Take your pick: BMW’s isetta or Fiat 500L

Posted on 12-07-2014 at 12:46 pm by MrBrown – 27 Comments”

Suppose, you have a garage 3 metres long and 2 metres wide and you want to necessarily have to be a classic. What is it?

There are damn few classics that you may find schadeloze way in going to get. You’d have a classic bike can buy, but with a nice Mini-sheet is the garage door not to close and the indoor storage of your classic candy is, of course, a requirement.

Two cars that do fit are the BMW’s isetta and the Fiat 500L, which is by 458spideritalia together spotted were in the homeland of the Fiat and also secretly of the BMW.

BMW’s isetta is the smallest BMW ever, dating back to 1955 and has a length of 2,28 meters. It was not BMW, but scootermerk Iso SpA that the car designed and first put on the market. BMW bought later the license to the’s isetta in slightly modified form under its own name to sell. The BMW is characterized by its front door. For the in – and out you have the steering wheel folds. The drive’s isetta is taken care of by a 12 hp engine, strong 1-cylinder with a top of 85 km/h.

Between 1955 and 1962, sold the BMW about 160,000’s isetta’s and the car gradually starts pretty rare to be. BMW was not completely satisfied with the sales figures of the’s isetta, which was mainly due to that other Italian brat. It was the Fiat 500 Nuova in 1957 a spanner in the works of the Germans threw out. The car of Fiat was a lot more practical than the BMW and still very compact and affordable.

The Fiat 500 has a length of 2,97 m and under the hood is a 13.5 hp motor with a top of 85 km/h. Later the 500cc block upgraded to 17 hp. The 500L on the photo did not come until 1968, and not at all like you expect an extra long version. It was a sort of facelift, where the L stands for Lusso. Especially the interior was more luxurious.

Both cars fit fine in ‘our garage’. The BMW is more rare than the Fiat, but in terms of daily use, the 500 is a lot better to do. It is a matter of taste, both cars will be in traffic nekkendraaiers. Don’t expect luxury, even the heating was on this little ones not standard.

The word is yours, what is it? More photos check you autojunk.nl.