# Urkel's Car

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urkels-car/45939>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 16, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urkels-car/45939 "2000-12-16T21:03:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![RoboDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbe5ce/32.png) [@RoboDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoboDude)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urkels-car/45939/1 "2000-12-16T21:03:18Z")

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I used to watch the show “Family Matters”, and I remember Steve Urkel driving around in some kind of really crazy looking little car. What kind of car was it? Was it even a real car?

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**Author:** ![diamud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@diamud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diamud)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urkels-car/45939/2 "2000-12-16T21:48:22Z")

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Yes, it is a BMW Isetta, try this link for more information:

[http://www.netten.net/ROADSHOW/isetta.htm](http://www.netten.net/ROADSHOW/isetta.htm)

or

[http://www.cqql.net/bmw.htm](http://www.cqql.net/bmw.htm)

for more pictures and some info. on the car.

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urkels-car/45939/3 "2000-12-17T00:37:12Z")

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It’s very real. A local car stereo installer has a yellow and black Isetta sitting in his lobby.

Death traps, those “cars”…a front-end collision would almost certainly damage that one large door, trapping you inside.