Zato vehicle development

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Zato Gesellschaft für Fahrzeugentwicklung mbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1995
resolution 2003
Seat Niederbreitbach , Germany
management Dirk Kramer
Number of employees 42
Branch Automobile manufacturer
Status: 2001

Zato L 3 S

The Zato Society for vehicle development mbH was a German manufacturer of automobiles . Zato represents Z eitgeist A ccess t o O pportunities.

Company history

Dirk Krämer founded the company in Niederbreitbach in 1995 for the production of automobiles. The first vehicle was presented on July 30, 1996. The brand name was Zato . It is not known when production ended. It was deleted from the commercial register on September 11, 2003. Either six or eight copies were created in total.

vehicles

The first model L 3 was an open sports car. In 1999 the sports model L 3 S added to the range. The monocoque chassis was made of carbon . The engine was mounted as a mid-engine in the middle of the vehicle. For driving a saw diesel engine from Audi with the turbocharger . The four-cylinder engine developed 90 hp from a displacement of 1896 cc and 140 hp in the sports model.

literature

Web links

Commons : Zato vehicle development  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wirtschaftswoche from December 3, 2001 (accessed November 8, 2012)
  2. a b c d Eberhard Kittler: Deutsche Autos, Volume 5, since 1990. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-02052-1 .
  3. a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Zato.
  4. Entries in the commercial register (accessed on November 8, 2012)
  5. Information from a classic car dealer who offered a vehicle in September 2012 (accessed on November 8, 2012)