Bigger than your bike, smaller than your typical European parking space
A product of traffic & parking problems in high-density urban areas, small cars have a lot of redeeming qualities. They are endlessly practical, often cute and mostly easy on your wallet. While you'd need to sacrifice much of your space and comforts, you'll have a reward of being considered ecologically & street "smart". Some of the models can go 40 km per liter (100 miles per gallon), which is advertised as "almost cheaper than walking".
Of course soccer moms will still need vans and macho fathers will still need a Hummer statement, but if you live in the urban area, where parking space could cost you as much as $250,000 (link) - these little critters may be just for you. They certainly speak to our sense of esthetic and evoke a strong desire to hug them and pat them on the back.
This would be the first part of a series; let us know about other models and we'll include them later.
1954 Mivalino small car (truly rare find) - Italian Mi-Val motorcycle company's own version of the Messerschmitt KR-175:
This is a very rich collector's category, as there have been multitude of models produced in many countries. It seems the Fifties were the "boom" times for miniature cars. Many prototypes achieved mass production, but their popularity cooled off in the Sixties, and regretfully almost stopped in the Seventies, with compact Japanese imports effectively killing sub-compact market.
Smallest ever car to go into mass production was the fascinating "Peel" P50 car (you could almost carry it as a suitcase) - more info here.
At this point we'd like to refer you to the most interesting site: The Microcar Museum. It has loads of pictures and data on most microcar models, including Mopetta.
The most easily recognizable of all "bubble cars" of the vintage era, the Isetta evokes the feelings of sophisticated European romance like no other small-budget car. It was seen in many movies of the era, and was quite popular for many years and earned many names. French called it "yogurt pot", Germans "coffin on wheels" (apparently disdaining very little space inside), Italians "little eggs". Originally designed in Italy, Isetta was made by various manufacturers, namely ISO, Velam and BMW.
The Isetta apparently had enough power in her to pull a trailer:
Isetta serving as a police vehicle? Why not, in the narrow streets of European towns it would come in very handy.
Trojan 200A from Heinkel (model from 1963) was a car similar to Isetta, but hyped as a better one; it did enjoy significant popularity with even stranger looking design:
We promise to publish more about Isetta and her clones in the future, as this little wonder on wheels seem to have captured the hearts of many collectors.
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The Small, the Tiny and the Utterly Absurd
The smallest of all is probably this bike, made by "Honda". Can it be folded even further to fit into your laptop bag?
Amazingly, they thought of the same concept as far back as 1951 in the Soviet Russia. Here's proof:
(image credit: Tekhnika Molodezhi, 1951)
This is a modification of Polski "Fiat" - a swanky convertible.
"Smart" car is everywhere these days. But have you seen "Smart"-based crane?
or "Smart"-based Jeep-like SUV... The Crosstown Concept, shown at the 2005 Frankfurt show:
I personally have spotted a few "little ones" on the streets in Amsterdam:
(images credit: Avi Abrams)
A smorgasbord of small: (we don't really know much about these models. If you have any info, send it in) UPDATE: Thank you all for the comments, I updated the info.
The American infatuation with the large cars (see evidence here and here), introduced the idea of the "backseat romance", which could not be properly fulfilled in these little vehicles (with the notable exception of Mr. Bean, perhaps, who even mastered the art of fully changing his clothes while driving). Europe and Japan continue to manufacture sub-compacts, with very few of these models seen overseas. Nevertheless, world's ecological situation may dictate another set of rules for all motorists, and we'll see yet another "Golden Age" of micro and "bubble" cars.
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I've seen that Corbin Sparrow more than a few times around my house. Haven't seen it lately but a year or two ago I'd see it all the time on the way to school.
In response to some of the pictures you have posted and were interested in more information: The Mivalino small car you have pictured, I'm not sure if the ownership of the manufacturing rights on that car was just transferred over or not, but I've seen a very similar vehicle (if not the same thing, it's really, really close if not) as the Messerschmitt KR200.
The BMW Isetta: BMW also made a car very commonly mistaken as an Isetta known best as the "600 Limo" which basically was a 4-seater version of the Isetta with a slightly more powerful engine and a rear door.
under Smorgasborg of Small: The yellow car with the trailer with flowers on it is also an Isetta.
The white truck looking thing with the "Yamamoto" tire cover is a Daihatsu Midget... personally I prefer the look of the Midgets through the 50's and 60's, when they were built with only 3 wheels.
The Corbin Sparrow is an interesting car, in that it's a 3-wheeled electric 1-seater vehicle that was created for the sole purpose of being a daily commuter car to/from work... the idea was that most people drive to work alone, and most of them drive under 30 miles each day, so why drive a gasoline car when you could just have something that would scoot you back and forth for next to nothing... they were used as the "goldmember" cars in Austin Powers 3... you'll find one for sale on ebay every now and again, but normally they need batteries replaced... fewer than 300 were made because Corbin Motors filed for bankruptcy, but the rights were sold to Myers Motors who re-released them in 2005 and is still producing them.
The 7th image down in the "Unknown" category is a Morgan Super Sport, circa 1932-34. I saw one puttering about when I was stationed in the UK back in the '80s. Everyone stopped to watch the thing go whizzing by. Looked like a fun car to own and operate.
Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Motor_Company
The HM Freeway was produced in Minnesota in the '70's. The design philosophy was, "The average passenger load in a 'full-sized' car is 1.4 people. Let's build a car that will carry that many." ie; One adult and two bags of groceries. I test drove one. It was noisy but quick. The Crosley refrigerator people built a couple different sized models in the late '40's. The engines used a number of parts common with their refrigeration compressors and could be serviced by their existing mechanics.
That red vehicle in Amsterdam en the white one which comes two pictures later, are electrical vehicles for disabled and elderly people. They have a legal max. of 25km/h
Some other kind of micro-car is frequently seen on Dutch roads which is something like small Smart, but bigger then these electrical cars. These latter vehicles have a petrol-engine, have a max. of 40km/h and you don't need a driver license for it.
The car labeled "Tri-Magnum" was built from a set of plans sold by Mechanix Illustrated magazine in the early 1980s. The car was designed by Robert Q. Riley. It is based on a motorcycle drivetrain married to a Volkswagen front end. A web search will turn up a number of examples built by various individuals around the US. Mr. Riley has his own design firm and is presently working on a hybrid descendant of the Tri-Magnum.
the one in http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1133522911&size=o
is called a carver, by Carver Engineering. You can see ab better shot of their tilt-vehicles at http://www.carver-engineering.com/, or you can go to http://flytheroad.com/ for a proposed hybrid variant by an American company.
Are any of these available in the U.S.A ?? How much do they cost?? Do they run on gas? What kind of mileage do they get? Where can I see them in person -are they legal in Missouri? I want to know more.
Peach (& Others) The Morgan Super Sport was produced in big numbers early on due to big tax credits offered at the time, but continued production through the 50's. They're good for freeway speed (70ish) stock, but most examples that you find today can go much faster. They've always been great club racers. They handle very well. I had a couple of friends with them in the San Francisco area and they come up for sale on eBay with some regularity.
My guess is that pretty much anything that canb be registered for the road in California can be registered anywhere in the U.S. (You can certainly register things here in Florida that aren't legal there).
The Norsjö Shopper was still quite common here in Sweden when I was growing up, at the end of the eighties. With an engine of less than 50cc, delivering a single horsepower, it was classified as a moped and could be driven without a license by anyone 15 or older. By that time it was mostly used by elderly ladies living in the countryside, though, except for a few that got in the way of the popular pastime of moped-tuning and got turned into three-wheeled deathtraps.
Don't forget the CityEl (www.cityel.de) an electric vehicle capable of transporting one adult and a child around 60-100 kilometres at up to 70 km/h depending on the model
the BMW Isetta was not called by the Germans "Coffin on wheels". It was the Messerschmitt KR 175 and it was called "Schneewittchen Sarg" = Snow White's Coffin.
According to the fairytale Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs Snow White was buried in a glass coffin and the Isetta are hardly look like a coffin, but the Messerschmitt.
With the fuel prices skyrocketing, we surely will have to use these small cars.The best cars are the ones which are fuel efficient and environment friendly. http://www.latest-cars-in-the-world.blogspot.com
Is there like some sort of mini Toyota? I know there's the Aygo, but anything smaller? Such as the B.M? (This may sound weird, but I've seen Erkel [from "Family Matters"]drive a BMW lsetta), and I was wondering if there is a small car for a kid like me to legally drive. Leave any suggestions if u find any! ------------------------------------- THIS MESSAGE GOES OUT TO THE PUBLIC
I'm amazed how famous the little Peel cars are, being from the Isle of Man - makes sense - a small city car for the smallest city there is. I'd love a little one of my own!
Just another comment about the Isetta: as Udo put it, it's the Messerschmitt that is called Schneewittchensarg. The Isetta was called Knutschkugel, which means "snogging ball" according to wikipedia. I think you get the idea ;)
Interestingly, lighting does not fork; it converges. The Tesla coil is, then, the terminus of the lighting, not the originator as you might think.
I learned this from a meteorological friend of mine. He said that almost all of the lightning strikes we see photographed are ground-to-sky lightning; the true sky-to-ground bolt is very rare.
Lightning and tesla coil discharges are very different things. About the only thing in common is that they are both electrically induced air plasmas.
Lightning is a pulsed DC current, produced when volumes of electrostatically charged atmosphere discharge to ground (or to another area of opposite charge.) A lighning 'strike' is usually one or more very brief, high current pulses in very quick succession. Usually too closely spaced to differentiate by eye, but sometimes you'll see a lighning bolt 'flicker' - you are seeing successive strikes along the same (or nearly same) ionisation path.
Tesla coils are high frequency AC resonant transformers, and the arcs are thus high frequency AC, with broad spectral content up into the Megahertz range due to the ringing square wave primary coil excitation. As a result, the visible behavior of tesla arcs is quite different to lightning. The processes in action are too complicated to explain in detail here, but the dominating ones are: point discharge, skin effect, persistence of ionization paths in air, charge mobility in air within the HF electric field surrounding the tesla coil head, and distortions of the field due to active plasma paths. Which all intereact to produce the 'bushy' spreading arc tangles typical of Tesla coils.
But, to address b. durbin's point, lightning (mostly) converges, but tesla arcs do actually diverge into the space around the coil, unless a single, direct arc forms to some nearby ground point. Its an AC current, and there is a single field source - the coil head. Hence, 'diverge' is a fair description.
Btw, the photo of Tesla surrounded by arcs is a double exposure he arranged. Documented, sorry don't have ref handy.
Mystery #1: Don't leave a child unattended in a car I guess. But normally there is no baby in the photo and it only means watch out for car theft or breaking in. Mystery #2: Hazardous materials cannot be transported beyond this point, there are several different types of this sign, according to which materials aren't allowed. There is a list of materials described for all signs.
mystery #2: this road sign exist in all european countries. It is usually only used in areas where transport of "real" explosives (like tnt, dynamite or gun powder) is common, f.ex. near a ammo factory or a coal mine. They may also be used at tunnel entrances and large bridges.
Bill, thank you, I updated the credits. However my blogger version does not allow me to see your profile. Can you please email me with your name for more credit info.
The first one is someone's attempt to copy writer Spike Milligan's gravestone, which say "I told you I was ill" in Gaelic. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3742443.stm
I went to the World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) in 2002. The convention center had posted several flyers up on various doors saying "THIS IS NOT A DOOR." Put a sign like that up and you get all sorts of editorial comments...
This is a jar. This is not a wall. (On the wall.) It is a notice. It is Cezanne. (and very existential): This is not a sign.
What's so strange about the sign with a frog? It just means watch out for frogs. Typically temporary signs placed in their mating season. It's meant to protect the frogs crossing the street (recognizable by squashing sound when driving).
The "Mysterious Russian sign (possibly fake)" is actually NOT fake! It's a picture of a hedgehog crossing the road. It is to warn drivers that there may be hedgehogs in the road and to attempt to avoid them.
that "mysterious russian sign" - the hedgehog is from a cartoon, where the hedgehog wonders around a foggy hillside, and falls into a stream. so the setting where the sign is - it's perfect :)
Re: "seen in Israeli bus" I agree the sign would be more appropriate in Israeli bus, but it is a really good street-art sticker from Prague subway (it was still in one of the trains a few weeks ago).
picky picky picky. Why can't people just enjoy these images for what they are? a robotic shell is still a robot of sorts. How do you know it doesn't have a seperate A.I of it's own?
I'm sorry that the name of Earle Bergey, who was responsible for those iconic robot attacks girl images was left off the list. He more than any other pulp artist, for establishing this genre.
The last of the "home intrusion" shots shows a tanker that has plowed through 3 buildings. This was taken in New Zealand, and it should be noted that the occupant of the last house was home at the time and narrowly avoided injury when the milk truck crashed into his lounge. (He was protected by the recliner he was sitting in.)
Many years ago, my cousin was driving through Kansas one winter and spun out onto the grassy median. A crazy ride, but the car stopped upright with occupants unharmed. A pause, and then a Pepsi truck fell on her car.
Pictures were taken so that they could move the truck (and she could get at her cat and birds, all of which turned out unharmed. Her French horn was not so fortunate. The pictures are very interesting, since the only thing not crushed was the driver's seat. (Alas, they have been swallowed in the backlog of my mother's online journal and I can't locate them at this time.)
My mother captions the pictures as "Taking the Pepsi Challenge."
I was looking at that German truck with the tube; The tube is the truck's own load which came from behind through the cab because of some abrupt braking.
the tanker through the ice is the drivers fault,it is a petro haul truck and the driver was told the ice was to thin for the weight he was hauling.he decided to go anyway and was charged,this was a truck from alberta canada
The ice road tanker incident occured crossing the Mackensie River at Fort Providence. It was early in the season before the ice thickened and the road was restricted to 4000kg. The driver missed or ignored the limit sign but still managed to drive his 40,000(?) kg truck several hundred meters before sinking. From the NWT DOT website. 2001?
The first "Drowned" photo appears to be Interstate 10 somewhere in Houston Tx, in 2001 a tropical storm flooded much of the city, leaving underpasses such as the one shown with as much as 20 feet of water in them.
Wow! Those old machines make my welder's heart go pitty-pat! I make "found" metal art and those babies would keep me busy for a whole lotta years. Looks like the Russian countryside is pretty, doesn't it?
Forests in Central Russia have much in common with old English forests, quiet small rivers, practically pristine lakes and rolling hills. Not bad, but there are some creepy places, ghost villages and weird strangers. Be prepared for lots of surprises.
These are really spectacular photos! I spent a summer touring Russia with an orchestra, and I saw a great number of hulking Soviet relics dotting the countryside.
As this post about dangerous roads has evolved into a Norway fjords article, I feel the need to share this cute video from YouTube on BASE jumping - ladybanana will be able to see some more people with no fear at all! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAWrt1dwbSY
Passo Stelvio is often used in Giro d'Italia - it's incredible, people actually race there on bikes.. Where a normal man would have problems getting there by car ;)
Wowie! What breathtaking shots! I don't have a fear of heights, but a couple of those pictures made me gasp out loud! I would really like to know how those bicyclists manage those drops! wild
The road between Villard Notre Dame and Villard Reymond in the French Alps west of Grenoble and south of Vizille is the scariest road I have ever driven, period, and I have driven some very scary mountain roads (to say nothing of driving over a bridge in Costa Rica that we had to help repair in order to get over it).
Just getting up to Villard Notre Dame was hair-raising, with a poorly-maintained, dark, rock-strewn tunnel. The death road itself hadn't been maintained in years, and there was at least one place where I know our right-side tires were not 100% on the roadway, and there was at least--at least!--at thousand-foot sheer drop to our right. But we couldn't back up, couldn't turn around, could only press forward hoping that the road would not get any narrower because of rockslides & all. Had there been, we would have had to hire some kind of heavy-duty helicopter to airlift our car to a safe place. Or abandon it forever.
The moral is, if you arrive at a road with gated entrance, and there's a sign there stating "if you take this road, your auto insurance is not applicable," you should really, truly take a different route, no matter how much you hate the thought of back-tracking.
Wow that Lysebotn Hairpin sequence gives me o very mixed feeling indeed...
After diving my motorcycle down from the visitors center, the "normal" curve in between two hairpins suprised me and I crashed quite hard.
I suppose a angel was on my shoulder: after kicking back the bent parts of my bike I was able to drive on, down trough the underground hairpin.... wow.
Great collection of roads there. An odd one I'd like to add is the Nürburgring Nordschleife. It's a racetrack that's open to the paying public. Anyone willing to risk his (in rare cases also her) life can book laps and do so with his own ride. It is dubbed the green hell because it goes on for 20 kilometers through wooded hills, often including rain or fog. It is said that there is one fatality per week. Most of these would me motorcyclists.
There is the scary story of a biker that had an accident throwing him and his machine into the woods. Although not killed in the crash, he died there because nobody noticed the accident.
Although it's not a road for transportation I think it's worth a mention.
There are also some pretty scary roads in morocco crossing the atlas mountains. These include dangerous traffic as well.
The first project looks very much like the studenthousing for the technical university in Delft, the Netherlands. http://www.duwo.nl/eCache/ENG/1/764.html
I don't think it started in 1970. I saw a modular housing development in Montreal in 1967, called Habitat. Google "habitat 67 montreal" and click on images.
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I've seen that Corbin Sparrow more than a few times around my house. Haven't seen it lately but a year or two ago I'd see it all the time on the way to school.
There are battery operated cars made by an indian manufacturer called 'Reva' that seems to fit the 'small' bill:
http://www.revaindia.com/worldwidegallery.htm
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/332278624_ed3d7df65d.jpg
this one is Ape, 3wheels producted by Italian Piaggio.
Mr. Bean may be able to change his clothes and do other things in a bubble car but he has other challenges in the area of romance, I think.
Thanks for the article, I love microcars.
In response to some of the pictures you have posted and were interested in more information:
The Mivalino small car you have pictured, I'm not sure if the ownership of the manufacturing rights on that car was just transferred over or not, but I've seen a very similar vehicle (if not the same thing, it's really, really close if not) as the Messerschmitt KR200.
The BMW Isetta: BMW also made a car very commonly mistaken as an Isetta known best as the "600 Limo" which basically was a 4-seater version of the Isetta with a slightly more powerful engine and a rear door.
under Smorgasborg of Small:
The yellow car with the trailer with flowers on it is also an Isetta.
The white truck looking thing with the "Yamamoto" tire cover is a Daihatsu Midget... personally I prefer the look of the Midgets through the 50's and 60's, when they were built with only 3 wheels.
The Corbin Sparrow is an interesting car, in that it's a 3-wheeled electric 1-seater vehicle that was created for the sole purpose of being a daily commuter car to/from work... the idea was that most people drive to work alone, and most of them drive under 30 miles each day, so why drive a gasoline car when you could just have something that would scoot you back and forth for next to nothing... they were used as the "goldmember" cars in Austin Powers 3... you'll find one for sale on ebay every now and again, but normally they need batteries replaced... fewer than 300 were made because Corbin Motors filed for bankruptcy, but the rights were sold to Myers Motors who re-released them in 2005 and is still producing them.
The 7th image down in the "Unknown" category is a Morgan Super Sport, circa 1932-34. I saw one puttering about when I was stationed in the UK back in the '80s. Everyone stopped to watch the thing go whizzing by. Looked like a fun car to own and operate.
Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Motor_Company
The HM Freeway was produced in Minnesota in the '70's. The design philosophy was, "The average passenger load in a 'full-sized' car is 1.4 people. Let's build a car that will carry that many." ie; One adult and two bags of groceries. I test drove one. It was noisy but quick. The Crosley refrigerator people built a couple different sized models in the late '40's. The engines used a number of parts common with their refrigeration compressors and could be serviced by their existing mechanics.
That red vehicle in Amsterdam en the white one which comes two pictures later, are electrical vehicles for disabled and elderly people. They have a legal max. of 25km/h
Some other kind of micro-car is frequently seen on Dutch roads which is something like small Smart, but bigger then these electrical cars.
These latter vehicles have a petrol-engine, have a max. of 40km/h and you don't need a driver license for it.
The car labeled "Tri-Magnum" was built from a set of plans sold by Mechanix Illustrated magazine in the early 1980s. The car was designed by Robert Q. Riley. It is based on a motorcycle drivetrain married to a Volkswagen front end. A web search will turn up a number of examples built by various individuals around the US. Mr. Riley has his own design firm and is presently working on a hybrid descendant of the Tri-Magnum.
the one in http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1133522911&size=o
is called a carver, by Carver Engineering. You can see ab better shot of their tilt-vehicles at http://www.carver-engineering.com/, or you can go to http://flytheroad.com/ for a proposed hybrid variant by an American company.
One of these cars is the carver, a Dutch autombile. (link)
It has been tested by topgear, the video can be seen on youtube (link)
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Enjoy
Maarten
I love this blog!
Are any of these available in the U.S.A ?? How much do they cost?? Do they run on gas? What kind of mileage do they get? Where can I see them in person -are they legal in Missouri? I want to know more.
Peach, looks like Corbin Sparrow and Smart car (in Canada) are the only ones available in North America.
Peach (& Others) The Morgan Super Sport was produced in big numbers early on due to big tax credits offered at the time, but continued production through the 50's. They're good for freeway speed (70ish) stock, but most examples that you find today can go much faster. They've always been great club racers. They handle very well. I had a couple of friends with them in the San Francisco area and they come up for sale on eBay with some regularity.
My guess is that pretty much anything that canb be registered for the road in California can be registered anywhere in the U.S. (You can certainly register things here in Florida that aren't legal there).
You might want to look into one.
The Norsjö Shopper was still quite common here in Sweden when I was growing up, at the end of the eighties. With an engine of less than 50cc, delivering a single horsepower, it was classified as a moped and could be driven without a license by anyone 15 or older. By that time it was mostly used by elderly ladies living in the countryside, though, except for a few that got in the way of the popular pastime of moped-tuning and got turned into three-wheeled deathtraps.
There is a lot of strange and small cars on http://www.kvadd.net
What about the Nash Metropolitan or MG midget? Or are these too big in comparison?
Don't forget the CityEl (www.cityel.de) an electric vehicle capable of transporting one adult and a child around 60-100 kilometres at up to 70 km/h depending on the model
Don't forget the Subaru 360. It was about the size of the Isetta.
More cars here:
http://www.microcarmuseum.com/tourindex.html
Hi,
the BMW Isetta was not called by the Germans "Coffin on wheels". It was the Messerschmitt KR 175 and it was called "Schneewittchen Sarg" = Snow White's Coffin.
According to the fairytale Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs Snow White was buried in a glass coffin and the Isetta are hardly look like a coffin, but the Messerschmitt.
Anyhow great site.
Best regards
Udo Doerge
Forgot the Eshelman :)
http://www.microcarmuseum.com/tour/eshelmanadultsport.html
For those who like to view more New-Generation-Fun-Cars Infos, Videos & Fotos, look @
http://www.karts2rent.de/
Hungary had only ONE self-manufactured car called PULI:
http://www.bparchiv.hu/magyar/kiadvany/bpn/49_50/091.jpg
It has been manufactured in Hódmezővásárhely, which is by birth city.
More pictures and some modified models:
http://totalcar.hu/tesztek/haszon/szertartasko/
I forgot to say, that the Puli was RATHER small. :) It should have the place among the collection :)
Do Google image search on "Goggomobil". Goggo's were very popular 4 wheel microcars from the 50's.
You are missing the Danish batterypowered ultramini car, 'Ellert'.
http://www.ellert.info/
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellert
It is still in production - now in Germany - under the name 'City El'.
http://www.cityel.de/
These car are beautiful to watch.But not comfortable to use.I think they are just showpieces.
With the fuel prices skyrocketing, we surely will have to use these small cars.The best cars are the ones which are fuel efficient and environment friendly.
http://www.latest-cars-in-the-world.blogspot.com
Is there like some sort of mini Toyota? I know there's the Aygo, but anything smaller? Such as the B.M? (This may sound weird, but I've seen Erkel [from "Family Matters"]drive a BMW lsetta), and I was wondering if there is a small car for a kid like me to legally drive. Leave any suggestions if u find any!
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I'm amazed how famous the little Peel cars are, being from the Isle of Man - makes sense - a small city car for the smallest city there is. I'd love a little one of my own!
Just another comment about the Isetta: as Udo put it, it's the Messerschmitt that is called Schneewittchensarg.
The Isetta was called Knutschkugel, which means "snogging ball" according to wikipedia. I think you get the idea ;)
Best regards, Anonymous.
Nice post, I have a peugeot 206, my nieces smallest simplesy buggy doesnt fit in the boot, so i'll be changing when we are starting a family.
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