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15 years and not a bit calmer (an Zwischengas picture story)

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A photo story by Daniel Reinhard, published on November 20, 2025

15 Jahre wird Zwischengas am 23. November 2025, ein guter Grund zurückzuschauen. Diese Bildergeschichte aus der Feder des Zwischengas-Hoffotografen wirft einen Blick auf Erfolge, aber auch Missgeschicke der bisherigen Zwischengas-Geschichte.

The year was 2010, when three "young" men didn't know what they were doing.

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They started out with a somewhat absurd idea for a new "startup" and ...

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... just a few months later, the first version of a new website went online.

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Sebastian Vettel became F1 world champion for the first time and ...

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... Bruno von Rotz was the first editor-in-chief of www.zwischengas.com.

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I, Daniel Reinhard, lay down in the grass again, I mean behind the camera of course, and ...

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... Balz Schreier programmed our unmistakable software.

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No, we never wanted to build new cars, ...

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... we just wanted to measure, describe and, of course, visualize them.

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In the meantime, an incredible 15 years have flown by, ...

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... our registered readership rose from a few pioneers and early adopters to a staggering 140,000 more and ...

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... support cases grew from one per month to around 76 per day, both with an upward trend.

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The www.zwischengas.com-Online-Portal has become a true great in the scene.

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We bring back memories of times long gone when you still owned these vehicles yourself, ...

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... right up to the present day, when the car has become an original vintage car and the driver, well, retired.

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No, our site has not been hacked to date.

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But of course, where work is done under time pressure, mistakes happen and ...

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... There were one or two mishaps, so ...

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... the ignition key broke in two in the lock while driving and the Ferrari engine could no longer be stopped, while ...

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... this 330 GT stopped in the middle of the kilometer-long, single-lane roadworks without fuel - with the fuel gauge at half full.

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A lot of patience was required in 2015 when these three older men kept getting lost on the photo route, which was only 500 meters long.

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Ah right, in between we also quickly took over the "SwissClassics Revue"!

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There was really no lack of work - quite the opposite, ...

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... but even the corona pandemic didn't have the slightest chance of getting us off the ideal line and ...

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... we quickly had 1000 days (or around three years) under our belts.

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The initial 3-cylinder engine grew over the years into a 6-cylinder and ...

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... later to the high-revving 12-cylinder, which sometimes still struggles with teething troubles.

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Despite everything, we will not let anything burn in the future, and would be there ...

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... I also like to be a bit cheekier on the road, ...

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... but unfortunately that no longer fits in with the current culture.

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So there I am at the age of 65, the third man in the Reinhard photographic dynasty, standing next to my grandfather's car, ...

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... just like my father did back then.

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As a team, however, we will continue to fight tirelessly and give our best until death do us part and so ...

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... We would also like to remember our two team colleagues Peter Blum and Reto Feurer, who have sadly passed away.

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For more than 780 weeks, we have been reporting on the history of the automobile, from its beginnings to the ...

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... right up to the current year, whereby of course every single Premium Membership is an important support!

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It remains, A VERY Sincere THANK YOU, because without you "zwischengas" would not have been possible.

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