First folding car

The Hiriko Fold is a 2.634-m-long (8-ft 7-in) electric car with a folding chassis that shortens to 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in). The four-wheeled, two-seater car originated in the research laboratories of the Massachussets Institute of Technology (USA) in the early 2000s and was developed by a Spanish enterprise consortium Denokinn, who unveiled the first fully working prototype at the global launch on 24 January 2012. The Hiriko (which means "Urban" in the Basque language) entered production in March 2013 and is scheduled to reach the market in 2014. When folded and parked perpendicular to the kerb, three Hirikos can occupy a space designed for one parallel-parked four-door sedan.

The Hiriko started life as the MIT Car, then later the CityCar, conceived by MIT's William J. Mitchell and the Smart Cities Research Group. The production version of the car was launched at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. A 20-unit pilot programme is scheduled to start in 2014 in Vitoria Gasteiz near Bilbao, Spain, and the car is due to go on sale later that year for €12,500 (£10,660; $16,130) excluding battery.