The Tg500 congenital several appearance from the KR band on which it was based. Externally, the attenuated body, the cellophane acrylic balloon awning and low attitude were a allotment of the added accessible features.
Tandem seating
Rear appearance of Tg500s
The attenuated body, and agnate low aboveboard area, was accomplished with bike seating, which aswell accustomed the physique to abate like an aircraft fuselage, aural a applied length. The bike basement aswell centralized the accumulation of the car forth the longitudinal arbor which, accumulated with the low centermost of gravity, low weight, and caster adjustment at the vehicle's extremes, gave the Tg500 acceptable administration characteristics. A added accessory advantage of bike basement was that it fabricated an consign adaptation to countries that drive on the larboard unnecessary.
The centermost of force of the car was at the rear seat, which meant that the attendance or absence of a commuter did not change the administration characteristics of the car.2
Bubble canopy
Except for the Sports Roadster model, access to the Tg500 was through a awning aperture hinged on the appropriate ancillary of the vehicle. The aperture included both the windows (windshield, window frames on all but the Roadster models, folding top on Roadster and Kabrio models, and acrylic balloon on added versions) and the anatomy in which it was set, extending from the appropriate ancillary of the monocoque tub to the left. On Sport Roadster models, the awning was anchored and there was neither a top nor any windows at all, alone a tonneau cover.2 The balloon top on the Tg500 was the aforementioned as the one acclimated on the KR200.2
Engine and transmission
Tg500 engine and rear suspension
The Tg500 ran on a 494 cc (30.1 cu in) air-cooled two-cylinder two-stroke engine positioned beyond over the rear wheels. The engine, advised by Fichtel & Sachs, was congenital by FMR.3 The Dynastart starter/generator assemblage was belt driven, and had a fan at anniversary end of the unit, one to air-conditioned anniversary butt of the engine. Unlike the KR175 or the KR200, the Tg500 had a about-face accessory in its transmission, which was allotment of a transaxle unit.2
Controls
The controls of the Tg500 were agnate to those of the KR200 except for the Tg500's individual starting approach for the engine and its H-pattern gearshift with about-face accessory and no abetting lever. A tachometer was offered as an alternative backup for the clock.2
Suspension and brakes
Apart from the use of 4.40 x 10 tires all about and an access in foreground clue from 108 cm (43 in) to 111 cm (44 in), the foreground abeyance and council were the aforementioned as that on the KR200. The rear abeyance was absolutely independent, with accepted joints at both ends of anniversary halfshaft, amid by lower wishbones and braid springs with concentrically army shock absorbers.2
Unlike the three-wheeled Kabinenrollers, which had cable-operated automated brakes, the Tg500 had hydraulic brakes
