Solved: Allemano's № 859 - Electric microcar built by Rudi Augustin (1983)

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Otto Puzzell

#25
October 31, 2012, 01:18:14 PM
Is it a Popular magazine?  ;)
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

Allemano

#26
October 31, 2012, 01:19:02 PM

Otto Puzzell

#27
October 31, 2012, 01:20:57 PM Last Edit: October 31, 2012, 01:24:38 PM by Otto Puzzell
Is Illustrated in the title?
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

Allemano

#28
October 31, 2012, 01:26:51 PM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on October 31, 2012, 01:20:57 PM
Is Illustrated in the title?
No.
It's really VERY famous, around the world.

Wendax

#29
October 31, 2012, 01:31:11 PM
An extremist publication, so to say.  ;D

Otto Puzzell

#30
October 31, 2012, 01:32:49 PM
Guinness Book? World's smallest car (at the time)?
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

Allemano

#31
October 31, 2012, 01:34:12 PM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on October 31, 2012, 01:32:49 PM
Guinness Book? World's smallest car (at the time)?
Yes. For the German edition at least.

Otto Puzzell

#32
October 31, 2012, 01:37:07 PM
>1980?
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

Otto Puzzell

#34
October 31, 2012, 01:41:12 PM
<1990?
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

Otto Puzzell

#36
October 31, 2012, 01:45:51 PM
"W. Fritz, a car dealer, is displaying the smallest car in the world"?
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

Allemano

#37
October 31, 2012, 01:48:55 PM Last Edit: October 31, 2012, 01:52:35 PM by Allemano
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on October 31, 2012, 01:45:51 PM
"W. Fritz, a car dealer, is displaying the smallest car in the world"?
I don't know from where you've got that, but it's not the name I'm after.

We're looking for an electric driven microcar.

Otto Puzzell

#38
October 31, 2012, 01:51:17 PM
I got that from a book (but not the Guinnes Book, to which I don't have access) :D
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

Allemano

#39
October 31, 2012, 01:55:01 PM Last Edit: October 31, 2012, 01:59:30 PM by Allemano
As said before I reckon it's not easy to find. My source reports it's in the Guinness book* of 199_ but I couldn't confirm either.

*to be exact it's a Guinness smallest electric... of the world. If it actually IS featured in the book I don't know.

Otto Puzzell

#40
October 31, 2012, 01:56:02 PM
Ah, so >1990, and not <1990
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

Allemano

#41
October 31, 2012, 01:58:52 PM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on October 31, 2012, 01:56:02 PM
Ah, so >1990, and not <1990
Oh sorry, I misread your post.
Yes, it's from the nineties.

Otto Puzzell

#42
October 31, 2012, 02:04:32 PM
No worries  :)

I expect there is enough here for somebody to find the answer - especially if they have ready access to German-language Guinness Books from the 1990's!  ;D
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

Wendax

#43
April 19, 2015, 12:26:16 PM
I found a magazine cutout from 1988, Rudi Augstein is the wanted man!

Wendax

#44
April 19, 2015, 12:42:52 PM
To answer the remaining questions not only with the German article: he was from Westheim (Rhineland-Palatine) and his car was electric powered.

Allemano

#45
April 23, 2015, 05:11:19 AM Last Edit: April 23, 2015, 05:17:09 AM by Allemano
After 2½ years we finally have a winner! :applause:
I never could confirm if it was entry of the Guiness Book of Records, so it's a relief that we now have another source.

2 more points for Wendax' tally.

(the builder is apparently not the ex-editor of German's most famous political magazine..)

Wendax

#46
April 23, 2015, 03:38:47 PM
Sometimes it helps to clean up the basement.  ;D

Wendax

#47
August 31, 2018, 06:49:16 AM Last Edit: August 31, 2018, 06:51:29 AM by Wendax
The car is for sale right now. The builder's name was Rudi Augustin, not Augstein. The car was built from 1976 to 1983 taking 6500 hours of work. Its official name is RA (Rudi Augustin) Audi X1.

Wendax

#49
June 30, 2022, 11:13:04 AM
It is for sale again, but I doubt that anybody will pay 59,000 € for it.
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