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Junginger micro-car, 28kg, 2,2PS, 40km-h
« on: February 03, 2012, 05:51:19 PM »
Who knows this contraption?
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Re: grob 2012_02_04 (03)
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2012, 02:40:51 PM »
Looks interesting, but no clue.



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Re: grob 2012_02_04 (03)
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2012, 12:46:36 PM »
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Re: grob 2012_02_04 (03)
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2012, 12:40:02 PM »
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Re: grob 2012_02_04 (03)
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2012, 01:02:57 PM »
I remember reading an article about it a long time ago. It is German from the early Seventies, isn't it?

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Re: grob 2012_02_04 (03)
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2012, 01:12:44 PM »
Right, ca.1970...

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Re: grob 2012_02_04 (03)
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2012, 03:38:28 PM »
Black hole?

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Re: grob 2012_02_04 (03)
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2012, 11:39:12 AM »
Driving into automobilistic nirvana...

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Re: grob 2012_02_04 (03)
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2012, 07:31:43 AM »
In the soviet magazine "Наука и жизнь" ("Science and Life") №1/1972 was a note about this vehicle. Maybe this information will be useful.

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АВТОМОБИЛЬ В БАГАЖНИКЕ
Западноберлинский дизайнер Юрген Юнингер спроектировал и построил микроавтомобиль, который можно, вероятно, считать самым маленьким в мире: весит он всего 28 килограммов. Оснащенный двигателем мощностью 2,2 лошадиной силы, он может развивать довольно приличную для малютки скорость — 40 километров в час. Рычаг, которым Юнингер управляет своим детищем, выполняет одновременно несколько функций: это и рулевое колесо, и тормоз, и акселератор. Микроавтомобиль можно легко разместить в багажнике обычного автомобиля. Предполагают, что через некоторое время начнется серийное производство автомобиля-карлика.

CAR IN THE TRUNK
West-berlin designer Jürgen Yuninger (Juninger or anyway?) designed and built microcar, which can probably be regarded as the smallest in the world: it weighs only 28 kilogram. Equipped with an engine capacity of 2.2 horsepower, he could develop a fairly decent speed - 40 kilometers per hour. The lever that controls the Yuninger his creation performs multiple functions: it is the steering wheel, brake and accelerator. Microcar can easily be placed in the trunk of an ordinary car. Assumed after a while begin mass production of midget car.
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Re: grob 2012_02_04 (03)
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2012, 07:56:26 AM »
Cyrillic writing's all Greek to me.  :lmao:

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Re: grob 2012_02_04 (03)
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2012, 12:27:41 PM »
Very well done, Kytsyk!

It is Jürgen Junginger´s micro "car", indeed.

You´ve beaten all of the professional puzzlers!

This is a very well earned second point.

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Re: Junginger micro-car, 28kg, 2,2PS, 40km-h
« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2012, 06:15:07 AM »
Very well done, Kytsyk!

It is Jürgen Junginger´s micro "car", indeed.

You´ve beaten all of the professional puzzlers!

This is a very well earned second point.

Welcome at autopuzzles.com, my very favourite waste of time  :D

Amazing! Jürgen Junginger was my design professor while I was studying at Essen University. Never heard of this car of him, though we tried to unearth every "Leiche in seinem Keller"*. :D

Very interisting!!!

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Re: Junginger micro-car, 28kg, 2,2PS, 40km-h
« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2012, 07:08:26 AM »
It´s a real pleasure to show you something new... :D

Did he have other automotive projects then?

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Re: Junginger micro-car, 28kg, 2,2PS, 40km-h
« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2012, 09:38:29 AM »
I remember sketches of BMW bikes and interiors, but not vehicles with four wheels