Something modern this time.
For one point, please respond and identify this car.
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It looks like a Bary Stimson creation on acid! Any Stimson connection?
Is there a Fiat somewhere?
Quote from: Djetset on March 27, 2012, 03:27:31 AM
It looks like a Bary Stimson creation on acid! Any Stimson connection?
Not as far as I know
Is it Swiss?
No
German?
No
OK, back a step then. European?
Yes
It looks French (or Italian). Let's start with France
Not French ;D
Any Jehle connection?
The logo on the front is one of the very well known ones, like Seat, for example?
Quote from: Paul Jaray on March 28, 2012, 07:24:57 AM
The logo on the front is one of the very well known ones, like Seat, for example?
No. It originally had another logo on the front, from a less-known microcar brand. Now it has a marque of its own.
BTW, I'm not really sure whether it is actually built in Europe, but the design and the marque are European.
Italian?
An IED student design project/study?
No, it is a commercial project
Any connection to SLC?
Is it simply called Microcar?
No, but you are close
It appears to be called the Micro-N 250 (or 260) Roadster. Decals on the car say "by Ginevra Design", and it is distributed by Nuova Nordaffari srl of Brusnengo in northern Italy, a company which seems to specialise in camper vans.
There's another badge on the car, which I only got a glimpse of, but which I think says "Carletti", but I don't know the significance of that.
It's a light quadricycle with a 257-cc 4-stroke engine and automatic transmission, and it can be driven (in Italy, at least) by 16-year-olds with a suitable licence. I don't know much more about it, but here it is in action!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym9ED6PmcDM
A perfect answer brings you another point. :applause:
It seems to have been badged as a Carletti originally, but now it is sold as the Micro-N 250 Roadster. Since it is emphasized on the website that the design is Italian, I would guess it is built in China (or some other Asian country).