BMW Isetta
A small bubble car with a door at the front, where the steering wheel swung out with the door.
The Isetta was designed by Iso in Italy, and BMW bought the licence. The cheap car carried BMW through its crisis years in the 1950s and was called the rolling egg in Germany.
Materials: Steel body; single-cylinder motorcycle engine
Manufacture: Made in Munich under licence from the Italian firm Iso.
The door that forms the whole front.
The two front wheels and the closely set rear wheels.