Enfield

EICMA concept blends 1938 details with modern, muscular style.

Rebuilt UK EV Enfield beats its old quarter-mile time by more than a second at Santa Pod.

Rebuilt Enfield 8000 aka "Flux Capacitor" shows off its speed in six-minute video.

The Enfield 8000 Electric City Car was a tiny, handbuilt, all-electric product of the oil crises in the seventies. A British enthusiast has turned one into a high-po electric dragster, swapping its 6-kWh motor for one with 1,003 horsepower.

Bell bottoms and oversized collars from the 1970s might strike some as kitschy, but the concept of an urban electric vehicle pioneered by UK-based Enfield during the early part of that decade remains current. With Nissan starting production of its all-electric Leaf in Sunderland in the UK earlier this year, the BBC recounts the brief hi

A UK-based car journalist has bought a 1974 Enfield 8000 battery-electric vehicle and has big? little? big plans to soup up the two-seater with a modern, more powerful electric motor. The car's original electric motor was damaged in a flood, according to writer Jonny Smith's blog.

2010 Royal Enfield G5 Classic - Click above for high-res image gallery