That was cool seeing one of those.
Every time I hear of small cars or 3 wheelers, I think of this Beemer:
One door on the front. Saw these when I was a kid in Germany.
The
Isetta is an Italian-designed
microcar built under license in a number of different countries, including Argentina,
[1] Spain,
[2] Belgium,
[3] France,
[4] Brazil,
[5] Germany,
[6] and the United Kingdom.
[7] Because of its
egg shape and
bubble-like windows, it became known as a
bubble car, a name also given to other similar vehicles.
[8]
In 1955, the
BMW Isetta became the world's first mass-production car to achieve a
fuel consumption of 3 L/100 km (94 mpg‑imp; 78 mpg‑US).
[a] It was the top-selling single-cylinder car in the world, with 161,728 units sold.
[9]
BTW Made a trip to a funeral, yesterday, in our Rav4 says it got 39.1 MPG on the trip.
Initially manufactured by the Italian firm
Iso SpA, the name
Isetta is the Italian
diminutive form of
Iso, meaning "little Iso".
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