Messerschmitt KR200

The Messerschmitt KR200, or Kabinenroller (Cabin Scooter), was a three-wheeled bubble car designed by the aircraft engineer Fritz Fend and produced in the Regensburg factory of the West German aircraft maker Messerschmitt from 1955 until 1964. It replaced the KR175, keeping the same basic frame but with an almost total redesign, and with a claimed output of only 10 PS it still exceeded 90 km/h thanks to its light weight and low drag. Almost 12,000 were built in its first year, the highest annual output of any Kabinenroller, and 30,286 in total. Messerschmitt, allowed to build aircraft again in 1956, sold the Regensburg works to Fend, whose company FMR carried on production and added the KR201 Roadster in 1957. Production ceased in 1964.