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Ganz had deliberately opted for an open two-seater because it was the cheapest to build. He believed there was a market for a larger, closed, four-seater car, but it would be 30 percent more expensive, which would lose it 90 percent of it potential buyers. Josef Ganz test-driving one of the Swiss Volkswagen prototypes.
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May 9, 2012 · But the VW is not Ganz’s car. Rather than his lightweight fabric or aluminum, often open 2-seater designs with their little rear-mid-mounted engines, the Beetle was an advanced semi-monocoque shell with a robust compact and sophisticated, but outboard, lightweight flat-four engine and innovative torsion bar suspension.
As a student, Josef Ganz became inspired by the idea to build a people’s car, or volkswagen, for the price of a motorcycle. In 1923 he made his first sketches for a small, lightweight, 4-wheeled car with a mid-mounted engine, independent all-round suspension, and a streamlined body.
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Oct 24, 2014 · The Josef Ganz connection dramatically changes this narrative, demonstrating that the fundamental Beetle design came from Ganz' work and ideas, which were published extensively in the magazine he ...
Josef Ganz was born on 1 July 1898 into a Jewish family living in Budapest, then the second-largest city within Austria-Hungary. His mother was Maria Török (1872–1926) from Hungary. His father was Hugo Markus Ganz (1862–1922) from Mainz in Germany who worked as a political and literary writer and journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung.
This charming two-seater with its single-cylinder engine is a Swiss people’s car. The story of its designer however, is more interesting than that of the car itself. German engineer Josef Ganz had advocated ideas about a car for the people since the 1920s.
More than 80 years ago, Jewish engineer Josef Ganz amazed the people of Frankfurt by racing his revolutionary “May Bug” prototype over the city streets and sidewalks. This lightweight, rear-engined car was part of his dream for the German people: a Volkswagen that anyone could afford.
