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Some like it hot - Glass 1204 TS in the (historical) test

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Created on August 6, 1964

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Clauspeter Becker

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Glas 1304 TS (1966) - outwardly hardly distinguishable from the 1204 TS, but with 85 hp even more powerful

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Glass 1204 (1964) - good space (?)

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Glas 1204 TS (1965) - Not just visually top-heavy with a long front overhang

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Glass 1204 TS (1965) - the somewhat boxy front

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Glass 1204 TS (1965) - ran in Switzerland under the additional designation "Dolomite"

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Glas 1204 TS (1965) - This abbreviation turns a well-behaved car into a rake

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Glas 1204 TS (1965) - Spare wheel in the boot instead of the engine compartment

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Glas 1204 TS (1965) - Instrument panel with standard rev counter

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Glas 1204 TS (1965) - pretty, but tightly upholstered seats

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Glass 1204 TS (1965) - narrow rear seat bench

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Glas 1204 TS (1965) - very easy to steer with the accelerator pedal, especially in wet conditions

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Glas 1204 TS (1965) - very easy to steer with the accelerator pedal, especially in wet conditions

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Glas 1204 TS (1964) - the 70 hp engine with side-mounted twin carburetors

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Glass 1204 (1964) - Sectional drawing of the new OHC engine

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Glass 1204 (1963) - front wheel suspension, also used in the same form in the S 1204 and 1004

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Glas 1204 TS (1964) - the engine as a source of joy and noise

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Glas 1204 TS (1964) - the valve train with toothed belt and the special rocker arm guide

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Summary

English sports cars are generally said to be loud and tough. However, the Glas 1204 TS surpassed even the most primitive roadsters in terms of roughness. Those who were prepared to make major compromises in terms of comfort were rewarded with impressive driving performance - at an unrivaled price. This historical test report takes a closer look at the little hot hatch.

This article contains the following chapters

The inherited chassis
Engine with exemplary character
The driving characteristics
You can go even faster
Driving performance
The equipment
Technical data & measured values

Estimated reading time: 19min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Where would we be without Pushkin advertising and motorsport? We would never have realized how much we deserve to be tough guys, and we would have lame cars too. In any case, we would never have had a glass of 1204 TS. It must have been both our fault. I'm not saying this here because I'm trying desperately to be funny. I don't feel funny at all - much more deadly serious. The car is actually like that, and if you look at it closely, even more so. It is quite simply BRUTAL. You can say more about the car with these six letters than with another six printed pages, but the editors demand this of me, so I have to take a closer look at the brutality.

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