Messerschmitt KR200 NEWS
A MOTORHEAD has spent £23000 on a rare car made out of Second World War plane materials.
The name 'Messerschmitt' is synonymous with the Bf 109 fighter aircraft of the Second World War, the revolutionary German adversary to Britain's Supermarine ...
This rare Messerschmitt KR 200 Roadster is one of the last of its kind built. The company behind it once made fighter planes during World War Two.
Here are 25 cars from different classes with non-standard, unusual doors.
In 1952, German aircraft engineer Fritz Fend presented a design for a Kabinenroller, or Cabin Scooter, to the Messerschmitt aircraft corporation, which had been ...
What's the smallest vehicle in the world? The Ford KA or original Mini might spring to mind but there are many more little vehicles that are much smaller than ...
If you know the name Messerschmitt, the image that may jump to mind is of a screaming World War II aircraft engaged in a vicious dogfight. But after the war, the ...
Always one of the most popular bubbles, the 'Schmitt is still hot property... Designed by Fritz Fend, the fabled aircraft producer, Messerschmitt made the ...
So I'm gunning through Weybridge in a Messerschmitt – and thinking how Fritz would love to be in the cockpit, mowing down half of Surrey.
Often the growth of green cars comes in fits and starts, and new ideas are rushed to market regularly before they're ready. Visionaries with dreams of changing ...
At first glance, the Messerschmitt KR200 might not seem like the most practical vehicle. Its Lilliputian size and Jetsons proportions hardly make you think it's the ...
A beautiful summer Saturday with no rain in the forecast was perfect for a German invasion! And that's exactly what happened on July 14 at the Oley ...
Our list features cars that you wouldn't expect The Beatles, Metallica, and Van Halen to own.
The Munich museum honours some of the best cars from Germany & beyond.
Fancy owning your own Messerschmitt? It's not the fighter plane that was once the backbone of the German Air Force but a microcar produced by the famous ...
Cars are tougher than most people realise. They have to be. A car sold in Australia could be buried in snow in Perisher in midwinter, raced across the Nullarbor ...
The Santa Maria Elks hosted its 24th annual car show Saturday in the lodge parking lot on North Bradley Road to raise funds for the Elks National Foundation.
"You may have a pink cadillac, but don't you be nobody's fool,” Elvis sang on Baby, Let's Play House. He did, and he wasn't. The King amassed a collection of ...
I saw this on the Innovative, Banned, and Unique Racing Cars Facebook page, and it caught my attention like an unnoticed hand on a groin: a Messerschmitt ...
Today is a glorious day because today I learned of the existence of the FMR Tiger, the fastest and coolest car in the Messerschmitt family, and I feel like I am a ...
On this list, we have rounded up a list of 18 of the weirdest cars of all time.
Elvis Presley famously bought (and gave away) Cadillacs, lots of them. One of the first cars he bought after his first success with Sun Records was a 1955 Caddy ...
We take a look through the quirks of automotive history, highlighting some of the most curious and revolutionary vehicles ever created.
WHEN German aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt was released from prison in 1950, after serving time for using slave labour in his factories during World War ...
With three wheels and four tires, the new GT3 concept from T3 Motion is already an automotive oddity. So why'd they have to make it look like a post-war bubble ...
The day is close when we see cars fly past our windows but where we envision them to be all sleek for, let's face it, aerodynamics; there is an automotive design ...
Conservatively valued at £40 million, Rodger Dudding's collection of cars and motorbikes is truly eclectic.
The Jesada Technik Museum is one massive shed, like something you would find in the outback and some of the cars inside it are looking worse for wear.
Attending a classic motoring event of the magnitude of Australia's Motorclassica is a delight of serendipitous automotive discovery.
From the tiny car era in Europe to the big SUV trends in the United States, here is a look at how our preferences for transpiration have changed over the years.
One thing that must be said about three- wheelers and bubble cars alike is that their designs were not hampered by an over reliance on conventional thinking.
Auction preview and information about the RM Auctions Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum sale, to be held February 15-16, 2013 in Madison, Georgia.
We get behind the wheel (or handlebars) of some unusual vehicles in Nashville.
We travel to the Lane Motor Museum to drive some of the tiniest cars on four—and three—wheels the world has ever produced.
Though blessed with scale-model cuteness — the Depression-era roadster looked like a dodge-'em car that somehow escaped from Coney Island — the public ...
As car collectors go, Tim Majors is humble, even aloof about his arsenal of machines. “It's just a hobby that kind of took off,” he says with a shrug.
Terrafugia Transition The great thing about cars is that they come in all shapes and sizes. You can have a tiny Smart Fortwo hatchback or a massive Ford Super ...
Microcars, the Lilliputian "bubble cars" produced throughout Europe after World War II, are making a comeback as automakers produce more fuel-efficient ...
This 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280SEL was personally owned by Elvis Presley. Soon, it could be yours.
I think I've expressed before how much I love finding cars I've never heard of before. Chasing that joy, however, is a bit like being a junkie — getting the feeling ...
Home to more than 500 vehicular oddities, the Jesada Technik Museum, in rural Thailand, is a quirky tribute to transportation.Text and pictures by Mark Sharp.
Some men go fishing when they retire. Some play golf. When Wayne Gould sold his steel bar manufacturing company and retired, he opened a car museum.
Toyota has announced that the first public trials of its deeply odd i-Road will begin today. A serious statement of intent from the manufacturer, which is testing to ...
Every year, the Toyota Museum has their festival, which is simply incredible. This is the event in photos.
NEWPORT, R.I. — Car enthusiasts now have their pick of destinations to get their fix while visiting Newport, with two car museums featuring classic and rare cars ...
Avid petrol heads often pride themselves on recognizing virtually any production car, and spotting them is usually an ongoing process in their mind (we speak ...
There were a lot more three-wheelers than the Reliant Robin - Autocar pays its respects to a lost world.
A new book entitled Rock Stars Cars details the vehicles of some of the most revered musicians in rock, rap and pop history - take a look at some of its highlights.
Since the early days of the automobile, cars have been predominantly powered by engines with an even number of cylinders. From the earliest four cylinders to ...
The South Korean government is considering banning from the roads any BMW vehicle that has not been subject to a recall safety check after more than 30 ...
Review Sir Alec Issigonis' Mini may, perhaps, be the most famous of British small cars, and the Fiat 500 one of the most well known continental ones, but before ...
Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.
Although we're more "connected" than ever, car clubs are sometimes struggling to keep up with the times.
It's one thing to customize your mass-produced ride for which there are thousands of parts available. It's quite another to breathe life into someone else's insanity ...
Is there anything else to be written about the Battle of Britain, which took place 70 years ago in the skies above southern England? Just a lifetime ago, Britain's ...
News - Date: 04 September 2014. Written by: Anton van Zyl / Viewed: 935. “We don't stop for elephants,” remarked a visitor to the Kruger National Park last week ...
We sifted through Barrett-Jackson's entire 2017 Scottsdale docket and picked six oddball cars from the upcoming Arizona sale.
German auto giant BMW has announced it plans to recall nearly 12000 cars after it admitted the vehicles had the wrong emissions software installed.
The Citroën 2CV is one of the most recognizable cars ever made. The Doniselli Duomo is likewise a classic in the world of cargo tricycles. Designer Luca Agnelli ...
Speed, at its root, is a simple equation; maximum power with minimum weight. The venerable V8 engine was an expression of the first element, the nearly ...
Known to attract antique, custom and racing bikes, the Owls Head Transportation Museum's annual Vintage Motorcycle Festival and Antique Aeroplane Show ...
They might have been the butt of a few jokes in the past, but it's the owners of bubble cars who are laughing now - with big prices being commanded for.
Former Volkswagen (VW) CEO Martin Winterkorn could lose the personal fortune he accumulated throughout his tenure at the German automaker, reported the ...
Minnesota's "Back to the 50's" car show draws more than 12000 rods, customs, restored vehicles and survivor cars in a celebration of the golden age of hot rod ...
If the Veloschmitt KR E-250 looks oddly familiar, you might have spent a little too much time in post-war Germany. Designers Achim Adlfinger and Fred ...
Auction results from the RM Auctions Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum sale, held February 15-16, 2013 in Madison, Georgia, resulting in $9.1 million in sales.
Ant Anstead presents, as car hunter Paul Darvill is after a 1995 Audi Quattro Super Touring racing car for the London auction.
NEWPORT, R.I. — Car enthusiasts now have their pick of destinations to get their fix while visiting Newport, with two car museums featuring classic and rare cars ...
In-development electric car questions current business practices and the logic of city mobility.
Located next to Volkswagen's Wolfsburg factory, Autostadt is one of Germany's top tourist attractions – and home to plenty of classic cars.
In our penultimate article about 50 landmarks of automotive engineering and styling that you should try and drive before your licence expires, Erin Baker ...
I always knew the Riding Into History concours d'elegance charity event that happens each May at the World Golf Hall of Fame near St. Augustine, Florida, was ...
German carmaker Opel is still losing money six months on from its takeover by France's PSA Group. The new owner's first priority is to return Open to profitability.
If you put three years of your sweat and savings into a project, any project, you'd expect a certain sense of pride upon its completion. This Chevy Citation cut into ...
No matter how our society develops and how long the years go on, some ideas of the future will never change. Case in point: we are never giving up on jetpacks ...
This tricked out stretch Mini Cooper S has 6 passenger seats, 4 doors, 6 wheels and a Jacuzzi for relaxing on those long drives. This tricked out stretch Mini ...
In the 1930s, British sports-car maker MG made exactly 33 of the K3 open-top race car. If you want to buy one now, there are more than 100 to choose from.
Steering wheels are either on the left-hand side in most countries, or the right-hand side in other countries. Why not in the middle?
The penultimate car to wear the Wolseley badge is redolent of old-English charm.
If you want a cheap runaround, how about a Rolls-Royce? No, dear reader, I haven't been at the baronial drinks cabinet in the back while my chauffeur conveys ...
From the front it looks like a classic 1960s Vespa. But a closer inspection reveals the Z-Scooter by Bel & Bel Studio.
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 ...
Salon Prive: exclusive offer for Telegraph readers. The most exclusive, and beautiful, concours d'elegance in Britain, and one of a handful of likeminded events ...
Report on the RM Auctions Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum 2013 sale from Auction Editor Rick Carey, including results and auction details.
From China to Nigeria, these custom cars, motorcycles, and bikes will make your head spin.
On November 7, 1957, the first "Trabi" rolled off the line. Thousands of them crossed from East to West Germany in 1989, two years before its production was ...
This weekend, Volkswagen handed over the keys to the first XL1 hybrid during an event held at the Transparent Factory in Dresden, Germany, where the fuel ...
Philip K. Dick's The Man In The High Castle has been a masterpiece of alternative history for decades. So when Amazon announced they were going to make a ...
RM Auctions will auction the Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum during a two-day sale, February 15–16, 2013 in Madison, Georgia.
Values are soaring for classic microcars - we visit a unique museum dedicated to them to see why they were ahead of their time.
CHOLMONDELEY Power and Speed 2016 has kicked off in style bringing together an eclectic mix of supercars old and new.A brand new McLaren 675 LT, ...
If you drove through Winter Park late Sunday afternoon, you might have found yourself stopped behind a 1930s sedan at a traffic light. Or maybe you passed a ...
The Network showed a selection of the most bizarre machines. Since the release of the first production vehicles the automotive world has evolved, perhaps ...
All of these were amazing - shame we couldn't ever buy one.
From Nazi project to public status symbol, and from East to West - a new museum exhibition highlights the automobile's place in German society. Here's a look ...
It looks like the future car industry is oriented towards reinventing the early 1930's automobiles, as concepts like Audis's Urban Concept or the Toyota i-Road are ...
Learning the awful truth about a notable automotive film star can be a deeply traumatising experience. It's a process that usually starts in early childhood, when ...
Automotive designer Raymond Loewy had an acronym to evaluate his designs: “Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable.” The Elio doesn't come out that great on either ...
Lenny Shiller, who owns 57 classic cars and trucks, prefers cars that are not “what everybody else has.”
With the EV craze now sweeping the world, and alternative fuels being touted as the solutions to a better future, we tend to forget that petrol and diesel are still ...
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