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Bigger Bug. Germany's Bavarian Motor Works has put on the market a five-passenger mate to its two-passenger Isetta 300. In addition to the door opening from the car's front, the new Isetta 600 has a rear curbside door and back seat, is 21 in. longer (115 in. overall) than the 300 model. Its air-cooled engine has two cylinders to the 300's one, doubling horsepower to 26, though gasoline consumption of up to 58 m.p.g. is about the same. U.S. price...
...four-seat version of Bavarian Motor Works' two-seater Isetta. The Plexiglas front still opens up to admit the driver and front passenger. The two back passengers enter by a new narrow door in the right rear...
...West Germany's three-wheeled Heinkels and Messerschmitts, which needle through traffic like grown-up scooters, can be parked head-on to the curb in only a 5-ft.-wide space. One of the bestselling of the gnatty new bug cars is Bavarian Motor Works' pyramid-shaped Isetta 300 (price: $1,048 and up), which has moved into more than 2,500 American garages this year. The Isetta has two widely spaced front wheels and two narrowly spaced rear wheels, speeds up to 62 m.p.h. on a 13-h.p. motorcycle engine, can accommodate two passengers (and a child...
...more startling car, Bavarian Motor Works' 12-h.p. Isetta, has front wheels about 4 ft. apart and rear wheels less than 2 ft. apart, does 70 miles per gallon...
...Isetta's slogan, which has helped push production to 100 a day: "Less taxes per year (39 marks) than a city dachshund (60 marks)." Still stranger cars are ready to go on sale. One is the egg-shaped Brütsch, named after Stuttgart Designer Egon Brütsch, which stands barely 3 ft. high, has four forward speeds but no reverse, does 67 miles per gallon. Strangest of all is the Dornier Delta, which looks like an old-fashioned electric toaster on wheels; the front and back sections hinge at the top to form doors. The front seats...