A two-seat electric car that leans into corners like a motorcycle. French startup AEMOTION built a microcar just 79 cm wide with four wheels and an enclosed cabin, and the whole body tilts through turns.
Video: Interesting Engineering
#microcar#electricvehicle
Tonight I’m at the old Bristol Cars showroom in Kensington for the launch of a very different sort of machine : the Italian-made Microlino electric bubble car @MicrolinoWorld#microcar
The Zündapp Janus was a quirky #microcar from West Germany. This model is liveried for the 1958 Liege-Brescia-Liege (LBL) rally.
Impressively, there were three of them in the LBL we entered 50 years later in 2008.
The car also features in 'Cars 2' as Professor Zündapp.
Sometimes the images in car brochures give a wildly inaccurate depiction of the likely buyer. Full marks to Microcar (number 1 constructor of this type of French vehicle which needed no licence) for showing some believable- looking owners of its 1988 Spid. #carbrochure#Microcar
Improbably, this morsel of cheese is known as a Baldi Frog, made in Italy in 1975. Powered by a 123cc single-cylinder engine, only 300 were ever made. You might recognise the rear side window - it’s an upside down Fiat 500 one. Anyway this Frog is for sale in Finland #microcar
We do like an obscure #Polish 🇵🇱 #1950s#MicroCar This is the 1958 WFM #Fafik ("Puppy") of which only 3 were made Produced by a #motorcycle company it had a 148cc engine