Mbm Vehicles · 1961–1962
MBM Tourismo
The MBM Tourismo was a very low-production (likely only two were built) automobile sold by Peter Monteverdi. Monteverdi's small company MBM (standing for Monteverdi Binningen Motors) mainly focused on competition, but a "few" sports cars were also produced. The car's body was bought from England, where a company called Heron Plastics had developed a fiberglass sports car called the Europa. It had a backbone chassis and coil sprung wishbone front suspension, with a Triumph Herald swing axle at the rear, although it is unknown what may have been different in the MBMs. The engine was a 997 cc Ford Anglia 105E unit, as was usual for the Heron as well. A 1961 MBM Tourismo currently resides in the Swiss Transport Museum in Luzern Switzerland. In 1960 an open two-seat sports car called the MBM Sport meant for competition was shown. The little barchetta had a 1092 cc O.S.C.A. engine with 100 PS (73.5 kW), and was front-engined unlike the Lotus and Elvas with which it was meant to compete. While offered for sale at SFr 22000 (~US$95,000 in 2016), only the one car was built.
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Specifications
- name
- MBM Tourismo
- Manufacturer
- MBM
- Production
- 1961-1962
- Class
- Grand Tourer
- Body style
- 2-door 2-seater coupé
- Layout
- Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout
- Related
- Heron Europa
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Sources
- Wikidata — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15818387CC0 1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBM_TourismoCC BY-SA 4.0 · Text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1295618524 · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MBM_Tourismo_1961_vr.JPGGFDL · Photo: Buch-t · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.