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More power, temperament and fun - DAF 55 (in the historical driving report)

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Created on February 15, 1968

Text:

Heinz Kranz

Photos:

Harald Linden (Wikipedia)

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Daf 55 (1968) - Transparency drawing

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Daf 55 (1968) - Front design

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Daf 55 (1968) - now with water cooling

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Daf 55 (1968) - Interior

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Daf 55 (1968) - Driver's workplace

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Daf 55 (1968) - Interior

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Daf 55 (1968) - Interior details

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Daf 55 (1968) - Transparency drawing

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Daf 55 (1968) - the engine comes from Renault

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Daf 55 (1968) - Engine

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Daf 55 (1968) - new front axle

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Daf 55 (1968) - Chassis

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Daf 55 (1968) - Variomatic

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Daf 55 (1969) - in the museum - body lifted off the chassis

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Daf 33 (1967) - still based on the well-known Daffodil

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DAF 55 (1968) - nobody knows anything concrete about it at the show - Geneva Motor Show 1968

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Summary

A tried and tested car was given a new look in 1967. Because the Renault engine needed water cooling, the DAF 55 was given a radiator grille as an adaptation of the design created by Giovanni Michelotti. And because the brakes came from Germany, the DAF could go down in history as a genuine European car. Heinz Kranz reported on how it drove in a detailed driving report for the magazine 'hobby' in 1968, which is reproduced in this report.

This article contains the following chapters

A new radiator grille as a distinguishing feature
Engine from Renault
Proven Variomatic
New front suspension
Interior: Good middle class
Better than Renault 8?
Over 130 km/h fast
Almost a middle class car
Wohlfeil
Our verdict
Technical data and measured values

Estimated reading time: 6min

Preview (beginning of the article)

In spite of the wintry, gloomy weather, I would have liked to drive a few kilometers further from Eindhoven to The Hague to ask Holland's vital Foreign Minister Luns what he would call an entity in which Italy drew the outer form, Holland provided the design, Germany effectively brakes and France drives forward with power? Holland's Foreign Minister, who is most strongly in favor of England's accession to the EEC, would surely have thought me a poor lunatic on hearing the last point before I had the opportunity to say that this was not a political but an excitingly good technical subject. More precisely, the new DAF 55, whose bodywork was designed by the Italian Michelotti, which was designed and is manufactured in Holland, is equipped with ATE disc and drum brakes and is powered by a Renault 1100 engine. In short: a European car from Holland that embodies the good aspects of European cooperation.

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