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Rumpler Tropfenwagen. From the seaplane to the road
The Tropfenwagen, created by mechanical genius Edmund Rumpler, was inspired by the floats of seaplanes and presented in 1919 as a five-seater torpedo prototype with aerodynamic shape, horizontal mud wings, swing-axle independent rear suspension.
For a mechanical genius who, in order to meet the requirements of the First World War, passed from cars to planes, it is somewhat easy to be inspired by the latter to create an everyday car. Edmund Rumpler, who created the famous Rumpler Taube monoplane during the war and who also studied magnificent seaplanes for passenger transport, was inspired by the floats of the seaplane when he created his own car at the end of the conflict.
The mighty seaplane designed by Rumpler and never built housed passengers inside the wings
The Tropfenwagen was the result and it was presented as a as a five-seater torpedo prototype in 1919 with all kinds of innovations. First of all the shape, rigorously aerodynamic to the point of having, in a sort of bow configuration, two headlights placed vertically one beneath the other.
