Assystem is an engineering services consulting company based in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France. It resulted from the merger, in 1995, of ATEM (founded in 1966 and specialised in the organisation of the roll-out industrial plants) and Alphatem (a joint subsidiary with Cogema dedicated to the nuclear sector, founded in 1989). Assystem is currently a member of the CAC Small 90

CAC Small 90

The CAC Small is a stock market index used by the Paris Bourse. It is a small-cap index which represents all main-market French equities not included in the CAC 40, the CAC Next 20 or the CAC Mid 60. Together, these 4 indices make up the CAC All-Tradable...

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Assystem City Car

The Assystem City Car is a four-wheeled prototype designed between Assystem and Sbarro

Sbarro (automobile)

Sbarro is a small Swiss high-performance replica and sports car company founded by Franco Sbarro in 1971.-Models:thumb|Sbarro Espera ESP 9The first Sbarro offered was a replica of the Lola T70, powered by a 5.4-liter Chevrolet V8...

 and first presented at the 2007 Geneva Motor Show. The wheels are in a novel arrangement; two are fixed, one at the center of each side; and two can rotate 180°, each located at the center of the front and rear of the vehicle. This gives the vehicle much more maneuverability than a conventional arrangement, and a turning radius

Turning radius

The turning radius or turning circle of a vehicle is the size of the smallest circular turn that the vehicle is capable of making. The term turning radius is actually a misnomer, since the size of a circle is actually its diameter, not its radius. The less ambiguous term turning circle is preferred...

 of essentially zero. The vehicle also utilizes a large flat screen display, which can cover the windshield, and provide the driver with much more information than simple vision (such as infrared cameras), and as a customizable full-screen heads up display, which can include local traffic data, and visual direction cues.

External links

• Corporate webpage (en)
• Profile on Google Finance.It has other filial as ATENA
• City Car at YouTube
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• City Car at the 2008 Geneva motor show