Instead of inflating (and getting bigger and bigger), you can also shrink
09/26/2019
These days, it seems that cars are constantly getting bigger and thicker. Examples include the Fiat 500 X, a mini SUV derived from the more compact Fiat 500, or the VW Golf Plus, a minivan based on the Golf V.
But there is and has been another way. At the London "Racing Car Show" in 1966 (see report in AR 3/1966), Silent Travel presented the Minisprint GT, a lighter and lower version of the Austin/Morris Cooper S. Thanks to plastic doors and hoods and a boot lid made of the same material, the weight of the shrunken Mini (left in the photo above) could be reduced by a total of 64 kg together with the lowering of the body (10 cm lower). This meant that the standard 76 DIN horsepower was still around 640 kg, not a bad prerequisite for convincing driving performance.
