In this video, we will tell you the story of the Iso Isetta small car, which saved the BMW company from bankruptcy. We will tell you why its door opens like a refrigerator and how such a small bubble saved more than one life by ferrying people over the Berlin Wall.
Author of the idea/screenplay and narrator: Yulia Lobodiuchenko
Production/Direction: Yuriy Dzedzinskiy
Channel identity: Arina Yaskevich
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Time codes:
00:00 Introduction about the channel
1:31 Introduction about Isetta
2:18 Iso Rivolta: how a refrigerator became a car
5:15 Iso Isetta
7:16 Isetta at the Mille Miglia race
8:08 Iso Carro
9:22 License sale to the Germans
11:23 BMW Isetta 250
12:21 BMW Isetta 300 and the Berlin Wall
13:53 BMW Isetta 600
15:57 France: Velam Isetta
17:21 Isetta in Brazil and Argentina
18:09 Britain: Heinkel Kabine and Trojan 200
19:26 Microlino
21:01 Conclusions and thanks