HWM Cars

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HWM Cars GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding December 2004
resolution December 2012
Seat Safenwil , Switzerland
management
  • Daniel Hagmann
  • Andreas Walther
  • Francis Meier
Branch Automobile manufacturer

HWM Cars GmbH was a Swiss manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Daniel Hagmann, Andreas Walther and Francis Meier founded the company for the production of automobiles in Safenwil in December 2004 with share capital of 20,000 Swiss francs . The brand name was HWM , derived from the names of the three founders. Production began in autumn 2007. The company was dissolved on August 19, 2011 and deleted from the commercial register in December 2012.

vehicles

The only model was the BT 01 . A plastic coupé-shaped body with a targa roof was mounted on a tubular steel frame. For driving the saw V8 engine from the Chevrolet Corvette with 5,700 cc displacement and 345 hp performance. The engine was mounted in the middle of the vehicle. The new price was 200,000 Swiss francs.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Moneyhouse (accessed on February 6, 2016)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .