Rudolf Thurner, Body Shop & Sports Cars

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Rudolf Thurner, Body Shop & Sports Cars

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resolution 1974
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Bernbeuren , Germany
management Rudolf Thurner
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Thurner RS

Rudolf Thurner, Karosseriebau & Sportswagen was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The insurance salesman Rudolf Thurner († 2008) founded the company in Bernbeuren . In 1968 he produced a prototype and presented it to NSU . NSU then gave him the clearance to name the car after his name and supplied him with complete floor assemblies. In 1969 he began producing automobiles in the buildings of an old spinning mill. The brand name was Thurner . In 1974 production ended because the oil crisis made production costs much more expensive and Thurner's chief financial officer was killed in a car accident. The company went bankrupt . A total of 121 vehicles were built.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. The Thurner RS was an NSU-based sports car . Special features were the body made of GRP and the wing doors . The price was between DM 13,500 and DM 15,600.

literature

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Thurner, Karosseriebau & Sportwagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X . (English)
  2. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Thurner.
  3. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)