Garage Italia presented the full production range of its new, low-cost city cars that recently went on sale, at the Bologna Motor Show earlier this month, including two premières, the new luxurious model "IperTop" and a two-tone finished "Sports" version.

Technically known as a quadricycle, the Meta is versatile, compact, has excellent handling and has been developed to meet very high safety standards according to Garage Italia who believe that the best of Italian design and engineering has been concentrated into this perky, agile, fun vehicle. The two-seat Meta range have been designed as a very compact city transportation, ideal for the large Italian metropolitan areas. They have compact dimensions for their urban tasks, being 2483mm long, 1382mm wide and 1491mm high, with a wheelbase of 1650mm, and the have 490 litres of luggage space.

"We started selling these cars in October, they are all Italian made, and we are selling just in Italy for the moment," Giulia Hinati from Garage Italia told Italiaspeed at the Bologna Motor Show. She says that the company's annual sales target is currently set at 1,600 units. "We are at the moment selling the cars directly, but are creating a dealer network," adds Giulia, who says the Meta range vehicles have received all round improvements since being shown in pre-production form at last year's motor show.
 

Three different engines are available, electric 15kW, petrol 505cc and diesel 505cc, giving good performance with low consumption circa 3.5 litres per 100km for the diesel and circa 5 litres for the petrol version. The maximum speed varies from 45km/h for 4kW to 85km/h for 85kW. The electric model has adopted an engine that is hermetically sealed for longer duration and lower maintenance. Moreover, for the same power, it is lighter and smaller allowing faster heat dispersion and consequently greater efficiency and autonomy.

The two new Meta premières at the Bologna Motor Show were IperTop, and a two-tone finished version of the Sport version, the latter with colour-coded wheel arches, sill covers and bumper inserts. IperTop meanwhile is a luxurious version of Meta and comes with equipment including a rear mounted camera to assist with parking manoeuvres, a powerful Hi-Fi system and quick-contact opening doors. Across the range new details include a new design of steering wheel.