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Bayer LEV 2000 1965 concept car/hovercraft
« on: August 28, 2010, 01:36:30 PM »
Hmmm?
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Re: grob: wtf
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2010, 05:53:38 PM »
Who´s seen this futurama car before?
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Re: grob: wtf
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2010, 06:04:29 PM »
Some sort of flying car design?
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Re: grob: wtf
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2010, 12:36:37 PM »
As I do only know one further picture that is the lo-res-version colour-version of this one I do not know more than what we all can see.

I think it shows a future vision of this company.

And future in those days often meant: flying.

So - yes I do think it was intended to be a flying car.
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Re: grob: wtf
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2010, 01:10:25 PM »
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Re: grob: wtf
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2010, 02:28:55 PM »
American?
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Re: grob: wtf
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2010, 02:37:10 PM »
Not american.
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Re: grob: wtf
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2010, 08:22:14 AM »
Bayer LEV 2000, sort of a Hoovercraft (hence the round aur intake on the bonnet) with fold-away wheels. It was planned to be guided by magnetic waves.
I found this picture in "l'Automobile" #233 (septembre 1965) in an article about the First International Transport and Traffic Exhibition in Munich, Germany.
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Re: grob: wtf
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2010, 10:59:09 AM »
Very good Dynamike.

This is what I wanted to hear!

The huge german chemical company Bayer has shown this "flying" car concept at the 1965 "Internationale Verkehrsausstellung" at Munich.

I think it was not much more than a mock-up.

Does anybody have more information about it?
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Re: Bayer LEV 2000 1965 concept car/hoovercraft
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2010, 02:32:27 PM »
Are you sure you mean 'hoovercraft' rather than 'hovercraft'?
Or is it really a giant fancy vacuum cleaner?!
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Re: Bayer LEV 2000 1965 concept car/hoovercraft
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2010, 02:54:18 PM »
The word "hovercraft" is mistakenly pronounced as ''hoovercraft" by 99,9% of the Dutch population ;). This is strange because it has quite a different effect than a vacuum cleaner...
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Re: Bayer LEV 2000 1965 concept car/hovercraft
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2010, 03:27:40 PM »
 :bag:

changed...

The funny thing is that in the french text below Dynamike´s photo it is spelled "HORVERCRAFT"   :D
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Re: Bayer LEV 2000 1965 concept car/hovercraft
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2011, 02:33:56 PM »
It seems to have been a Ingenieur Schmidt´s brainchild and it had 4 auxiliary wheels...
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Re: Bayer LEV 2000 1965 concept car/hovercraft
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2011, 02:46:57 PM »
LEV obviously stands for Leverkusen as it was made by Bayer AG which headquarter is located there. (not to be mistaken with Bayern in its capitol Munich it was presented in 1965)
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Re: Bayer LEV 2000 1965 concept car/hovercraft
« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2016, 01:03:37 PM »
Pictures from Klein Jürgen's post in Arunas' Facebook page:
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Re: Bayer LEV 2000 1965 concept car/hovercraft
« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2016, 04:36:06 PM »
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Re: Bayer LEV 2000 1965 concept car/hovercraft
« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2020, 04:06:42 PM »
A side view:
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Re: Bayer LEV 2000 1965 concept car/hovercraft
« Reply #17 on: May 24, 2020, 04:49:25 PM »
Ich bin entzückt...

Wow - it is much bigger than I thought - and it has wheels!

 :applause: :applause:
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