based company Manuel Barrio, SA presented this tiny...
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Bambino
Bambino Sport
20.03.2023Bambino Sport was a concept car based on the Bambino 200 microcar. The small roadster was...
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Home built
Tianjin-made jeep
16.03.2023In 1956, a very small jeep was made in Tianjin, China. It does not seem to...
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Benteng
Benteng
16.03.2023Benteng electric convertible was made in China in 1958. It is likely that the only copy...
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Western Washington University
Viking I
14.03.2023The Western Washington University’s Vehicle Research Institute conceptualized and produced the groundbreaking Viking I, an automobile...
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Baldi
Baldi Betty
19.02.2023Baldi Betty was another buggy version of the Fiat 500 with an original open-top body. It...
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France-Jet
France-Jet 1100 cc Prototype
19.01.2023In 1960, France-Jet built a last special version for the American market. It got long front...
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France-Jet
Jet 175 Prototype
18.01.2023Air Tourist and the Avolette brand give way to Union Industrielle and the Jet and France-Jet...
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Avia
Avia 350
18.01.2023The Avia 350 is an uncommercialized prototype microcar, developed in Czechoslovakia in the mid-1950s. The successful...
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Auto Sandal
Auto Sandal FN-L
17.01.2023In 1954, a full model change was planned, and a model with a front engine and...
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Auto Sandal
Nakano Yoshimishiro prototype
17.01.2023In 1947, Nakano Yoshimishiro founded the “Nakano Automobile Kogyo Company Limited” in the Japanese city of...
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Arzens
Arzens Le Carrossee
16.01.2023The famous French designer of railway locomotives Paul Arzens (1903-1990) in addition to his main work,...
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Arzens
Arzens L’Oeuf Electrique
16.01.2023Paul Arzens (1903-1990) was a famous French industrial designer, highly recognized for his railway designs. Arzens,...
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Lada
Lada 1801 Pony
14.01.2023The 70s of the 20th century was a time of fun buggy cars that were very...
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Bouffort
Bouffort Minima
13.01.2023As Europe recovered from the devastating World War II, the idea of car sharing emerged as...
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Bouffort
Bouffort Transville
11.01.2023Victor Bouffort developed automobiles as early as 1945, starting with a fairly well-known aerodynamically streamlined tricycle...
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Bouffort
Bouffort Enville
10.01.2023Victor Bouffort’s second three-wheeled vehicle was built in 1961. It was the Enville single-seater microcar which,...
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Bouffort
Bouffort City-Car / Peardrop
10.01.2023Having previously built the JB, aeronautical engineer Victor Bouffort went on to create a whole series...
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Allelectric
Allelectric
09.01.2023The West Penn Power Company, a subsidiary of the Allegheny Power System, Inc., was an electric...
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Alamagny
Alamagny Rhomboid
09.01.2023In 1947, the French engineer, Marcel Alamagny (engineer for Renault and Gordini), presented a curious prototype...
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Bond
Bond Bug Sprint Prototype
08.01.2023In 1995, Reliant’s new owner, Avonex, planned to relaunch the Bond Bug in updated form. It...
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Jurka
Jurka 2nd prototype
08.01.2023The Jurka 2nd prototype was the fifth and last car built by Spain-based company AISA, which...
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Jurka
Jurka prototype with Fermín Antonio Capella Hernán body
06.01.2023Spain-based AISA company met some problems: the name was already registered by by a water company...
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AISA
AISA wooden prototype
05.01.2023At the beginning of the 50s, Martí Martí, in addition to running his carpentry shop, decided...
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Qinghua University
Weixing microcars
11.12.2022In the 1950s, the Chinese government encouraged the development of minicars, which were used primarily as...
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Renault
Renault Zoom
22.10.2022The Renault Zoom squeezed into the smallest gap, carried two people, ran on electricity and the...
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Trabant
Trabant P603
30.09.2022The designers in Zwickau and the GDR government initially agreed that the Trabant 601 would be...
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Varga Zsolt
Varga Zsolt Kenguru
16.07.2022Varga Zsolt last hopeful work was Kangaroo. The development of the electric car, which can be...
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Varga Zsolt
Varga Zsolt Mono-el
16.07.2022Another cool project of Varga Zsolt was this three-wheeled scooter for one-person called the Mono-el. It...
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Varga Zsolt
Varga Zsolt Prototype for Hodgep
16.07.2022Varga Zsolt was a race engine mechanic, tuning master and designer. He made a lot of...
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Kiira
Kiira EV
10.07.2022We know almost nothing about the automotive industry in Uganda. There it a local company called...
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Hydroimpuls
Peppi
27.05.2022According to an approximate statistic, in Pskov, Russia, every second inhabitant owns a car, which in...
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SMZ
SMZ-NAMI-086 ‘Sputnik’
07.04.2022In the early 1960s, the Soviet leadership seriously considered the issue of creating a compact, cheap...
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Varga Zsolt
Varga Zsolt City-Car
27.03.2022Race engine mechanic, tuning master, designer – Zsolt Varga did a lot in his tragically short...
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Faction Technology
Faction Technology Delivery Robot
24.12.2021American startup Faction Technology finished the Y Combinator business incubator in February 2020, and now its...
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Vilkon Electric Vehicles
Vilkon Electric Vehicles Lulida
08.12.2021Vilkon Electric Vehicles, based in Kharkov, Ukraine, has developed an electric minicrossover. The new car was...
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Csaszi
Csaszi-2
18.11.2021The simple but impressive the first Csaszi prototype caught the attention of a construction company that...
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Csaszi
Csaszi
18.11.2021József Császár, the car mechanic from Pilisszentivan (Hungary) drew its first vehicle at the age of...
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Villamosipari Kutató Intézet
Tiny 70
17.11.2021As part of the 1968 transformation experiment known as the new economic mechanism in Hungary, the...
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Villamosipari Kutató Intézet
Tiny I
17.11.2021As part of the 1968 transformation experiment known as the new economic mechanism in Hungary, the...
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David Pajić
Prvenec
14.11.2021Under the leadership of Miroslav Nestorovich, enthusiasts from the Belgrade plant David Pajić, specializing in the...
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Dornier
Dornier Delta
11.11.2021In the 1950s, the German aircraft designer and founder of the aircraft manufacturer Dornier GmbH decided...
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BDG
Dolo JB-10
08.11.2021The story of Dolo JB is a vivid example of a successful car swindle. In 1947,...
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AFA
AFA Prototype
05.11.2021AFA (some sources affirm that it is the acronym for “Automobiles Fernández y Aymerich”, and other...
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AC
AC 4-wheel Prototype
04.11.2021In the early 1970s, the British Wilson Government had ideas to encourage the development of small...
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Motores Abril
Motores Abril Diesel Minicar
02.11.2021The Abril is one of many microcars manufactured in Spain. This was a unique vehicle, which...
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BMW
BMW Simple
31.10.2021BMW’s final three-wheeled prototype, the Simple, was an acronym of Sustainable and Innovative Mobility Product for...
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Fiat
Fiat 600 Weekend “due porte e mezzo” by Accossato
26.10.2021The Fiat 600 microcar is well known to everyone who is fond of European cars. It...
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Elio Motors
Elio Motors Elio-E
22.09.2021Elio Motors CEO Paul Ilio broke a three-year silence: “We never stopped working to make our...
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ERA
ERA
26.08.2021The ERA electric off-road vehicle capable of serving in reconnaissance and performing other combat missions was...
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ACM
ACM City One
26.08.2021German startup Adaptive City Mobility (ACM) has developed a cheap electric car for the city called...
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Louis Krause Krankenfahrzeugfabrik
Krausemobil
04.08.2021It was built by the private company “Louis Krause Krankenfahrzeugfabrik” from Leipzig in 1961. Designer –...
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NAMI
NAMI 0107
01.08.2021The idea of creating a compact front-wheel drive car was born in the USSR in the...
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SMZ
SMZ-1101
19.07.2021The history of the Soviet microcar Lada-1101 “Oka” did not begin at AvtoVAZ at all, although...
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Wuling
Wuling Mini EV Cabrio Concept
16.04.2021Wuling Motors will unveil its first electric convertible based on the Hongguang Mini EV at the...
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City Transformer
City Transformer CT-1 Prototype
18.02.2021The City Transformer startup has been around for a long time and news about it appears...
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Mobilize
Mobilize EZ-1
01.02.2021After launching its new Mobilize brand focused on shared mobility, Renault immediately presented the first prototype...
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Hi-Duk
Hi-Duk
28.01.2021Old tractors in Moldova can be replaced by modern all-terrain vehicles. Oleg Chargu and Maxime Konopline...
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Jean Pierre Ponthieu
l’Automodule
10.01.2021l’Automodule, this is how this ball on wheels called, was designed back in 1969 by the...
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MeV
MeV BeeAnywhere
10.12.2020In 2020, Manchester-based startup MeV has unveiled its BeeAnywhere electric car. Apparently, the two-seater city car...
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Skoda
Skoda Buggy type 736
26.10.2020In 125 years of existence, Skoda has created not only cars for motorsport but also cars...
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Gunārs Glūdiņš
Mini (Industrial sample no.22620)
24.10.2020Designer Gunārs Glūdiņš was born in 1938. After primary school Gunārs Glūdiņš studied at the Riga...
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Home built
Ussama Tuaba’s EV
10.10.2020Algerian engineer Ussama Tuaba, with the support of the state center for the development of renewable...
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NIPKIEM
Pioneer-63 / Pioneer (Пионер-63 / Пионер)
06.10.2020As early as the beginning of the 1950s, the Union of the Electrical Engineering Industry (OEP)...
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Fiat
Fiat 500 Ziba
29.06.2020Making a pickup based on a car with a rear engine is not so good idea,...
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D2H
D2H Tuk-Tuk
25.06.2020The British startup has developed an inexpensive and simple in design electric car for 3rd world...
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Alcre
Alcre Susana 500
05.05.2020Argentina had a boom of small, medium and heavy automotive industries at the beginning of the...
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Saransky Auto Repair Plant
Moto-Truck by ‘Saransky Auto Repair Plant’
18.04.2020The collapse of the Soviet Union was truly catastrophic, which affected many. Agriculture was one of...
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DAF
DAF “Rijdende Regenjas”
12.04.2020The single-seat 3-wheeled microcar DAF “Rijdende Regenjas” was created in 1941/1942 by Hubert Van Doorn, founder...
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Volvo
Volvo Elbil
29.03.2020In 1976, Volvo created Elbil prototype that could carry four passengers, despite taking up less space...
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Skoda
Škoda Sagitta (typ 911)
28.03.2020The 4-seater Škoda Sagitta (typ 911) was created in 1937. The car was equipped with a...
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Pininfarina
Pininfarina Eta Beta
27.01.2020The concept of a compact hybrid car Pininfarina Eta Beta was created in the mid 90’s...
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SEGZ
UMTET
24.01.2020Sarapul Electric Generator Plant (SEGZ), Russia, filed a patent for an environmentally friendly truck called UMTET...
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Ford
Ford Berliner
24.01.2020The concept of the city electric car Ford Berliner was created in the second half of...