Engineering company for process engineering and mechanical engineering

IVM is the short form of the company Ingenieurleistungsgesellschaft für process engineering and mechanical engineering . IVM is part of the company name of several companies founded by Julius G. Kiss :

• IVM Automotive , former German manufacturer of automobiles
• IVM Engineering AG , engineering service provider in Germany
• IVM International Trading AG , today IEA International Trading AG , a trading company with a focus on Asia-Europe
• IVM Technical Consultants Wien GmbH , engineering service provider in Austria

Company history

In 1968 the IVM GmbH & Co KG was founded in Munich by the entrepreneur Julius Kiss from Salzburg ( Austria ) as the basis of today's (loose) company association . In 1979, IVM Technical Consultants Wien GmbH was founded as an Austrian service provider . In 1997 the trading company IVM International Trading AG was founded in Switzerland .

In 1998 IVM Automotive started producing automobiles. In the summer of 2002 IVM sold the German division of IVM Automotive to the automotive supplier Edscha , who in turn sold the company to Semcon in 2007 . After the sale of the German locations, the remaining German companies and foreign locations (with the exception of Austria) were brought together under the umbrella of the new MVI Group in 2003 , which Arpad Kiss and Elke Kiss , the children of the company founder, took over.

vehicles

In cooperation with Callaway Cars , the C 12 was created based on the Corvette . It was presented at the Geneva Motor Show in spring 1998 and was available as a coupé from autumn 1998 . A roadster followed later. At the IAA in autumn 1999, a coupé with a carbon body was presented that was 20 kg lighter than the normal coupé. All vehicles were powered by a V8 engine with a displacement of 5666 cm³ , which was mounted above the front axle and powered the rear wheels. There was a choice between an engine with 330  hp in connection with an automatic and a more powerful engine with 440 hp in connection with a six-speed manual transmission. The top speed was 304 km / h for the performance-enhanced variant and 306 km / h for vehicles with a carbon body.

literature

• Eberhard Kittler: German cars. Volume 5: Since 1990. Audi, BMW, VW and small series. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-613-02052-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Company section on the IVM-TC Vienna website (accessed on February 3, 2011)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dear little king than great servant (PDF; 945 kB), portrait of Julius G. Kiss, Automobil Industrie magazine , issue 6/2005
3. ↑ Company history on the IEA Trading website (accessed February 3, 2011)
4. ↑ Edscha takes over IVM Automotive ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ATZ online, June 20, 2002 (accessed February 14, 2011) 
5. ↑ Edscha AG sells the vehicle development division to Semcon AB ( Memento from January 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from Milbank RA, March 21, 2007 (accessed on February 15, 2011)
6. ↑ History of the MVI Group , MVI website (accessed on February 19, 2020)
7. ↑ MVI Group with new strategic orientation  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ATZ online, September 19, 2003 (accessed February 14, 2011)