AWS shoppers
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 AWS Shopper (1974)
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| Production period: | 1970-1974 |
| Class : | Microcar |
| Body versions : | Combi coupe |
| Engines: |
Otto engine : 0.25 liters (10 kW) |
| Length: | 3070 mm |
| Width: | 1400 mm |
| Height: | 1380 mm |
| Wheelbase : | 1800 mm |
| Empty weight : | 415 kg |
The AWS Shopper was a light motor vehicle that the former Borgward dealer Walter Schätzle presented at the Hanover Fair in 1970 . After a few individual pieces by hand, it was manufactured from 1973 to 1974 by the Walter Schätzle automobile plant in Berlin-Rudow .
history
The production in Berlin used the subsidies of the Berlin funding . The AWS Shopper had the base plate, chassis and engine of the Goggomobil T250. The air-cooled two-cylinder two - stroke engine with 10 kW (13.6 HP) and 22 Nm torque installed transversely in the rear drove the rear wheels via a four-speed manual gearbox .
The body was a load-bearing and consisted of a frame ( space frame ) made of steel square tubing and sleeves of aluminum , which was clad with plastic-coated sheet metal. It could be assembled by hand with a hammer, drill and rivet pliers. Expensive deep drawing presses and painting were not necessary.
The vehicle weighed 415 kg empty, drove a maximum of 75 km / h, had two seats, two side doors and a tailgate reaching far into the roof (which is counted as a door in the body shop, without being a door in the conventional sense). With a wheelbase of 1.8 meters, the vehicle was 3.07 m long, 1.4 m wide and 1.38 m high.
It was only available in the orange / black color combination shown here. The company tried to market the vehicle as a “shopping cart” for families, another target group were holders of the old class 4 driving license (vehicles up to 250 cm³). The processing quality was mediocre, however, and the small number of units drove up the costs - at a price of 5700 DM the AWS was significantly more expensive than a standard VW Beetle . The unusual appearance, the outdated technology and the questionable active and passive safety in modern road traffic made the vehicle look like an anachronistic and overpriced temporary solution on wheels. Potential customers preferred a Fiat 126, which was almost equally expensive . After 1400 AWS shoppers and 300 AWS Piccolos, a total of 1700 copies, production was stopped in July 1974 because the manufacturer went bankrupt.
variants
Versions as open trolleys for industry or small delivery vans with flatbeds remained prototypes .
Pick up
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literature
- Werner Oswald: German Cars 1945–1990. Volume 4, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-02131-5 .
Web links
- Lasse Hinrichs: City car AWS Shopper: The crisis mobile . Spiegel Online, January 13, 2013.
- Hanns-Peter Baron von Thyssen-Bornemissza: Lexicon of forgotten types of cars (accessed November 1, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roger Gloor: All Cars of the 70s. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-613-02440-3 .
- ^ Lasse Hinrichs: City car AWS Shopper: The crisis mobile . Spiegel Online, January 13, 2013.