Chicago Car Show Celebrates Small, Mini and Micro Cars

The Tres Petite Concours will also exhibit current small cars, including the Smartfortwo and the Mini Cooper, as well as a car of the future, an electric small car called the X-Car. Cars can be viewed around-the-clock from a sneak preview beginng 6 p.m. Friday, July 16 through 4 p.m. Sunday, July 18. Best of all, you can view the cars for free, since they are parked on public streets.

The Tres Petite Concours is sponsored by The LeMay – America’s Car Museum and Vintage Microcar Club and Clean Tools. The event producer has the absolutely perfect name of Teeny Tiny Productions. Visitors will be invited to vote for their favorite car. Voting makes you eligible for a raffle drawing. The prize is a microcar and a driver for 4-6 hours. Sounds like fun. There’s also a best in show award, as there always is in car shows.

Just so you know — The definition of a microcar is a passenger car with a 500cc or smaller engine. Minicars are 501cc to 999cc.

BMW just announced it will manufacture an all-electric city car, the 21st century verison of the Isetta, called Megacity. The BMW plug-in EV Megacity is scheduled to arrive in 2013.