Sentences with phrase «isetta microcars»

Having to give up your racing line to zig zag around some F rank microcar is a lot harder than it seems.

Smart has just unveiled the electrified version of its Fortwo microcar.

He also services and restores relics ranging from spunky Honda motorcycles to rusted - out pickup trucks, from a stumpy Subaru microcar to a luscious D - type Jag.

A car as shiny and vulnerable as the Veyron is constantly under attack from swarms of scooters, flocks of microcars on steroids, and shoals of taxis, delivery vans, and trucks.

The ForTwo measures 14 inches shorter from bumper to bumper, but other microcars — like the Mini Cooper and the Fiat 500 — are more than a foot longer.

Based on the T25 and T27 microcar designs, which feature a 51 - hp 660 - cc Mitsubishi I - 3 engine and 340 - hp electric Zytec engine, respectively, the Motiv.e concept will also utilize GMD's patented iStream manufacturing technology.

Daihatsu has long produced efficient microcars for the Japanese K - car (kei jidosha) market, and on Asian soil, the marque has a surprisingly large cult following.

It seems that Gordon Murray Design (GMD) has finally found a development partner with which to license its innovative microcar designs, as Yamaha unveiled the Motiv.e city car concept at the 2013 Tokyo auto show.

It looks smaller on the highway than it does on the show stand, and while it's no microcar, it exhibits none of the largesse or long, fat flanks of its competition.

These microcars were built under license by BMW, offering drivers 94 mpg from its one - cylinder engine.

Microcars were popular at the time, so BMW set its sights on Italian microcar phenomenon Iso Isetta, eventually buying the rights to the brand and producing its own version of the car using a modified version of its motorcycle engine.

Microcars seem to be excellent illustrators of this adage.

Morris at 100 — Celebrating the centenary of William Morris's first car, Paul and Kathy Niblett examine the life of the man and the early history of his company / MX 8372 — The oldest Oxford Bullnose fanatic Robin Batchelor recently drove a 1913 White & Poppe engined car, the earliest known surviving example / Goodwood Festival of Speed — Twenty years on from Lord March's first Festival of Speed, David Venables enjoys the «greatest hits» at the 2013 event / A gaggle of Goggos — Scott Barrett drives a pair of delightful German microcars and discovers their charm and ability far outweigh their tiny dimensions / From Alfa to Nardi — Alfa Romeo historian Simon Moore charts the history of the Silver Ray, from prewar racer to Italo - American dream car in the 1960s / Back on the Road — Michael Ware tells the story of the Riley Densham Imp, a 1930s special that has been sympathetically rebuilt after 40 years off the road

Abingdon's One And A Half — Jonathan Wood recalls the VA the smallest of the three saloons made by MG towards the end of the»30s / Pau: A Popular Revival — The inaugural Grand Prix Historique contained all the ingredients for lasting success reports Douglas Blain / Bellows To Buses — Norman Painting relates how a West Midlands general engineer became a diversified vehicle producer but lost the plot after the First World War / Maudslay's Might - Have - Beens — Concluding Nick Baldwin's account of the early years of the Maudslay Motor Co. / Japanese Microcars — Michael Worthington - Williams recalls some amazing light cars and microcars produced up to the 1950s when Japan was far from the successful motor manufacturing nation it is today / Phantom a La Packard — This month the Editor tries out a Phantom II whose dual cowl bodywork was modelled on a Packard phaeton.

Olé communion: Austerity and the aeronaut — Gabriel Voisin's prescient microcar Reg Winstone uncovers the story of the Biscooter and its inventive creator / Percy Lambert: Going for 110 miles in the hour?

In spite of its goofy appearance and relatively impractical design, it remains one of the best - selling microcars of all time, with over 161,000 units sold.

In Flower power, Giles Chapman remembers the enterprising brothers Neville and Raymond Flower, who gifted the Frisky microcar to the world and came very close to putting Egypt on wheels

It's pretty obvious that Toyota chose its microcar's name to aggravate Smart, but ForTwo owners are the ones who will be really ticked off, because the iQ is a better car in every measure.

So was Renault, as Igor Stuifzand explains / / In Flower power, Giles Chapman remembers the enterprising brothers Neville and Raymond Flower, who gifted the Frisky microcar to the world and came very close to putting Egypt on wheels / / Simon Moore and Alessandro Silva investigate the first major race in Rome, the scene of the maiden victory for a Bugatti Type 3.

For example, three microcars including a 1959 Autobianchi Bianchina ($ 37,400), a 1971 Fiat Jolly tribute car ($ 41,800), and a 1957 BMW Isetta ($ 57,200).

It has entered into the sparsely - populated American microcar segment with bright colors, surprisingly good driving dynamics, and a big smile.

Although it's actually competent from a 1950s microcar perspective, the Isetta simply can't be taken seriously, and that sense of mirth is what makes it so appealing.

Mike Harvey follows the story of the car and its driver / Back On The Road — Michael Ware features more readers» restorations / The Great Barn Mystery — The Editor tracks down the story of the mystery barn which was revealed in The Automobile last month / Three Wheels On Their Wagons — Although a few early cars rolled along on only three wheels, the configuration became mostly the preserve of the economy microcar.

iQ WHAT smart - sized microcar that squeezes four seats into a vehicle barely ten feet long.

Fortunately, Fiat is injecting more power into the microcar for the 2018 model year.

From French esoterica and farming vehicles to Bugatti race cars, from American muscle to microcars and mopeds, from military effluvia to pristine examples of the French, German, and English mainstreams of yesteryear.

Elsewhere, Suzuki's lineup is somewhat whackier, primarily as the brand is a huge player in Japan's kei - jidosha microcar market.

This Transformable Special Series 2 is a rare Italian microcar.

Daimler - owned microcar manufacturer Smart began as the brain - child of Swatch watch founder Nicolas Hayek.

Lot # 703 - The Transformable Special, Series 2 is a rare Italian microcar that was only produced from 1959 to 1961.

This microcar underwent a complete high - quality restoration done to show - quality standards.

For the uninitiated, that means melding a 129 horsepower, high - speed electric motor that drives the front wheels to a 228 - hp, 1.5 - litre turbocharged triple (yes, but three pistons in something that costs just slightly less than 150 large) that powers the rears and feeding both through a combination of 7.1 kilowatt - hours of lithium - ion ensconced in the «transmission tunnel» and a microcar - sized 42 litre gas tank just ahead of the engine.

Smart Fortwo is classified a microcar, meaning it's smaller even than minicars.

It gets better fuel economy than a microcar, but it's bigger and weighs more so we would expect it would be more protective in serious crashes.»

The concept is based on the ForTwo microcar and will be unveiled at the Frankfurt auto show.

While vastly improved in drivability in comparison to its predecessor thanks to a new six - speed dual - clutch automatic, the funky microcar is still cramped inside — at least for those of us on the plus side of six feet — and it's choppy over patched roads.

The Mercedes - backed company is about to unveil an all - new version of its Smart Fortwo microcar that keeps its predecessor's best - loved characteristics — including the all - important 2.69 m overall length — but adds big - car features that even Smart lovers never thought they'd see.

The best - selling BMW of that decade was the Isetta, a petite two - seat «microcar» typically powered by a 12 - or 13 - horsepower engine.

And thanks to a wheelbase of 100.4 inches — relatively long for such a short vehicle — the Mitsubishi i - MiEV rides smoothly, without bobbing fore and aft as some microcars tend to do.

The 2017 Mitsubishi i - MiEV is an all - electric microcar, based on a Japanese - market gasoline - powered version.

In an interview with Rushlane, Bonito Chhabria, Director of DC Design has divulged that the DC Tia microcar will launch in the Indian market within 12

The Smart microcar was an idea hatched from the founders of Swatch watch company, makers of inexpensive, stylish and plastic wristwatches.

And with a move later this year to electric vehicles only, the prospects of Daimler AG's microcar brand are about...

Costs are relatively low for this microcar because its prepainted plastic body panels are dent - resistant, inexpensive, and easy to replace.

It took the Germans nearly three decades to develop their first luxury car, the 501 (followed by the V -8-powered 502), also known as the «Baroque Angel,» but they sold it alongside microcars and economy cars such as the Isetta, 600, and 700 in order to stay afloat due to the financial hardship the company experienced in the late 1950s.

- Rover Group Ltd.'s Mini, its emblematic microcar first designed in 1957, could be revamped to come in a four - door version after 2000.

Toyota also will give a prototype electric version of its iQ microcar a European debut.

All but the microcar segment were represented by at least one vehicle on the list, and the only microcar that is currently sold in the United States is the smart fortwo.

In some countries, they are also used by local Euro NCAP's test on Quadricycles and Microcars is based on a front and side impact at 50 km / h.

Three crash tests, each involving a microcar or minicar into a midsize model from the same manufacturer, show how extra vehicle size and weight enhance occupant protection in collisions.