Goliath Hansa 1100
An original, unrestored German car in which a great deal of money has been invested in the mechanics. Consequently, the engine now runs beautifully again. It shifts, steers, and brakes excellently. The Goliath 1100, and later the Hansa 1100, is a small car that was manufactured from 1957 to 1961 by the Goliath-Werke Borgward & Co., a Borgward subsidiary based in Bremen. A two-seater saloon and a three-door estate version were available, and a year later a two-door coupe was introduced. Before 1959, the Goliath name was dropped and the car was rebranded as the Hansa 1100, a reminder of Borgward's pre-war model of the same name. The Goliath 1100 replaced the Goliath GP900, and apart from an entirely new engine, little had changed. Instead of the two-stroke engine of the GP 700, the 1100 featured a water-cooled boxer engine, an engine format that was adopted by Subaru several years after the discontinuation of the Goliath brand. The Goliath company was founded in 1928 by the enterprising engineer Carl Borgward in partnership with Wilhelm Tecklenburg.
An original unrestored German car in which a lot of money has been invested in technology. The engine now runs beautifully again. It shifts, steers and brakes excellently.
The Goliath 1100, and later the Hansa 1100, is a small car manufactured from 1957 to 1961 by the Goliath-Werke Borgward & Co., a Borgward subsidiary based in Bremen. A two-seater saloon and a three-door kombine (estate) version were available, and a two-door coupe was introduced a year later. Before 1959, the Goliath name was dropped and the car was rebranded as the Hansa 1100, a reminder of Borgward's pre-war model of the same name. The Goliath 1100 replaced the Goliath GP900, and apart from an entirely new engine, little had changed. Instead of the two-stroke engine of the GP 700, the 1100 featured a water-cooled boxer engine, an engine format that was adopted by Subaru several years after the discontinuation of the Goliath brand. The Goliath company was founded in 1928 by the enterprising engineer Carl Borgward in partnership with Wilhelm Tecklenburg. The plant had been bombed to destruction during the war, but in the 1950s it produced a succession of small front-wheel-drive passenger cars. The Goliath 1100 was the last of these.