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.