Sentences with phrase «microcars for»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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 PackardMicrocars — 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 Packardmicrocars 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?

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

For example, there is already a market for luxury microcars, and any motor geek will tell you there are bigger cars that can be bought for the price of a MIni or a SmaFor example, there is already a market for luxury microcars, and any motor geek will tell you there are bigger cars that can be bought for the price of a MIni or a Smafor luxury microcars, and any motor geek will tell you there are bigger cars that can be bought for the price of a MIni or a Smafor the price of a MIni or a Smart.