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The Isetta was one of the most successful microcars produced in the post-World War II years—a time when cheap, short-distance transportation was most needed.
The BMW 300 is a microcar produced by BMW, featuring a characteristic front-opening door and three wheels. It was a modified version of the BMW 250 (Isetta).
Isetta Fever. by Isetta John Wetzel (originally published in MINUTIA vol 6 #2 Spring 1997 by the Microcar & Minicar Club ) As the popularity of the Isetta has grown in the last ...
Milan based refrigerator manufacturer Rennzo Rivolta of Isotherm created the Isetta microcar in 1953. In 1955 he sold the licence to manufacture the Isetta in ...
I had one like this, it was orange, and they are fun to drive, but I'd never consider a freeway drive with one. There's no place for groceries, because you couldn't get in or ...
Isetta 300 and BMW 600 Restoration Site ... These two pictures are of the same car. Also, the person leaning on the nerf bar in the picture on the left and the person in the right ...
The BMW Isetta 300 (1958); Its name meaning 'little Iso,' the Isetta was designed and first manufactured by the same Italian firm that later produced the exotic Iso Rivolta, Iso ...
We would like to honor one of the most important top-sellers of the post-war period: it´s a car that has become the symbol of an entire generation: the BMW Isetta.
1960 BMW Isetta 300 . BMW made a genuine success of the Italian original, but it was not enough to bring lasting fortunes to the company. It was still better for this type of ...
The BMW 300 is a microcar produced by BMW, featuring a characteristic front-opening door and three wheels. It was a modified version of the BMW 250 (Isetta).
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The Isetta was one of the most successful microcars produced in the post-World War II years—a time when cheap, short-distance transportation was most needed. Although the design originated in Italy, it was built in a number of different countries, including Spain, Belgium, France, Brazil, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Because of its egg shape and bubble-like windows, it became known as a bubble car—a name later given to other similar vehicles.

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Daily Telegraph
Lots 18, 19 and 21: An AC Petite, AC Ascedes and a BMW Isetta Photo: DAVID ROSE The auction of the small, curvy cars - which got their nickname from their aircraft-style bubble canopies - is expected ...
Industrial Distribution
But its bread and butter for much of the 1950s was the BMW-Isetta, a tiny bubble car that used a 12-hp single-cylinder engine. Taking its early British connection full circle, BMW now owns Rolls-Royce -- which uses BMW's V-12 engines -- and...
Bangkok Post
Much of this could be seen in BMW's all-new electric city car rumoured to revive the Isetta nameplate. Will Mini get any of these in the future? Although Mini now shares its engine with Peugeots and Citroens, it's never impossible that Mini...
TG Daily
I have one and really love driving it. I believe Fiat is coming out with a newer 500. I read that BMW is planning on a newer Isetta. BMW makes the Mini Cooper. VW is coming out with the Chico. Small is in and large gas guzzling cars are out...
CNN Money
There is an early example of such a vehicle on display in the BMW museum: a bug-shaped two-seater with a single refrigerator-like door that opens from the front, called an Isetta. BMW made more than 160,000 Isettas starting in 1955. For man...
Wired
Above: We found this BMW Isetta 300 parked amongst a passel of Porsches, and absolutely everyone was stopping to check it out. We spotted it a few hours later in downtown Carmel, parked nose-to-the-curb behind a Mercedes-Benz. No one notice...
Globe and Mail
Both Autoexpress in England and the Inside Line website in the United States are reporting that BMW is interested in a smaller Mini, or perhaps even a revival of its tiny Isetta brand. In return, Toyota would reportedly receive rights to th...
Wired
That’s all well and good, but it doesn’t explain what’s up with the name or why the car looks more than a bit like a BMW Isetta or Messerschmitt KR-200. Clearly the overall shape is intended to evoke the future and increase aerodynamic effi...
Monsters and Critics
There has been much speculation that BMW could revive the legendary Isetta three-wheeler microcar from the 1950s and the CI motorcycle as an electric bike. Reithofer refused to comment on the reports. The car maker is currently testing a fl...
Toronto Star
Everything BMW has ever produced, from the Isetta bubble car to modern production and racing cars will be on display. See www.bmw-welt.com (in German only). And another high-end automobile manufacturer, Porsche, will open a new museum outsi...