CASALINI
Industry: Automotive
Founded: 1939 Piacenza (Italy)
Founder: CGiovanni Casalini
Products: Cars, motorcycles, mopeds, trucks
Website: www.casalini.eu/it/
Casalini is an Italian company, founded by Giovanni Casalini in 1939, that makes mopeds and microcars. Casalini S.r.l. is the oldest microcar producer in the world. The factory is situated in Piacenza.
The current range of Casalini microcars have a bodies of reinforced fibre glass plastic. The engine is a 635 cc diesel produced by Mitsubishi, with 3.9 kW (5.3 PS).
The factory produced Three-Wheelers and moped bikes up until the late sixties. The first microcar left the factory 1969. The Sulky, which at that time was a three-wheel vehicle, was unusual in its class for having a steel monocoque body. It was mostly made for people without a driving license and had an engine with less than 50 cc.
From 1994, when Italy accepted the European directive 92/61, CASALINI S.r.l. began to produce light quadricycles for sale in Italy as well. The first one of these was the Kore 500. The technical and aesthetic evolution of this vehicle was called Sulkydea (1996), Ydea (2000), Sulkydea LV (2004) and Sulky (2008). In 2010 the M10 was presented, a four-wheel vehicle also available in a sporty "Daytona" version.
Casalini S.r.l. is present in all markets of the European Union.
