German emerged from World War II with her motor industry in ruins. Many factories had been bombed to rubble in Allied air raids, and the division of the country into Eastern and Western sectors had severed connections between suppliers and manufacturers and in many cases, had left parts of the same company separated by a border which, in due course, became known as the irons Curtain. As the country began to recover, it became clear that it would be the Western sector which would continue the great traditions of Germany’s power motor industry; in the Eastern sector communist policies tied the hand of motor manufacturers, and East Germany’s motor industry became largely irrelevant in world terms.
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In 1945 West Germany was in urgent need of vehicles of all kind, for without them it had no chance of rebuilding its economy. As there was no money with which to import such vehicles, the only option was to make them at home. In those austere times, such frivolities as open cars were frowned upon, and the first years of postwar motor production in Germany were devoted largely to commercial vehicles and mundane sedan cars.
In 1945 West Germany was in urgent need of vehicles of all kind, for without them it had no chance of rebuilding its economy. As there was no money with which to import such vehicles, the only option was to make them at home. In those austere times, such frivolities as open cars were frowned upon, and the first years of postwar motor production in Germany were devoted largely to commercial vehicles and mundane sedan cars.
However, things soon began to improve. In 1948 came complete monetary reform and the first installments of a massive injection of economic aid from the USA. In the motor industry the results were apparent almost immediately, and the first postwar convertible appeared in 1948-49 from Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and Bogward. As the Industry gathered strength, so the production of more and more convertibles was announced, and the 1950s saw a rapid expansion of the numbers and type available.
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Much as in Britain, Germany Produced three major types of convertible car. The first to reappear after the war were the cheapest and easiest to produce – the sedans based convertible – and this type still exists today, altought it has evolved to meet changing tastes. The large luxury convertible returned in the early 1950s as the Germany economy began to stabilize and flourish, but the market for such cars was inevitably limited and, by the end of the following decade, only one models still in production. That, too, died out in the early 1970s and was not replaced.
Much as in Britain, Germany Produced three major types of convertible car. The first to reappear after the war were the cheapest and easiest to produce – the sedans based convertible – and this type still exists today, altought it has evolved to meet changing tastes. The large luxury convertible returned in the early 1950s as the Germany economy began to stabilize and flourish, but the market for such cars was inevitably limited and, by the end of the following decade, only one models still in production. That, too, died out in the early 1970s and was not replaced.
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The sports convertible also proliferated in the 1950s as German ‘economic miracle’ produced conditions in which there was room for such cars alongside rather more pratical means of transport. German sports convertible were almost always better equipped than their contemporaries from other European countries, and they were also much more expensive. Accidents of design, rather than careful planning, enable the open sports models of Porches and Mercedes- Benz to survive the 1970s, with their uncertainties about the future of open cars, and new designs began to appearonce again in the 1980s.
