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...Status Car." For all that interest, NSU's bosses-Director Gerd Stieler von Heydekampf and Deputy Board Chairman Viktor Frankenberger-are counting heavily on their own RO 80, a homely four-door sedan with sloping front and raised rear that looks more like the product of wind tunnels than of style-minded designers. Later this month, RO 80s will start rolling off the assembly line at NSU's Neckarsulm plant near Stuttgart at the rate of 50 a day. They will be priced at $3,537, just below the prestigious Mercedes 250 S model. "The German mentality demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Wankel Wager | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...nine years of postwar carmaking, Von Heydekampf has concentrated on the other end of the scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Wankel Wager | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...Taunus (Ford) outsold the Beetle in Germany. That NSU has survived the crush of the giants at all is a triumph. Its sales grew from $10 million in 1958 to $120 million last year, and almost all profits were poured back into the company. Now, says Von Heydekampf, "If the RO 80 sinks, we sink with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Wankel Wager | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

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