German Cars 1980s

There are still awesome unique cars to be had from elsewhere in europe beyond germany.

German cars 1980s. 2016 audi r8. Like group b rallying dtm required production based vehicles. A rising german deutsche mark and shrinking u s. When you build the fastest estate car on earth your place in the top 100 german cars of all time is secured.

In terms of vehicle comfort german car makers have long been ahead of the rest of the industry in the number of ways that they pamper car drivers. Sure it s easily the worst ferrari ever but that s like being the worst player on real madrid. Finally pending federal safety regulations. Dollar narrowed slim margins even further making construction of the car contracted to karmann in osnabrück germany cost prohibitive.

Lost cars of the 1980s merkur xr4ti. List of automobile manufacturers of germany jump to navigation jump to search. The german word trabant derived from the middle high german drabant means satellite or companion. The cars are often referred to as trabbi or trabi.

Car makers in other countries often measure the quality of their vehicles by using german cars as their standard for quality. 2006 present pegasus 1995 present ruf automobile 1982 present weineck engineering. Being home to the modern car the german automobile industry is regarded as the most competitive and innovative in the world and has the third highest car production in the world and fourth highest total motor vehicle production. Just a few years ago you could pick up a nice 325i coupe manual 170bhp for well under 1500.

The car s name was inspired by the soviet sputnik satellite. The automotive industry in germany is one of the largest employers in the world with a labor force of over 857 336 2016 working in the industry. You re still up there baby. Unquestionably german design and engineering is a global benchmark.

As popular as rallying racing was in the 1980s so was the german touring car series called dtm. Produced without major changes for nearly 30 years the trabant became the most common automobile in east germany. Cool cars of the era like the mitsubishi. The bmw e30 3 series is a cool solid and seriously reliable german car of the 1980s.

We had the folks at vehicle valuation site black book go through its records and find vehicles from the 1980s and 90s that didn t retain all that. Especially since the merkur brand was an unknown in the united states. It may have looked like an audi 80 avant but the rs2 was part audi part porsche and.