Today, a third photo I’d have posted earlier if I’d realised I had it - and this is an interesting one. The BMW 600 was basically an extended four-seater version of the Isetta. The big front door was retained for the driver and front-seat passenger but the rear seat occupants entered via a single side-door on the right. The missing link between the BMW Isetta and the much more car-like BMW 700 I posted recently. Pic - Classic Motor Show Bremen, 2014.

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Today, a third photo I’d have posted earlier if I’d realised I had it - and this is an interesting one. The BMW 600 was basically an extended four-seater version of the Isetta. The big front door was retained for the driver and front-seat passenger but the rear seat occupants entered via a single side-door on the right. The missing link between the BMW Isetta and the much more car-like BMW 700 I posted recently. Pic - Classic Motor Show Bremen, 2014.

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Yesterday’s Microlino electric bubble car attracted a lot of interest, so I decided to sift through my photos to try and find a pic of the original Isetta which clearly inspired it. This licence-built BMW Isetta lives at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, where I saw it in 2023. UK cars had a single rear wheel, making them three-wheelers, which meant they could be driven on a motorcycle licence.

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Yesterday’s Microlino electric bubble car attracted a lot of interest, so I decided to sift through my photos to try and find a pic of the original Isetta which clearly inspired it. This licence-built BMW Isetta lives at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, where I saw it in 2023. UK cars had a single rear wheel, making them three-wheelers, which meant they could be driven on a motorcycle licence.

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The day before yesterday, I posted a photo of the BMW roundel applied to the base of the rear roof pillar of the 1969 2800 CS E9 coupé (white car). AFAICT this rather pleasing detail was subsequently absent from BMWs but made a reappearance on the X2 small SUV (grey car - seen in a local car park) a few years ago. Nice to see it back. I’ll return to the E9 coupé tomorrow.

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Over the last few days, I’ve explained how BMW’s 1950s range was heavily polarised, consisting of high-end exotics like the 502 on the one hand or basic bubble cars leaning on the company’s motorcycle technology on the other. In 1959, BMW started tentatively to nibble away at the lower end of the vast middle ground in between with the rear (motorcycle) engined 700, seen here at Techno Classica 2013 in open-topped form. Saloon and coupé also available.

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Over the last few days, I’ve explained how BMW’s 1950s range was heavily polarised, consisting of high-end exotics like the 502 on the one hand or basic bubble cars leaning on the company’s motorcycle technology on the other. In 1959, BMW started tentatively to nibble away at the lower end of the vast middle ground in between with the rear (motorcycle) engined 700, seen here at Techno Classica 2013 in open-topped form. Saloon and coupé also available.

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