New BMW Isetta Under Development

Where is the front door? Butterfly door maybe?KATALIN

Had an original Izetta, front door, motor cycle engine and all. Loved it…what is this thing. Come on, BMW, you can do better.

drove a neemer all my life and realise something is changing since al gore came of the mountain

please BMW make this car as soon as possible and let it perform like the mini electric i saw on you tube
I will be the first to buy it and are already placing my solar panels and Home-energy.com windturbine on my roof.

Oh why can’t they make it more faithful to the original? It’s a poor pastiche which is the shame as the original had so much charm. The Fiat 500 is a really good update on a classic. This isn’t.

Don’t hold back BMW, make something really nich and quirky!

and last but not least.. an Eco-friendly one please!!!!

If I could have ANY car in the world it would be the isseta bubble car, not this. This is more like a cheap modern version of an old Victorian building without the lovely details. Why can’t they have a ‘black London cab’ approach to its design? ok, make it bigger so it can pass safety regulations, I wouldn’t mind being able to plug in my i-pod to listen to some music while driving it, but keep as much of the character as possible! Don’t try to be too clever when designing its look, we already love the original one! a car like this has a nostalgic element to it, and there is nothing wrong with that!, don’t kill that! there are enough small modern cars around.

I am concerned that bmw cars has forgotten balanced performance and has had to get into bigger engines to drive their now heavy cars.

Instead of the 12 hp m/c motor how about the 162 hp of of the k12s for the power plant with an 8 to 10 gal. fuel tank and performace suspension. let’s go rally!!

It is a neat little design. It would compete with the Smart Fortwo http://www.smartusa.com and the new Fiat 500 http://www.fiat500.com .

I think Cousin IT had a messerschmitt KR200?

Steve Erkel from Family Matters drove a nice BMW Isetta. I wonder what has happened to it?

Didn’t Cousin IT drive one of them? wait… I think that was a Fokker. Well, this is ugly as a Fokker…

This is like the Microsoft answer to the Apple iPod.

Oh man, somebody beat me to the Erkle joke! lol

I’ve got mad love for the existing Isetta, but if it’s much bigger and loses the front door, I don’t know how much it deserves to wear the same nameplate. One other option, however, would be for them to retain the original 3 wheel design (I know some had 4 but still…) and make it closer to the original in size… that way they’d get out of the safety regs. Not that BMW would ever go that route, but it would be more interesting if they did!

looks like a mutant vw beetle… a mutant that should have been squashed at birth.

Does it come with a free Steve Erkle Doll too

WEIRD.