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Go-Go-Car from the modular system - the AWS Shopper/Piccolo

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Created on June 10, 1970

Text:

Heiner Lotz

Photos:

Bruno von Rotz

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AWS Piccolo (1970) - one of several configuration variants

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AWS Piccolo (1970) - on the cover of 'hobby' magazine

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AWS Piccolo (1970) - simple and practical

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AWS Piccolo (1970) - versatile and lightweight

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AWS Piccolo (1970) - 2.9 meters long and almost all the space for the occupants

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AWS Piccolo (1970) - 320 kg payload and can also be used indoors thanks to extensive exhaust gas cleaning

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AWS Piccolo (1970) - practical tailgate, storage space for a baby carriage

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AWS Shopper (1974) - seen at the Retro Classics Stuttgart 2017

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AWS Shopper (1974) - seen at the Retro Classics Stuttgart 2017

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Summary

In 1970, Walter Schätzle showed the press an innovatively designed compact vehicle that was technically based on the Glas Goggomobil, but broke completely new ground in terms of body construction technology and design. The idea was to create an inexpensive compact car for shopping and city traffic, but delays, quality problems and excessive costs prevented the "guaranteed" success that the magazine 'hobby' predicted at the time. This article gives a carefully edited account of the presentation of the new vehicle at the time and shows the unusual vehicle in archive photographs.

This article contains the following chapters

Conventional technology
Lots of interior space
Breaking with all conventions
Novel choice of materials and construction
Patent pending
Easily replaceable and unpainted body panels
Square on principle
Even cheaper as a kit?
Guaranteed success
Technical data (as of 1970)
Note from the Zwischengas editorial team (as of 2017)

Estimated reading time: 8min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Always committed to the search for the ideal small and city car, hobby has been on a hot track in recent weeks, which led to the small town of Oberbessingen in Upper Hesse. Here, a small city and multi-purpose car has been quietly and secretly assembled, which is certainly capable of setting completely new trends in automobile construction. Walter Schätzle, head of the company AWS (Autoteile Walter Schätzle) and leisure designer, introduced us to his youngest child, probably the smallest car in the world at the moment. Schätzle's mini car became famous at the Hanover Fair. Introduced briefly on television, it was a minor trade fair sensation in no time at all.

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