Microcars: Trabant, Ligier, Kewet, Vespa 400, Smart, Smart Fortwo, List of Car Brands, Meadows Frisky, Isetta, Messerschmitt KR200, Smart Roadster, REVAi, Microcar, Velorex, FMR Tg500, Goggomobil, Messerschmitt KR175, Bond Minicar, Peel P50, Aixam

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General Books LLC, Sep 4, 2011 - Transportation - 274 pages
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Trabant, Ligier, Kewet, Vespa 400, Smart, Smart Fortwo, List of car brands, Meadows Frisky, Isetta, Messerschmitt KR200, Smart Roadster, REVAi, Microcar, Velorex, FMR Tg500, Goggomobil, Messerschmitt KR175, Bond Minicar, Peel P50, Aixam, Buddy, Br tsch, BMW 600, List of microcars by country of origin, Myers Motors NmG, Heinkel Kabine, Commuter Cars Tango, Bond 875, Bisc ter, Bond Bug, Fend Flitzer, Peel Trident, Scootacar, Zoe Motors, King Midget, HMV Freeway, Mikrus MR-300, Fuldamobil, Felber Autoroller, Goggomobil Dart, SMZ cycle-car, Electrocar, Opperman, Hackney, Scottish Aviation Scamp, Speed King Auto Racer, Mazda R360, Spatz, Astra, KVS, Rytecraft, Tara Tiny, Rodley, AC Petite, Tourette, Gill, Z ndapp Janus, Airway, AWS Shopper, Lumeneo SMERA, Russon, Triking, Arola, Autoette, M ve, Battery Manufacturing Association, Ardex, Inter Autoscooter, BET 500, Puli, David, Alta A200, Angkor 333, PTV, Peugeot VLV, Peel Manxcar, Kleinschnittger, Br tsch Mopetta, Balaton, Dimitriadis 505, Zagato Zele 1000, Alba Regia, Libelle, Messerschmitt Kabinenroller, Maytag Toy Racer. Excerpt: Smart is an automotive branch of Daimler AG. Smart is a German manufacturer of microcars produced in Hambach, France, and B blingen, Germany. It is marketed as the "smart" in all lower-case, with the Smart brand logo, as of 2010, denoting a letter "c" for "compact" and an arrow for "forward thinking." In the late 1980s, SMH (makers of the Swatch brand of watches) CEO Nicolas Hayek began developing an idea for a new car using the same type of manufacturing strategies and personalization features used to popularize Swatch watches. He believed that the automotive industry had ignored a sector of potential customers who wanted a small and stylish city car. This idea soon became known as the "Swatchmobile." Hayek's private company Hayek Engineering...

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