No Ghibli for Su
08/14/2020
Those were the days when pop stars drove a box duck (Citroën AK) instead of a super sports car. Most of us will have long forgotten Su Kramer, but she was well known at the beginning of the seventies. She played the role of Sheila in the German premiere of the musical Hair in 1968, still under her baptismal name Gudrun. She then produced several smaller and larger hits as Su Kramer, the most famous of which was "Kinder der Liebe" (Children of Love) in 1974, according to Wikipedia.
In 1972, however, she appeared in the youth magazine "Bravo" not as a singer but as a test driver in the series "Stars test cars" and proved to be a good car connoisseur. About the Maserati Ghibli Spider, which cost DM 76,000 at the time, she said: "The Ghibli is the most stylish doll catcher and playboy wheelchair I know, but it's still not my private dream car ..."
She rattled off a whole lot of figures, including that DM 25,000 was due for a replacement engine or that the windshield cost DM 1850. She also knew about the fuel consumption (25 to 30 liters of Super). And that the aluminum rim would cost DM 890 and a tire DM 370. Obviously, such information was of particular interest to Bravo readers.
How many of these readers subsequently ordered a Ghibli from Auto König in Munich is beyond our knowledge. But as the saying goes: There's no such thing as bad publicity ...
And of course we also show the cover of the issue, which doesn't even mention the test. Maybe that's why we preferred to buy Rallye Racing or Auto Motor und Sport back then?
