Certainly has not been unique in the market in its heyday but there are definitely not many left now... So the answer I am looking for is the identification of the turquoise car on the right.
Another automotive quiz
Curious how long it will take to identify this one Certainly has not been unique in the market in its heyday but there are definitely not many left now... So the answer I am looking for is the identification of the turquoise car on the right....
Borgward Isabella
The trim and the wheels make it look like a Borgward, a car brand from Bremen. Rafael
Bingo!
Correct I have to say I would not have recognised it had I not seen the name on the front bumper How did you know?
Borgward
Dear KMII, Borgward cars were sold in Venezuela at the beggining of the sixties with great success, My father used to won the sports coupe version and it was a sleek piece. It is possible to find some examples in our roads albeit often in barely road wort...
Time Flies
Dear Bill, thanks for noticing my longevity at Watchprosite. The pleasant discovery of this forum long time ago , starting with ThePurist178 along with the positive influence of Dr. Mao in cahoots with the pleasure of sharing this passion with a great gro...
That would be lovely!
If you ever come to Austria or its vicinity, do let me know - would be a pleasure
That's something I did not know at all!
Fascinating how companies used to make their international expansion decisions. Thanks for sharing!
You beat me to it. Borgward - my neighbor had (the only) one in San Diego
Not a big seller in the USA. But then he had a DKW too. Cheers, Cazalea
Someone in Huntington Beach had a Mexican Borgward . . .
. . . back in the day. I recall more than a few Renault Dauphines and Hillman Minxes, too. Porsche Speedsters? Saw 'em all the time. MGTD's? Every day. No more; the classics are either in junkyards, museums, or Jay Leno's garage.
The advantage of an earlier birth
You got to enjoy those beauties when they were relatively affordable and plentiful
I'd really like...
...to know how the tooling ended up in Mexico after Borgward went belly-up. Who helped assemble it and get the enterprise running. Interesting bits of Auto history. Like the tale that the Brazil Beetle tooling came from Australia after that operation was ...
Mexican Borgward factory
Dear BDLJ, greetings from Caracas. a Mexican self made industrialist from Monterrey purchased the Borgward assets from the creditors ( a Landesbank) in the early 60's and put them to work along his other automotive companies, among them auto components, b...
That's a fascinating story!
As is automotive international expansion as a topic more generally - so often driven by anything else but strategy Thanks a lot for this interesting insight!
I kind of counted on you guessing it :)
Did not know that it would be so close to home, though.
