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Car marriage between Neckarsulm and Cairo - NSU Ramses in (historic) test

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Created on May 1, 1961

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Michael Rott

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Whether the NSU Ramses is particularly beautiful or not is debatable. What is undisputedly outstanding, however, is its performance in the desert. That's where it can show its full potential.

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A car factory couldn't be more romantic: The first Egyptian car factory was built against the imposing backdrop of the millennia-old pyramids.

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The Ramses factory was not particularly large at the time, but even then it provided jobs for many skilled workers.

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Back then, manual labor still replaced the assembly line in the Ramses factory. But the starting signal was given and new machines were constantly being added to the production process.

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Caravan routes are for camels. But the Ramses also proved to be up to the difficulties of off-road travel across the desert.

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From the inside, the NSU Ramses looks mostly like the NSU Prince, but the dress still has typical Egyptian features.

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A glance into the trunk also shows which NSU model the Ramses is based on: The NSU Prinz.

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For spoiled "sons of the desert", a two-seater sports car was also being prepared as a second version of the Ramses in addition to a pseudo limousine at the time.

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NSU Ramses (1962) - based on the NSU Prinz

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Summary

It is truly rare for the hobby testers to have to abort a test drive. But this was exactly the case when testing the NSU Ramses. On a 350km round trip through the desert, not only was the car put to the ultimate test, but so were the testers, who this time took their mouths too full. Read this historic vehicle report to find out how the car and testers fared on this unique test drive.

This article contains the following chapters

Promising start-up product from the land of the pharaohs
Massively underestimated labor generation
On the threshold of motorization
Typical hobby - tests under the toughest conditions
Good preparation is the be-all and end-all
Declining motivation and increasing lethargy
A gawky teenager?
Running low on fuel and water
Surrender of the testers

Estimated reading time: 10min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Exclusive report from Egypt: Interesting car marriage between Cairo and Neckarsulm produced the first offspring of a new industry on the Nile. The very first encounter with Ramses, the promising start-up product of a car industry in the land of the pharaohs that is still completely unknown in Europe, began with a surprise. We Europeans, who are spoiled by economics, understand the term car factory to mean a fully automated assembly line production. Like so many terms, we first had to translate this one into Oriental, because the standards here are very different from those at home. There is no shortage of labor here, but there are difficulties to overcome that we in Europe would never have dreamed of. There were certainly no space problems for the construction of the young car factory. The 500-hectare factory site can be extended in any direction, because Allah is big and so is Egypt.

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