Cars are getting heavier and heavier, but thankfully a few manufacturers continue to buck the trend. Here are the ten lightest cars on sale today.
A garage for special motorcycles and cafe racers
Inspired by cyclecars of the early 1900s, cyclekart racing combines go karting and grassroots ingenuity for nostalgic thrills on a shoestring budget.
Somebody asked me for this, so I spent a little time making a list. I figured more than just the person who asked me might be interested. Here's a list of the parts I used in my cyclekart, building to the "Stevenson Formula" specification as described at:
Explore the Quadvelo pedal-electric velomobile by Eurocircuits, a fusion of car & ebike, featuring a 7075 aluminum frame, and 75 km range.
The legendary 1945 Citroën 2CV often referred to as the umbrella on wheels had a fixed profile convertible bodywork and roll-back sunroof. This world’s first fr
You can't buy a CycleKart and, even if you could, the racers wouldn't let you participate. You have to build your CycleKart. It's one of the many reasons this is a very cool hobby.
If you're looking for the least expensive kit cars, here is a list of five cheap kit cars based on estimated final build cost, with photos and a summary of each.
This is an announcement for the PodRide: a car-like e-bike. From the outside, it looks like a miniature, lightweight car. Inside, you'll find a recumbent bicycle frame with electric power assistance! But would you ride around in something
Nobody's 1940 CycleKart American (SCCK004)
The Schaeffler Bio-Hybrid light electric vehicle offers freedom and agility of a bicycle with the cargo volume and weather protection of a small car.
HPV-QUADRICYCLE FOR TWO: BACKGROUND When I was a boy, I dreamed about my bicycle, but never had one. During my childhood and early youth (fifties and early sixties), bicycles are rare in Belgrade, Serbia, old Yugoslavia - there were just a few around. I lived in center of …
Meet Richard Scaldwell and his stunning 1908 V8 Powered GN JAP Aero. This 100+ year old GN cycle car is powered by
Complete set of information about the amazing NLM 428 velomobile which has no chain but is series hybrid.
Driving home from school today, listening to NPR, I hear talk about the SmartCar coming to the U.S. in January. Which gets me to thinking about small...
Meet Richard Scaldwell and his stunning 1908 V8 Powered GN JAP Aero. This 100+ year old GN cycle car is powered by
Hello guys, I' a new member. My search for type 35 plans led me here, it's an interesting place. I am just finishing of a Toylander jeep for my grandson. It's a 4wd version with a central 24v motor from a mobility scooter driving front and rear diffs, live axle at the back and drive shafts a
View 35 photos of this motorcycle-based vehicle by Yutaka Katayama from the Creative Spirit in Japanese Automaking exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum.
While some people may argue strongly that the best cars in the world are the ones which are fastest, most comfortable, sportiest or the ones which can do any number of logical and provable things. However, people nowadays are so into their material existence that they forget what really makes a certain item great - the passion and true tradition that goes into its manufacturing process, because that is what gives it ‘that special something’ (excuse the cliché), and it is also what makes a car truly great. One of the very few cars which are still built today, yet embody all the principles and the vision of its creator, in an unflustered and pure fashion is the Morgan Three Wheeler - one of the greatest (underrated) motoring icons of the entire automotive history. It was Morgan’s second car, after the 1909 ‘Runabout’, and it was launched two years later, in 1911, and it stayed in production for 42 more years, before the final car rolled off the production line in 1953. Now, some 60-odd years later, the company has brought it back and all the changes they have made have only improved it on the technical side, with its remarkable aesthetics and style remaining refreshingly-intact. They have also retained the vee-twin engine, which now displaces 1.9 liters and makes 100 hp. Coupled with the fact that the car only weighs 495 kg (1090 lbs) and has only one rear wheel, as well as a very sorted chassis and modern running gear (it even has a six-speed gearbox), it epitomizes driving fun, tradition, craftsmanship, passion and soul in a very light and irrefutably-British package. Always faster than they had any right to be, Morgan trikes were trialed, rallied, hill-climbed and raced right from the start of production in 1910. And the men and women who raced these contraptions were among the bravest in an era when on-track courage requirements were as high as the penalties for misadventure were severe. The Morgan pictured - possibly in one of the legendary Prescott Hill Climb's first late-'30s seasons or early in its postwar era - was really little changed, other than being frighteningly faster, from the original. It consists of little more than a few lengths of pipe brazed together and covered in rudimentary tinwork, with a 1,000-cc Matchless V-twin bike engine up front sprouting drainpipe exhausts and driving its single rear wheel by chain. It would have been capable of hitting a truly alarming 100 mph (160 km/h). And in contrast to the modern racing era's five-point harnesses, full-face helmets, fireproof suits and carbon fibre structures, its driver and passenger are wearing motorcycle leathers and "pudding basin crash hats." The driver hasn't even bothered with goggles. No safety harnesses are in evidence, as being thrown out in a crash was considered safer than being strapped in. And using one would have limited the "monkey's" ability to shift his weight to aid cornering. Trikes often ran in the motorcycle sidecar class, which required a passenger.
