The term light car is used in Great Britain since the early part of the 20th century for an automobile less than 1.5 litres engine capacity.
The current driving licence category B1 ("Light vehicles and quad bikes") in Great Britain covers motor vehicles with four wheels up to 400 kg unladen, or 550 kg if designed for carrying goods.
[2] The term light car was used in the 1910s and 1920s in the United States to describe a cyclecar that had been improved with conventional automobile components, but was not a classification.
Also in 1912, cars in Europe with engines smaller than 1,100 cc (67 cu in) were classified for motor sport purposes as cyclecars.
[4] In October 1913 the British Temple Press, the publisher of various vehicle magazines, launched a magazine called The Light Car and Cyclecar,[5] later shortened to The Light Car.