Influence On Porsche
After news about the results achieved with the Ardie-Ganz and Adler Maikäfer prototypes reached Zündapp, the company turned to Ferdinand Porsche, in September 1931 to develop an "Auto für Jedermann" ("car for everyman"). Porsche already preferred the flat-4 cylinder engine, as was also tried out by Daimler-Benz under supervision of Josef Ganz almost a year previous, but Zündapp preferred a watercooled 5-cylinder radial engine. In 1932, three prototypes were running. All of those cars were lost during the war, the last in a bombing raid over Stuttgart in 1945.
Dutch journalist Paul Schilperoord claims Ganz was "the inspiration behind the Volkswagen Beetle."
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