291 – Frankfurt Motor Show, day one

Entrance to the Frankfurt Motor Show

Knowing what’s important

TOOK the tram up to the show halls this morning. It’s such an efficient way to travel around a city.

And, with a deep breath, took on the Frankfurt Motor Show again.

To my delight I stumbled across this: a mid-engined sports car, by a specialist maker, with their priorities all in the right place: a case of beer in the boot to demonstrate the carrying capacity.

The car in question was a Melkus 2000. Made by an east German family concern, their engineering expertise – and the founder’s ability at the wheel of racing cars – obscured by years of the Berlin Wall. It’s a really neat mid-engined sports car. And obviously made by a family concern with some soul.