Bieber Cabriolet

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Bieber Cabriolet GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding around 1970
resolution around 1999
Seat Borken , Germany
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Beaver Maplex
Beaver Maplex
Beaver Maplex
Bieber Maplex (rear view)
Maplex lettering

Bieber Cabriolet GmbH , previously Buggy-Center Bieber KG , was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company buggy Center Bieber KG was headquartered first at the Veilchenstraße 27 in Wuppertal . Automobile production began around 1970. The brand name was Bieber . From 1990 the company was Bieber Cabriolet GmbH and the location was Bahnhofstrasse 20 in Borken . The field of activity was now the conversion of closed vehicles into convertibles . From mid-1991 the company was located at Landwehr 62 in Borken. In 1995, sedans were converted into station wagons . The last entry in the car catalogs was in the 1999 model year .

vehicles

Initially, buggies were on offer . The first model was the dingo . Maplex , Optimist and Speedster followed later . There was also the Condor , an open vehicle in the style of the 1930s . The basis of the vehicles was the chassis of the VW Beetle , which was shortened for some models. An air-cooled four - cylinder boxer engine provided the drive .

The vehicle models that were converted into convertibles included the VW Beetle, Golf , Scirocco and Polo , Opel Kadett D and Calibra , Ford Fiesta and Porsche 924 and 944 . The combination kits called Vario-Top were offered in the model years 1996 and 1997 and fit the Seat Toledo and Volvo 440 . The new price was between 4,000 and 4,500 DM.

  • VW Scirocco I.

  • VW Scirocco II

  • Ford Fiesta from 1982

literature

  • Klaus Freund (editor-in-chief): Auto catalog 1979. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1978.
  • Klaus Freund (editor-in-chief): Auto catalog 1980. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1979.
  • Klaus Freund (editor-in-chief): Auto catalog 1981. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1980.
  • Klaus Freund (editor-in-chief): Auto catalog 1982. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1981.
  • Rudolf Heitz (managing editor): Auto catalog 1983. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1982.
  • Rudolf Heitz (editor-in-chief): Auto catalog 1991. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1990.
  • Rudolf Heitz (editor-in-chief): Auto catalog 1992. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1991.
  • Tobias Aichele (Deputy Editor-in-Chief): Auto Catalog 1993. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1992.
  • Bernd Katzenstein (editor-in-chief): Auto catalog 1994. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1993.
  • Bernd Ostmann (Editor-in-Chief): Auto Catalog 1996. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1995.
  • Bernd Ostmann (Editor-in-Chief): Auto Katalog 1997. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1996.
  • Bernd Ostmann (editor-in-chief): Auto catalog 1998. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1997.
  • Bernd Ostmann (Editor-in-Chief): Auto Katalog 1999. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1998.
  • Hans Peter Weiss, Roland Weiser: Replica & Cabrio catalog, 1991 edition. Max Verlag, Denkendorf 1991.
  • Hans Peter Weiss, Roland Weiser: Replica & Cabrio Catalog, 1992/93 edition. Max Verlag, Denkendorf 1992.

Web links

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