city cars
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This Gauge Alone Makes The Classic Mini EV An Instant Winner
Mini is officially getting into the EV conversion racket, but this time, I’m rooting for the electric conversion of these classics because of a cleverly retrofitted gauge. Look, if classic cars must be converted to EVs, there’s a right and wrong way. It sounds like Mini’s new EV conversion team is doing it right, at…
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The Mini Strip Literally Stripped Everything Out Of A Mini Cooper To Build A Sustainable Car
British carmaker Mini and fashion designer Paul Smith teamed up again to make a one-off car called the Mini Strip. The name doesn’t refer to anything bawdy, even though it’s immediately where my mind went. It’s about stripping down in an eco-friendly way by paring design and production all the way back to the bare…
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Shout Out To The Person Who Restored This Tiny Polish Fiat 126p
I remember getting a phone call from the shop that was putting a new engine in my recently blown 1974 Volkswagen Beetle. It wasn’t the guy I’d dealt with before; it was his boss. He couldn’t quite believe I wanted to put this much time, money, and effort into such an undesirable, common car. “I…
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A Humble Car With An Interesting Design You Never Heard Of: The Hafei Lobo
It’s always interesting to see the work well-known auto design houses have done for markets that most of our readers (by no means all, of course) get to see — it’s sort of like when you find out that some big American movie star has done a Japan-only commercial. In this case, the markets are…