Minicars

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Minicars Inc. was an American automobile manufacturer. The brand name was Minicars .

description

The company was founded in Goleta , California in 1969 .

The first minicars was a two-door coupe with three seats, the total length of which was 2743 mm. The small car had a number of luxury attributes, such as automatic transmission and air conditioning . Despite its small external dimensions, the footwell was very generous at 1016 mm. The car was powered by an air-cooled six-cylinder engine with a displacement of 2687 cm³.

Later followed the model RSV , also called RSV Eagle II , which remained a prototype .

Production ended in 1980.

There was a connection to Pacific Coachworks from the same town.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Minicars.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1041. (English)
  • John Gunnell: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975. Krause Publications, Iola 2002, ISBN 0-87349-461-X .