"The NSU TT is one of those cars whose destiny is to be somehow hip. We're not sure how it happens, but take a classic three box format - add a utilitarian stripped-down simplicity finish with an EVO version that "
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Hail the Prince
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Sometimes the way a car is presented graphically transcends the quality of the car itself.
Depending on your perspective, this is either the human genius of marketing – or evidence of how stupid we are as a breed.
Whichever your personal perspective, you can’t help but enjoy these lovely graphic representations of NSU’s super-compact family car, which, in its various manifestations, was the ubiquitous German runabout between 1957 and 1973.
The quirky little gem had a number of brain-fathers. The racy TTS version was penned by Scaglione, and looked incredibly appealing in a left-field, Joe 90 kind of way.
When you think of how the German economy came to dominate Europe in the years- this little motor helped motor the country out of the ruins.
If Issigonis‘s Mini was the totem of England’s sixties swing, then surely the The Prince deserves a bit of recognition
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