Young Engineers Sportscar

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YES! Holding and holding company mbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
Seat Edermünde , Germany
management Marco Kunz (managing director)
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Young Engineers Sportscar , YES for short ! , is an automobile manufacturer. Founder and managing partner of YES! Participation and ownership company mbH is Marco Kunz. The entrepreneur was the first YES! 3.2 Turbo customer in Germany and after the insolvency of Funke & Will AG acquired Yes! Beteiligungs- undbesitzgesellschaft mbH , based in Edermünde in the Schwalm-Eder district in Hesse .

history

Factory site of Funke & Will AG after the bankruptcy, 2010

The sports car YES! (English for yes! ) arose from a diploma thesis by Herbert Funke and Philipp Will, who studied automotive engineering at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences . With the design student Oliver Schweizer, who designed the outer shape of the YES! designed, a marketable project emerged. In order to obtain the necessary financial resources, the developers approached forty companies in the automotive industry, a large number of which were ready to provide support.

At the 1999 International Motor Show in Frankfurt am Main , the first prototype of the YES! , the Club Sport model . The vehicle concept was a puristic sports car, without a roof, doors and the usual comfort. Because of the low weight and comparatively high engine power achieved by these measures, it was also referred to in press reports as a motorcycle on four wheels. More than 30 vehicles were pre-ordered at the 1999 IAA.

After this fair, Funke & Will AG was founded in Großenhain in 2000. From 2001, in a restored 1930s - hangar at the airfield Großenhain models of YES! individually handcrafted and delivered for its owner. Part of this marketing concept was the possibility that customers could arrive directly by plane.

On February 4, 2009, Funke & Will AG filed for bankruptcy at the Dresden District Court. The entire YES! including the development documents, manufacturing equipment and parts still available to the newly founded Yes! Holding and holding company in Edermünde sold. It offers spare parts and customer service for vehicles that have already been sold and leads the production of the YES! 2 continued in small numbers. Since then the public prosecutor's office has been investigating the two original company founders for extensive subsidy fraud .

In 2010, the YES! Beteiligungs- undbesitzgesellschaft mbH, based in Edermünde in Hesse, created the brand. Since then, under the new management of the YES! Roadster 3.2 Turbo handcrafted.

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To YES! Clubsport 1.8 was followed by the YES! Roadster 1.8 added, with soft top, scissor doors, side windows and heating and the YES! Cup / R , the racing version of the YES! .

In addition to various design awards such as the Good Design Award (2003 and 2007), the Chicago Athenaeum and the Lucky Strike Junior Award (2002) for the extraordinary shape of the YES! In the summer of 2004, the company received the German Entrepreneur Award in the category “climbers”. From the first YES! 200 copies were made. At the Auto Mobil International 2006 in Leipzig, the second generation of the YES! Roadsters presented.

The YES Roadster 3.2 with a larger wheelbase and modified exterior (again from Schweizer Design Consulting) is newly motorized in two power levels. It has a 3.2 liter 187 kW (255 PS) six-cylinder engine, turbo-charged in the higher output level. A safety package with driver and front passenger airbags is also part of the further development.

Models

YES! Cup / R

The YES! was offered in three model variants until 2006:

  • YES! Roadster 1.8
  • YES! Clubsport 1.8
  • YES! Cup / R (only for the racetrack)

Since 2006 the second generation of the YES! came on the market in two engine variants:

  • YES! Roadster 3.2
  • YES! Roadster 3.2 Turbo

The first series of the YES! Cup / R

engine

  • YES 1: The engine of the YES! based on a revised 1.8 liter 20-valve engine with turbocharger from the Volkswagen Corporation and delivers 210 kW (286 hp ) at a maximum of 6300 min -1 , deviating from the standard version of the engine, in different power variants of 110 up to 165 kW (150 to 225 PS) is offered. The approximately 830  kg heavy models with GRP - body speed h in 3.9 seconds to 100 km /.
  • YES 2: The new engine comes from the Volkswagen Group again and was originally installed in the Audi TT or the Golf R32 . The 3.2-liter V6 engine has an output of 187 kW (255 hp) or 261 kW (355 hp) when it is turbocharged.

Data YES! 1

Data YES! 2

YES! Roadster at AMI 2007
Rear view of the roadster

YES! Roadster 3.2

YES! Roadster 3.2 Turbo

Reviews

Web links

Commons : Yes!  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://edammer.de/?site=image-video An image video of the city of Großenhain from 2008 about Funke & Will - on the director's website as a work sample (in English)
  2. ↑ Dresden District Court file number 534 IN 243/09
  3. ↑ Birgit Ulbricht: The YES appeared in Sächsische Zeitung - local edition Grossenhain from September 18, 2010