HAMBURGER CARS: The Story of the Wendax and the Staunau

Some say the Germans cannot build a bad car...

Those people are WRONG.

Hamburg, newly independent West Germany in 1950: Most German car producers had not gotten back on their feet yet, factories ended up on either side of the iron curtain... or were in ruins. Two businessmen, one the owner of a rail carriage business and the other a builder of hoists-then ice cream machines- decided to go into the automobile business and beat everyone else to the riches that were bound to follow!

Wendax and Staunau: two of the most hilarious failures of the German automobile industry. Neither of these companies associated with the other and their owners don't appear to have ever met- but they both entered the automobile industry with no experience, hired novice engineers, used the same engines, and had the same results: DISASTER -humiliation in the newspapers and magazines, followed quickly by bankruptcy.
Most have never heard of these two makes, but I dove into German language history books and searched for every morsel of information I could find (which wasn't much!)
I could have made a video about BMW or Mercedes- but they say failure is always more interesting than success!

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