You probably have never seen this car, and chances are that you never will. The owner says that this is the only Mikrus MR-300 known to exist in the United States. I spotted it at a microcar show in Racine, WI, in 2008.

Designed to be a low-cost “people’s car”, the Mikrus was built in Poland in the late 1950s. Sporting a 300cc, 2-cylinder, 2-stroke engine mounted in the rear and seating for four, the Mikrus wasn’t particularly fast but is said to have handled fairly well.

Only about 1700 of these little cars were built and it isn’t entirely clear why production was discontinued in 1960, although political pressure from the Soviet Union may have played a role.

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