Isetta NEWS
Earlier this year, I mentioned in passing that I saw a magazine article about the tiny Isetta car from the '50s and '60s. I was curious if anyone remembered any ...
The Microlino looks to put an emphasis on 'micro' while reviving the classic BMW Isetta aesthetic.
The BMW Isetta is a microcar that opens from the front. The Isetta is one of the most popular microcars to collect and has a large following. The car seats two ...
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Garfield Auto *Service* Center performs the usual oil changes, brake *service* and engine repairs that most garages offer.
As electric cars begin to spread into the lineups of automakers big and small, another wave of retro cars has materialized. Volkswagen is bringing back the ...
Despite an impressive amount of innovation in the electric vehicle industry, it's not every day that a new electric vehicle is debuted with such a successful ...
To mark Children's Day, author Kimberlie Birks picks out eight of the most innovative designs for kids.
this is a 1956 BMW isetta 300 — a rare, egg-shaped cruiser with rounded, bubble-like windows. a sensation when first issued, the entire front end of the isetta is ...
Microlino, the maker of scooters and kickboards is ready to launch an electric microcar in Europe. Run by two Swiss brothers, the company unveiled its ...
Oliver and Merlin Ouboter have more than 7200 orders for their Microlino, a modern version of the BMW Isetta, which swaps the old single-cylinder petrol engine ...
BMW Isetta is a strange car from the 1950s and '60s. It has a quirky egg shape and minimalistic interior, but the most recognizable feature is the single.
The Isetta was an Italian designed microcar that was licensed to other manufacturers, most notably BMW. You may also remember it as TV-character Steve ...
The BMW Isetta is one of the cutest cars ever made, with its front-opening door and teeny-tiny dimensions. Thankfully, it looks no less cute when it does adorable ...
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The original Iso Grifo A3 Competizione lineup was only ten cars deep, featuring rivited aluminum bodywork and modified small-block Chevy power. It was Giotto ...
The extra small electric car Microlino has completed homologation, making the Swiss EV street legal in all European countries. Market entry will have to wait a ...
Back in 1958, when this publication was just getting started, seriously price-conscious car shoppers went for the BMW Isetta bubble car. The Isetta boasted -- if ...
Think Isetta, and you think BMW. It may be a far cry from the ultimate driving machines on which the Bavarian brand built its reputation, but in the minds of many ...
I went to a car museum not long ago while I was on vacation, because I have serious problems managing my work/life balance. But while I was at Autoworld I ...
The Pick of the Day is the four-seater version of the BMW Isetta microcar, still with the full-width door up front but with stretched length and an extra door.
Microlino, a small Swiss firm, has created a modern interpretation of the BMW Isetta bubble car, set to go on sale in 2019.
German sports car manufacturer Artega has taken over all rights for the production of the Swiss electric city car Microlino from Tazzari of Italy. The latter wants to ...
Go to Germany and more than likely the most popular police cars you'll spot are Volkswagen Passat wagons and the like. Nothing special, right? Of course not.
The Isetta (whether sold by Iso Rivolta or BMW) is without a doubt the quintessential bubble car, with a cult following around the world. Buying one is not easy ...
Micro Mobility Systems Ltd, a company run by Swiss brothers Oliver and Merlin Ouboter and their father Wim, first revealed their electric microcar concept at the ...
The Isetta was an important car for BMW, which reached out to Italian company Iso to build a version of its weird little bubble car under license starting in 1955.
Barry Power moved from Maryland to San Francisco in 1974 at the age of 20, where he studied and practiced architecture and graphic design for the next 30 ...
Without question, the most exciting category of modern cars, for the money, has to be China's sort-of-legal Low Speed Electric Vehicle segment. These cars ...
The original Isetta, which later became linked to the BMW brand, was designed in Italy in typical Italian fashion for the time. It's tiny, but perhaps its most ...
What happens when you combine big and brash with small and quiet: a 1958 BMW Isetta 300 LHD hot rod. This clash of worlds is available in our classifieds, ...
In a world dominated by everyday cars, standing out from the crowd couldn't be easier than buying this converted BMW Isetta pickup truck.
A number of Chinese automakers have come under fire over the years for copying the designs of the latest foreign cars. The early efforts have ranged from ...
The Microlino, the modern-day version of the BMW Isetta, has been approved as street legal by the European Union and will debut in 2019.
Chinese automakers are still mining the designs of other automakers when it comes to producing new vehicles. It's a practice that is surprisingly common, with ...
A pair of cars gathering dust in Stuart and Jill Esler's garage have long been a special reminder of their late son Graham. Now after 35 years, the Timaru couple, ...
The BMW Isetta is easily one of the quirkiest cars to ever come from Bavarian. Originally built by the Italian company, ISO, the BMW version of the Isetta.
Here are 25 cars from different classes with non-standard, unusual doors.
Chinese companies have a track record for copying other automakers. Porsches, Hondas, and even tires often have knockoff alter egos in the country. The latest ...
For the first time this season, the Petaluma boys basketball team closed the deal Thursday night, upsetting Windsor's Jaguars, 51-47, on the first night of ...
With the one race stripe, slanted front and Thunderbirds-esque model number down the side, it's like the Smart ForTwo was transplanted into the Jetsons-era.
You may soon see these unmistakable little electric runabouts flitting around European cities. The flat-out-adorable Microlino seen here is a modern riff on ...
Chinese automakers routinely copy designs from other mainstream brands. This BMW Isetta copycat is just the latest example.
In the first month of the year, Europeans got a taste of a BMW Isetta revival of sorts, after a little car named Microlino was presented by a Swiss company no one ...
The classic BMW Isetta has been reimagined as an electric bubble car for 2018. Named the Microlino, the city car is powered by a 15kW motor and has a top ...
We're all about strange-but-cool pickup transformations here, but this 1957 BMW 600 on Bring a Trailer that's been turned into a pickup truck may have gone too ...
China's crazy low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) market is famous for its many copy-cat cars. A brand new example is the Eagle EG6330K, inspired by the BMW ...
Tom Ensign is right up front about it: “I like things that are unusual.”
The tiny Italian car is now available in Europe. Years ago we extolled the virtue of tiny cars, and called for a new Slow Car movement. I argued that if we all drove ...
I'm not sure what you're doing or how your day has gone, but I'm pretty sure whatever's going on will be made better by just looking at this ad for this ...
Micro Mobility debuted its Europe-only Microlino electric Isetta tribute at Geneva.
If you're the self-conscious type, a BMW Isetta 300 might not be the best personal transportation choice because it is, in essence, a motorized fishbowl.
You would think that bmw would feel a bit embarassed at having such a humble means of transportation as part of its history but that has never been (...)
Patent or not, China is coming for retro Euro designs.
Well here's something we thought we'd never see; a custom BMW Isetta that's been converted into a pickup truck. The unique vehicle was recently sold for a ...
One of the highlights of FIVA's annual General Assembly, held this year in Gibraltar, was the presentation of the FIVA Guide for responsible use of historic ...
I could never convince my mother to get me a BMW in high school. She had a BMW in high school, I would argue. But hers had a top speed of around 55 mph, ...
A Swiss scooter company redesigned the funky Isetta as a 21st-century urban dwelling EV.
The ultimate city car just got city approved. The ultra-compact Microlino car from Micro, the Swiss mobility company behind the ultra popular Micro Kickboard ...
The first production car in the world to achieve a fuel consumption of 3 liters / 100 km, the BMW Isetta, will make a comeback this year, as it will be revived by the ...
BMW, being German, keeps a historical archive. Luckily for me, it's searchable, so you can go look up your favorite Z3 brochure or whatever. I decided to see ...
Although it's not remotely sporty, the Isetta remains one of the most recognizable cars ever built by BMW. Chinese auto-maker Eagle recently revived the Isetta ...
This could solve so many problems, and do most of what everyone needs in a car.
The oft forgotten BMW Isetta is one of the strangest, quirkiest and most interesting cars in the history of the Bavarian brand. BMW bought the license and.
Could an autonomous electric BMW Isetta be the best-seller of the future the Germans haven't thought of just yet?
Isetta, BMW's iconic bubble car penned in 1952 by Ermenegildo Preti and Pierluigi Raggi for Renzo Rivolta, has been reborn as an electric car. At the time ...
If you think about it, cars have been designed for a very specific primary use. That is, to take anyone and possibly everyone from point A to point B at any given ...
We've all seen optimistic "project cars" listed for sale online–worthless run-down husks whose owners still believe there's value hidden somewhere between the ...
A pair of cars that were gathering dust in Stuart and Jill Esler's garage and have long been a special reminder of their late son Graham, have sold for more than ...
With its motorcycle engine, the Isetta was nothing more than basic Euro transportation that could easily kill its inhabitants when crashing into a sign post. In all of ...
Swiss company Microlino is planning to get production of an all-electric quadricycle inspired by the BMW Isetta 'Bubble Car' to start in late 2017.
The first question comes from a fan who wants to know about the BMW Isetta Concept that's been circulating. Q:Greetings guys! It's Mike again! I need to know if ...
Oliver and Merlin Outboter, from Switzerland, have created the Microlino bubble car (pictured). It boasts a 20-horsepower motor copied from a small forklift and ...
In this installment of Bizarre Car of the Week, we take a look at the funky Bavarian microcar BMW Isetta!
Swiss company Micro Mobility Systems has revealed a reimagined take on the iconic BMW Isetta 'bubble car': the Microlino EV.Beginning life in the 1950s, the ...
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BMW Isetta reborns as all-electric Microlino thanks to Swiss company Micro Mobility Systems.
The big engine in a small car combination was arguably perfected by the Shelby Cobra 427; this Corvair-engined BMW Isetta takes a slightly different approach.
Opening a can of soup usually doesn't lead to a dinnertime discussion of classic cars.
Miami Vice or Magnum, P.I.? Dukes of Hazzard or Starsky & Hutch? Choose wisely.
On a warm Sunday in November I set off on a mission to find a hidden treasure, the Brighton Greenway. As I arrive I spot Elspeth Broady, co-founder of Friends ...
Dateline: July 1997: Lavinia Gorse-Flint, 18, from Wakefield, at Thornes Park Historic Vehicles Rally, Wakefield, on July 18, in her 1959 BMW Isetta bubble car, ...
Monroe — decked out in a fez and waving the American and Iowa flags, many people around Monroe may have noticed a peculiar-looking, red bubble speeding ...
Obscure cars fascinate me, which may be why I so much like Corey Lewis' Rare Rides series on unusual and limited edition vehicles. Unfortunately, when ...
The Little Car Shows in Pacific Grove, California, is Monterey Car Week's most enjoyable and accessible show for those think small.
I'm someone who knows a lot about certain kinds of weird cars. That's not bragging, it's just what I love. Occasionally, though, I come across some bit of ...
Thirteen horsepower didn't sound like a whole lot before climbing behind the wheel of BMW's classic Isetta micro car and a half-hour behind the wheel on the ...
A cute, little BMW Isetta Police Car was the darling this year at the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. A crowd favorite, the green-painted Isetta.
A 1950's BMW Isetta microcar will be a star exhibit at the Concours South Africa in August 2017. Check out this amazing design by acclaimed SA artist Esther ...
Micro Mobility will be bringing back to life the iconic, 1950s-era Isetta. An updated design keeps signature features with the addition of modern amenities like ...
The BMW badge is seen on the bonnet of the 1963 BMW Isetta 300. The care maker is holding training sessions for vendors on filling out customs forms as part ...
as quirky as the streets it is destined to drive along, the microlino – a small, electric city car first shown at the 2016 geneva motor show – has passed its last tests ...
Microlino electric bubble car bears a remarkable resemblance to the original made by Iso Rivolta in Italy, and later by BMW.
Over sixty years ago, BMW bought a then rights tons tiny little Italian car called the Isetta. BMW i3 has many similarities.
Duane Saunders, owner of Saunders Classics in Eden Prairie, MN, owned a BMW Isetta nearly 50 years ago when he was in the US Army.
Micro Mobility Systems AG unveiled the latest variant of electric vehicles that was inspired by the Italian Isetta 'bubble car'. Microlino uses a 15-kW electric motor ...
Everyone remembers watching the iconic (if frequently annoying) character of Steve Urkel on the sitcom Family Matters. One aspect associated with the ...
Of Steve Urkel fame, the Isetta has to be one of the most recognizable cars in history. I see them at car shows and though I am floored at the complete lack of ...
Originally shown in the March 1977 issue of HOT ROD Magazine, this Corvair-Powered BMW “Corsetta” Isetta is a good excuse for burning your wallet.
Earlier this month, Turn 10 Community Manager Brian Ekberg shared a hint about the upcoming Forza Motorsport 6 car pack: I'd love to spill the beans on each ...
Imagine going to work in a classic BMW that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, and doesn't look like anything you associate with the Bavarian brand. Yes, we're ...
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