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Melkus RS 1000 at Dresden Auto Show 1981.
Melkus RS 1600.
Melkus Formula Junior of 1959Melkus was a marque of single seat racing cars and sport cars founded by the race driver Heinz Melkus in Dresden in East Germany. The company existed between 1959 and 1986. The cars used engines from Wartburgs and much of the other parts came from Wartburgs and Trabants. The racing cars competed in Formula III, Formula Junior and Formula E[disambiguation needed
].The only road going car the company produced was the Melkus RS 1000. It was a sleek sports car powered by a tuned mid-mounted Wartburg 3-cylinder 2-stroke engine. Most of the cars used the 992 cc version, but some of the later cars had the 1200 cc version. It had gullwing doors. 101 cars were made.
The company stopped making cars in 1986. In the early 1990s, Heinz Melkus and his family started running a BMW dealership in Dresden.
In December 2006, Melkus engineering - a German company owned by Peter Melkus, son of Heinz Melkus, announced that it will re-launch the production of Melkus RS 1000[1] sports car. There are far gone plans to launch an updated version of the RS 1000 as well as a new design called the Melkus RS 2000. It will be powered by either an Opel engine or a 150 to 200 hp Volkswagen turbo engine.[2] There is also talk about a GT model with 300 hp.[3]
The new Melkus RS2000 premiered at the Frankfurt International Motor Show 2009.[4]
Models
- Melkus JAP Eigenbau (1954)
- Melkus Formel Junior Baureihe (1959/60)
- Melkus Formel Junior Baureihe (1961/62)
- Melkus Formel Junior Baureihe (1963)
- Melkus Formel 3 Baureihe (1964)
- Melkus SRG MT 77
- Melkus PT 73 Spyder
- Melkus Lada ML89
- Melkus BMW MB90
- Melkus Silberpfeil
- Melkus Zigarre
- Melkus RS 1000
- Melkus RS 2000 (2008)
- Melkus RS 2000 GT (2011)
- Melkus RS 2000 GTS (2011)
References
- ^ Paterson, Tony (2006-12-09). "Communism's 'Ferrari of the East' is back on the road after 27 years". London: The Independent. Archived from the original on 2007-01-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20070108190705/http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2060007.ece. Retrieved 2006-12-09.
- ^ "Melkus RS2000 Takes Shape". Edmunds. http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=123369. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
- ^ Vijayenthiran, Viknesh (2009-03-23). "Melkus RS2000 edges closer to production". Motor Authority. http://www.motorauthority.com/melkus-rs2000-edges-closer-to-production.html. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
- ^ "IAA 2009: Melkus RS2000". GTspirit.Com. 2009-09-17. http://www.gtspirit.com/2009/09/17/iaa-2009-melkus-rs2000/. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
External links
- Melkus - Dresden based BMW and Lotus dealer
- Melkus Motorsport
- Wartburg article with Melkus pictures
Categories:- Motor vehicle manufacturers of Germany
- Sports car manufacturers
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