Heinkel Kabine

The Heinkel Kabine was a bubble car, a microcar with a steel unit body, designed and built by Heinkel Flugzeugwerke from 1956 to 1958. Access was through an opening front, and unlike some rivals it had a reverse gear; to avoid infringing the Iso Rivolta patent used on the Isetta, its steering wheel did not swing out with the door. The Model 150 used the 174 cc four-stroke single-cylinder engine of the Heinkel Tourist scooter, and from October 1956 the three-wheeled Model 153 and the four-wheeled Model 154 used 204 cc engines, later reduced to 198 cc for insurance purposes. Production passed under licence to the Dundalk Engineering Company in Ireland and then to Trojan Cars in Britain, which built it as the Trojan 200 until 1966, and Los Cedros assembled it in Argentina from 1959 to 1962.