Wimille

Brand:

Wimille (also known as JPW)

Country:

France

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JPW and Wimille - The failure of the French streamline

February 21, 2022 — Paul Krüger 38

1946: While the European car industry was just restarting production with old pre-war models, French racing driver Jean-Pierre Wimille presented his idea of a car of the future in the form of the radically different JPW with a mid-engine and center steering. This article tells the story of the streamlined car which, despite three attempts, never made the big breakthrough.

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	Ancestor	from 1800 to 1904
	Veterans	from 1905 to 1918
	Pre-war	from 1919 to 1945
	Post-war	from 1946 to 1959
	Sixties	from 1960 to 1969
	Seventies	from 1970 to 1979
	Eighties	from 1980 to 1989
	Nineties	from 1990 to 1999
	Neoclassic	from 2000 to 2025

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JPW and Wimille - The failure of the French streamline