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Microcar is a term often used for the smallest size of cars, with three or four wheels and typically with an engine smaller than . Specific types of microcars include bubble cars, cycle cars, invacar, quadricycles and voiturettes. Microcars are often covered by separate regulations from normal cars, having relaxed requirements for registration and licensing.

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Contents
  • Predecessors
  • Europe 1940–1970: Microcars
  • Characteristics
  • History
  • Bubble cars
  • Worldwide 1990–present
  • Kei cars
  • Quadricycle legislation
  • {{anchor|Junior}} Junior cars
  • Microcar trucks
  • Microcars by country of origin
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading

Microcar is a term often used for the smallest size of cars, with three or four wheels and typically with an engine smaller than . Specific types of microcars include bubble cars, cycle cars, invacar, quadricycles and voiturettes. Microcars are often covered by separate regulations from normal cars, having relaxed requirements for registration and licensing.

== Predecessors ==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “microcar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.