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Isetta, the car Egg

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One of several originalities of the Isetta was that the gateway to your itnerior be ahead. Even today this vehicle is called in Portugal as the "Egg"

In our first article of the category of Cars of the Past, feature a small "large" car. Isetta! The Isetta!

The Isetta was made in the hall of Turin in April 9, 1953 by the Italian Iso Automotoveicoli. he Isetta was in a car at low cost, the reality turned to the economy of post-war Italian.

Thus the Isetta had an engine to 4 times, the air chilled and consumed an average of 4 litres per 100Km. The deposit had a capacity for 13 litres.

One of several originalities of the Isetta was that the gateway to your itnerior be ahead. Even today this vehicle is called in Portugal as the "Egg" because their aerodynamic characteristics resemble an egg.

He had the ability to reach a maximum speed of 80km / h, for the time being an excellent performance. Yet despite these gifts to their lives in Italy was very short and its manufacturer closed its manufacturing ended up in 1956.

In 1955, the Iso granted the rights to produce the Isetta for the Brazilian company Farm Equipment Romi, and the Bavarian manufacturer BMW for the production of the BMW Isetta-in Germany, whose company adapted moto engine of a 243cc engine fitted to the vehicle. The Isetta was also produced in Spain, France and England. Among the many countries, the Isetta stopped being manufactured in 1965.

The gross weight of the Isetta was 350Kg, had 1380 mm wide and 2285 mm in length. Box speed with 4 marches ahead 1 march from astern.

Several of the factors of success were linked to the aerodynamics and was therefore not surprising designed by aeronautical engineer Ermenegildo Preti and his colleague Pierluigi Ragg, and applied in this vehicle aircraft concepts.

In March 1954 comes to the Port of Lisbon, coming from Italy and the first ISETTAS was front page news of the Diario de Lisboa of January 16.
30 units were imported to Portugal according to information from the importer AUTOSIL. All came with the arrival in grey been painted in groups of six in different colors to the idea of being diversified.

As news of the Diario de Lisboa seals are mainly as the smallest car ever manufactured in Italy, with 236 horsepower, cc3, developing 9.5 horses, reaching a maximum speed of 85 kilometres per hour, with a consumption of 3 lt / 100,

The price for the Portuguese market was 20,250 escudos, or anything like currently 101 euros.

In Italy the Isetta not bore the strong pressure of competition with Fiat to inject market 400,000 units of Fiat 500 thus have a value lower than the actual Isetta.

In 1955 the BMW Isetta initiates the production of 300 has introduced small variations compared with the original model and its success took the BMW of a possible bankruptcy.

To give you an idea the level of production at Iso (Italy) has approximately 1,000 Isettas, the Isetta (Brazil) has approximately 3,000, the Velam (France) produced about 5,000 cars, the Isetta of Great Britain produced about 30,000 cars , The BMW has built more than 135,000 Isettas.
Of the cars made by BMW, about 8,500 were exported to the United States is estimated that 1,000 survivors.

To get an idea of current value of that vehicle, you can find a sell price from € 5000 (in poor condition) to € 15,000, but be able to say that anyone who still holds an Isetta is not interested in sell - it. Even the German Police!