page_title: Iso (automobile)
section_title: Early years: motorcycles
hierarchical_section_title: Iso (automobile) / History / Early years: motorcycles
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Rovigo, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, motocicletta Iso in mostra statica.
context_page_description: Iso was an Italian automobile and motorcycle maker. The company was predominantly active from the late 1940s through the early 1970s. Iso is known for the iconic Isetta bubble car of the 1950s, and for a number of performance cars in the 1960s and early 1970s.
context_section_description: Initially starting out as an appliance manufacturer, the company was active again after World War II now specialising in manufacturing vehicles. In 1948 it began to build motorcycles, scooters and motocarries (three-wheeled transport scooters/motorcycles). The famous models are the Furetto (1948), 'Isoscooter (1950), 'Isocarro (1951), 'Isomoto (1954), 'Isosport (1953) and 'Iso Diva. The last Iso motorcycle was the Iso 500, introduced 1961.
  Isomotos were known as expensive, but durable and well-built.
  In 1967 Iso Rivolta also built a series of snowmobiles called the 'Iso Neve. The most popular model was the Flying Iso which was built in collaboration with De Tomaso and distributed by them in North America and Canada.
caption: ISOmoto
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