HQM Sachsenring GmbH
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Industry | Automotive |
Founded | 1957 |
Headquarters | Zwickau, Germany |
Products | Automobiles |
Number of employees | 300 |
Website | HQM Homepage |
HQM Sachsenring GmbH is a Zwickau-based company that supplies chassis and body parts to the automotive industry.
The company was named after the Sachsenring race track.
Called VEB Sachsenring until 1990, it was a producer of vehicles in the former German Democratic Republic, its most famous product being the Trabant.
After three years in bankruptcy, Sachsenring AG was purchased in February, 2006 by Härterei und Qualitätsmanagement GmbH (HQM) of Leipzig. The company supplies among other things, the Volkswagen factory with parts for the Golf and Passat models.
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Entrance to Sachsenring AG buildings
Models
Supermini
- AWZ P70 Zwickau (1955–1959)
- Trabant P50 (1957–1962)
- Trabant 600 (1962–1965)
- Trabant 601 (1964–1990)
- Trabant 1.1 (1990–1991)
- Sachsenring UNI 1 (prototype, 1996)
Luxury vehicle
- Sachsenring P240 (1954–1959)
- Sachsenring P240 Repräsentant (1969)
Trucks
- IFA H3A (1957–1958)
- IFA S4000 (1959–1960)
Gallery
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1983 Trabant 601L
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AWZ P70 Zwickau
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1957 Sachsenring P240
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1969 P240 Repräsentant
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Trabant 1.1
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IFA S4000
External links
- UK-based official Wartburg, Trabant and IFA owners' club
- HQM official site (German)
- Official Site of Augus Horch Museum Zwickau
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