Well before its launch, the tiny car had become an object of loathing for environmentalists (unfairly it is one of the cleanest vehicles around).
The vision for the tiny car was first dreamed up by Swatch CEO Nicholas Hayek who began developing his concept in the late 1980s to make a small compact car that functioned like the Swatch watch.
Until now, the lonesome three-cylinder on the U.S. market has been in the tiny Smart car.
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The new BMW i3, a tiny electric car, and the BMW i8, a plug-in hybrid, both due in 2013, are the first fruits of that effort.
Now a motorcycle, with three passengers atop, begins to make its way like a giant spider through the tiny space between my car and an articulated lorry.
The car was tiny, Continental-looking, green-colored with a lighter-green leaf stencilled on the door, as distinctively alien in the car park as Hilda had been among the shoppers inside.
But, high-end luxury shuttles only account for a tiny fraction of the car service market.
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At each end of the car was a tiny metal room with a toilet that flushed waste through a trap door.
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Porsche expects the 918 Spyder to emit 70 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometre travelled, which is about the same as the output of a tiny city car.
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It argued that attaching the tiny tracking device to a car's undercarriage was too trivial a violation of property rights to matter, and that no one who drove in public streets could expect his movements to go unmonitored.
The luxury sports car market is tiny, accounting for around 0.1% of global car sales.
The entity came about in 2010 when Mahindra bought Reva, a small electric-car company that over a decade sold less than 5, 000 models of its tiny electric car, the REVAi.
Workers did build a tiny ramp in front of the car to allow its owner to drive away on his or her return.
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But even the tiny Mercedes-built Smart, more fashion statement than car, sells as many as the CityRover.
Thejo: Automatic is a smartphone application and a tiny accessory which connects to any car on the road to make it a smart connected car.
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Joachim Schmidt, global head of sales and marketing for Mercedes, says until batteries get cheaper and lighter, Mercedes will respond to demand for exhaust-free cars (and California clean-car mandates) with small vehicles such as the tiny electric Smart and the compact B-Class, and offer plug-in hybrid versions of its larger models, including the S-class sedan.
The tiny Massachusetts island is compact enough so that visitors do not need a car and most arrive without one, yet it creates the illusion of being much bigger since so much is preserved as protected natural space.
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Honda quickly produced a tiny car driven by a chain, like a motorcycle, called the S-500.
The system is similar for batteries tiny enough for an iPod or big enough for a car.
But two years ago, my friend Cristina Di Benigno invited me to lunch in her village near Corvara, a tiny, little-known ruin of a town in Abruzzo, about an hour by car from the port city of Pescara.
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Samsung's world-class motion clarity lets viewers read the name on the jersey of a player running at top speed, detect tiny details in a rapid-fire video game and capture every bit of the action in the most dynamic car chase.
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