The 175A Berline’s history is shrouded in speculation and mystery, but it supposedly was meant to compete with the Messerschmitt KR175, another microcar built by the infamous WWII German ...

SEASIDE, Calif. -- If you've ever dreamed of owning a cramped, underpowered, plastic car that may have been named after a 1960s American TV show, we know just the ticket. Somehow Steven Mandell of ...

The microcar is a singular little thing—its job ... While Karl Benz was inventing the car and his wife was road-tripping it in 1885, a French inventor named Léon Bollée put his thinking ...

usually French). But because of their make-do origins, microcars are honest and humble, and that's a big part of what makes them so endearing. Some of them have evolved into hot collectibles (What ...

And I lived to tell the tale. ZENN -- Zero Emission, No Noise -- is a Toronto-based company that takes a French Microcar MC-2 city car and stuffs it with six lead acid batteries and a 7.6-hp ...

The Mega Tjaffer—also known as the Mega Club, Mega Cabriolet, or Mega Ranch—was produced from 1992 to '98 by French microcar specialists Aixam. Despite being manufactured in France ...

Mostly left-hand drive, the Vespa microcar was sold throughout Europe ... That 1959 Vespa 400 cost 351,725 French francs or 255 British pounds. Bring a Trailer Unfortunately, not many have ...

They produce a wide variety of automobiles, from microcars to supercars, as well as many other types of vehicles. And the French automotive industry has strong ties and a long association with the ...