MW small car

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Minimobil-Wagen Fries GmbH
MW Kleinwagen GmbH

logo
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1982
resolution 1994
Seat Wielenbach , Germany
management Adalbert W. Fries
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

MW Cityboy from 1984

The MW small cars GmbH , previously Minimobil cars Fries GmbH , was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Adalbert W. Fries founded the company Minimobil-Wagen Fries GmbH in Wielenbach in 1982 and began manufacturing automobiles. The brand name was MW . In 1984 the name was changed to MW Kleinwagen GmbH . Production ended in 1988. A total of over 1000 vehicles were built. On April 6, 1994 the company was dissolved.

vehicles

The company manufactured four-wheeled mini cars. The first model was the city boy . A two-stroke engine mounted in the rear with a displacement of 50 cm³ and 3.2 hp enabled a top speed of 25 km / h . The vehicle was 212 cm long. The new price was originally supposed to be DM 6,850, but was then set at DM 9,000. From 1984 a built-in engine from Fichtel & Sachs with 50 cm³ displacement and 4 hp was used. In 1985 the open Sunnyboy followed with an electric motor for 9740 DM. The range was given as 50 to 120 km.

A vehicle is in the Ziegenhagen Auto and Motorcycle Museum in Witzenhausen - Ziegenhagen . Another is part of the PS memory collection .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Cityboy.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1089. (English)

Web links

Commons : MW Small Cars  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Cityboy.
  2. ^ A b c d George Nick Georgano (editor-in-chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1089. (English)
  3. ↑ www.moneyhouse.de (accessed September 30, 2017)