Inventory of vehicles by Luigi Colani

Colani presented an ideal aerodynamic shape of the vehicle with its concept “C-Form” in 1968, a vehicle where the whole body forms an inverted wing. The concept was presented in Stern magazine and influenced a generation of student designers with its architecture of four front wheels suspending a form of central cabin. The sports coupe “Le Mans 82” from 1982 and the BMW “M2” were studies that, although somewhat baroque, defined a unique form language seen years later in vehicles like the Corvette Indy and the Porsche 959.

There is only 3 cars of this type in different variants:
1. The first was the plastic body “New RS” with sponsor Castrol marking .
2. The second version was made of aluminum – Ford GT 80 Colani. Ford gives the engine for these cars, the same as in the De Tomaso Pantera.
3. Body number 3 was under renovation or damaged.

Colani's latest spotcar. The design has its origins in a sketch of an idea that he produced in 1967, which was then developed to become the wind tunnel scale model and the model 1/1 from 1977 .

To create the next tractor, Colani organized its own heavy vehicle workshop in Switzerland. The design of the second generation tractor, first introduced in 1980, is based on the chassis of a Mercedes-Benz truck 1729 with a motor 240 horses. On this model, Colani was the first to use an all-glass oval-shaped hood, and the cabin was made in the form of a single-hulled monohull. Furthermore, a door at the end of the cabin now served as access to the lounge.

The drag coefficient of the second generation tractor has been reduced to 0,38, which has reduced the average fuel consumption on the road to 26,7 l / 100 km. Maximum speed, despite the less powerful engine, was from 150 km / h. To popularize the idea of ​​a streamlined truck, Colani, with the help of several sponsors, organized the Truck II race in the United States. In total, the tractor has driven approximately 30 000 km. However, the race was not very successful and the manufacturers did not show a real interest in the industrial production of such equipment. Consequently, the second tractor was sold to the German clothing company Bardusch, repainted in blue and … safely forgotten. The maestro himself, after cooling for a while with trucks, settled in Japan in 1982.