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In the early fifties, many new cars from which many interesting design elements had. One of these cars was the small car , " Passat ", which created in 1952 in the then press landscape sensation.
A Wilhelm Fuhrmeister, his sign "editor", described the new German small cars as follows:
"The well-known Krefeld engineer Kurt Faust recently appeared with a completely redesigned small cars to the public, which in professional circles attracted special attention. The centerpiece of the design is a shift, step-and clutch-less mechanical transmission with differential effect which automatically adapts each pitch with the only correct reduction.
This technically known, simple and reliable design, which has already been tested 20 years, was used by the designer for the first time three years ago and for the operation of the small vehicle reworked and automated. This gearbox is completely foolproof, since it is only affected by the accelerator pedal and the road grade and especially the return on the mountain continuously automatically carries out the stalling of the engine due to the centrifugal coupling completely impossible, and thus leads to greater road safety. The car will be built in two versions, with a 600 cc four-stroke and a 250 cc two-stroke engine. The body is the same for both types: steel front, from front door to the back edge only light metal.
In the car with 1400 mm Seat width three people sitting side by side, the middle seat is moved back 50 cm and between the front seats, the leg room. The underlying ample luggage space can be used for child seats. Order to avoid the resulting from the rear position of the entire drive block uneven weight distribution, the rear suspension on the extreme end of the chassis has been articulated. It consists of front and Stahltorsionsfedern rotary rubber block, so conscious of dissimilar suspension elements. All swing joints of the car were mounted on rubber blocks and are maintenance free.
A surprisingly quiet street location has been achieved by using the full car length as the base suspension. The vehicles will be built in intermediate types to 360 cc, 400 cc and 500 cc and will later this year in a small series of 50 pieces a month to go, the relevant negotiations are to completion. "
The specifications were then listen up, the faster the trade winds ought to reach 90 km / h while consuming just 4.5 to 5 liters of petrol per 100 km. Price as DM 3,600 was targeted, while the smallest version should be sold for DM 2,750. As a result, the designer obviously Kurt Faust was covered with many inquiries and orders, so that you already tried a plot and production.
But, as so often, and this resourceful automakers the money went out too early, except the prototype is not a car have been completed. After all, the name celebrated in the form of a Volkswagen in the seventies revival and also vehicles with three seats in a row later built again.
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