The FSO Syrena Sport - or the most beautiful car from behind the Iron Curtain 🏎️🇵🇱
Showcasing a car less likely to be seen here - the prototype FSO Syrena Sport from Poland, launched in 1957. In spite of raving reception from the press and public, they were unfortunately never placed onto serial production. Powered by a four stroke boxe...
The distance in 1970 was not as much…
The first 911s started with 130bhp if I recall correctly 😉
The early ones had 195/65R15 tires…
Way too small for most compact city cars nowadays 😂
I guess given that it came out in 1970…
Western car magazines were no longer interested 🤷🏻♂️
I also always thought so…
Imagine it as a restomod with a BMW motorcycle boxer engine 🦾
A bit older than the Sprite, though 😊
The SL was apparently one of the design inspirations 😊👍🏻
I don't remember ever seeing this one before!
Despite not speaking Polish, I can easily understand the headline on the side of the stand - You Can't Buy a Legend xD.... It's a very attractive design, no doubt about it. Nowadays, the only hyper-successful and impressive vehicle manufacturer in the reg...
Hyper successful is a relative term…
Hype-d for sure and I definitely have to give them credit there. From the latest public figures they make a loss of over €1million per every Bugatti sold. But they had great timing where several large manufacturers (primarily Porsche and Hyundai) had plen...
Most likely outcome?
Porsche exits and once the money is burned (bar the last couple of tens of millions for the owner) it all gets closed down and enters the automotive history books 🤷🏻♂️ Unfortunately their component business never took off and the volumes of their cars ke...
It's particularly relevant that you point out the components business....
which was indeed heavily hyped, but I never once followed up on how it was actually doing at present.... Evidently nowhere near as well as they would have hoped for 🙃....
It’s not an easy market…
They lack both scale and an USP to make it fun financially. A lot of mid tier suppliers have burned themselves there, as it’s a segment both they and the OEMs knew too little about. Most are bleeding money hand over fist, partially also as a result of the...
It is not a completely stand-out design…
But I find the elements well applied and matched into a coherent whole. Too bad they never got produced in larger numbers 🤷🏻♂️