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Goggomobil T600 and T700 - the almost forgotten link in the glass chain

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Created on January 30, 2021

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Bruno von Rotz

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Glas Isar 700 (1962) - auf dem Titelblatt des Verkaufsprospekts

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Goggomobil T600 (1957) - wie 1957 vorgestellt an der IAA in Frankfurt

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Goggomobil T600 (1957) - der Prototyp mit Frontantrieb, wie er an der IAA gezeigt wurde

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Goggomobil T 600 (1957) - vereint Zweckmässigkeit und Eleganz

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Goggomobil T 600 (1957) - Blick in den Motorraum, anlässlich der IAA 1957

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Goggomobil T 600 (1957) - Internationale Automobilausstellung (IAA) in Frankfurt 1957 - Durchsichtszeichnung, links-vorne

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Goggomobil T600 (1957) - der luftgekühlte Zweizylinder-Boxermotor

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Goggomobil T 600 (1958) - der Nachfolger mit Frontmotor - mehr Platz und mehr Kofferraum

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Goggomobil T 600 (1958) - Vorderansicht des Frontmotor-Modelles

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Glas Isar 700 (1961) - in fescher Zweifarbenlackierung

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Goggomobil T 600 (1958) - Eleganz wird zusätzlich durch die Zweifarbenlackierung betont

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Goggomobil T 600 (1958) - beim Fahrtest, gut zu sehen ist die Kühlerabdeckung, die im Winter dafür sorgen sollte, dass der Motor genügend warm werden konnte

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Goggomobil T 600 (1958) - der grosse Bruder des klassischen Goggomobils, mit Frontmotor und mehr Platz

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Goggomobil T 600 (1958) - der Vorzug des grösseren Modelles war der gut nutzbare Kofferraum

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Goggomobil T 600 (1958) - Skizze - Lenkrad und Amaturenbrett

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Goggomobil T 600 (1958) - Skizze zeigt Motorraum und Reserverad

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Goggomobil T 600 (1958) - Skizze zeigt den Boxer-Zweizylinder

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Glas Isar 700 (1962) - der Zweizylinderboxermotor

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Glas Isar 700 (1960) - Boxermotor und vollsynchronisiertes Vierganggetriebe

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Glas Isar 700 (1962) - Vorderradaufhängung mit hydraulischen Stossdämpfern und Gummirückholelementen

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Glas Isar 700 (1962) - aufwändige Vorderradaufhängung

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Goggomobil T 700 - Frontmotor und Hinterradantrieb - Genfer Autosmobilsalon 1959

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Goggomobil T600 - aussergewöhnlich flach stehendes Lenkrad bei diesem deutschen Kleinwagen - Genfer Autosmobilsalon 1959

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Als das kleine Goggomobil nicht mehr genug Auto war, entstanden die grösseren Limousinen T600 und T700

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Goggomobil T 700 (1958) - Werbung 'Goggomobil fahren heisst sparen'

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Glas Isar 600 (1962) - die Limousine mit dem grossen Kofferraum in Einfarbenlackierung

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Glas Isar 600/700 (1963) - ab 1963 mit Einzelsitzen

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Goggomobil Isar S 35 (1959) - ging nie in Serie - trotz hervorragenden Anlagen und hübschem Design

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Glas Isar K600 (1961) - mit Einfarbenlackierung

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Glas Isar K700 (1962) - der Kombi befördert neben dem Fahrer noch weitere 400 kg Nutzlast

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Glas Isar K700 (1962) - Kombiversion mit komplett versenkbarer hinterer Sitzbank (Durchsichtszeichnung)

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Glas Isar K700 (1962) - als Kombi mit umgeklappter Rückbank

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Summary

The "big" Goggomobil was one of the big surprises at the IAA 1957 in Frankfurt. The still young car manufacturer Glas was launching its second coup and the experts applauded. However, it turned out that the new model was presented somewhat prematurely and was also put into series production a little too early - now with rear-wheel drive instead of front-wheel drive. This not only damaged its reputation, but also its market opportunities, which is why the Glas Isar T600/T700 was only built for a good six years. This vehicle report describes the history of this now very rare model and shows it in many historical illustrations and in the sales literature.

This article contains the following chapters

Advance praise
Innovative front-wheel drive
With rear-wheel drive into series production
Mixed feedback
Follow-up
No success for the big one ...
... while the little one lived longer

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Hans Glas had recognized this early on. With increasing prosperity, car buyers would no longer be satisfied with a cabin scooter, even if it was quite full-grown, but would strive for a "real automobile". And so, as a surprise, he and his son Andreas Glas presented a bigger brother to the Goggomobil at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt in September 1957. The fact that Hans Glas had the right instinct for consumer needs was due not least to his not always easy life story. He had been transferred to Canada in 1910 to take up a managerial position at the Massey-Harris Company. He was then surprised by the First World War and relocated to the neutral USA. When his bank collapsed, he lost all his savings and had to start from scratch, first as a simple laborer at the agricultural machinery manufacturer McCormick, then as an employee at the Ford Motor Company and finally as a department manager at the American Bosch company and as a production manager at the Indian Motorcycle Company. Within less than a decade, he not only became familiar with the entire breadth of the vehicle industry and many activities within it, but also built up the capital that allowed him to take over his father's agricultural machinery factory Glas, which had been owned by a third party since 1920 and which he then steadily expanded.

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