swissauto

The Wenko AG, Burgdorf ( market presence also swissauto ) is a Swiss company that focuses on the development and manufacturing of internal combustion engines as well as various types turbocharging.

The company was founded in 1987 by Urs Wenger and Beat Kohler and now employs about 30 employees at two locations. At the headquarters in Burgdorf engines and vehicle prototypes are constructed and in place Mellingen the development of chargers and endurance tests of engines instead.

History

In 1989 the Brabham Formula 1 team, with which Stefano Modena won third place in the Grand Prix of Monaco, the company worked on the optimization of the Judd V8 engine.

1992 Wenko worked on the concept and motor development as well as on the production of the Swatch car prototype, a preliminary design of the Smart. In 1996 the company introduced the concept of low demand SAVE finished with the Smile - vehicle, which was the first official three- liter car with petrol engine of street legal. This vehicle concept was honored in 1997 with the idée suisse - Prize.

In 1998, the redevelopment of the MPE -750 engine was done in collaboration with the Weber Motor AG of Mark village, which was later implemented in various applications and versions. In addition, the former comprex AG was taken over in Mellingen.

2000, the company received the award for OECD sustainable technology in transport and infrastructure. In 2001, the series production of the SA 250, which is the world's most successful four-stroke kart racing engine started today. The company also develops Wenko since 2003 engines for jet skis and snowmobiles that have already won numerous world titles in their categories.

In 2007, we entered into a collaboration agreement with AVL Graz on the development of a novel, high-performance test bed for the measurement and development of turbochargers.

2008, a prototype based on a VW Golf V was completed, which featured a 1.0 - liter engine with Hyprex - pressure wave supercharging and 110 kW ( 150 hp).

World Motorcycle Championship

Already in 1992, 1993 and 1994 won the Swiss Rolf Biland and Kurt Waltisperg the world title in the sidecar class. They sat in their LCR team a an advanced Swiss car Krauser two-stroke, four-cylinder. 1994 started the first time with the engine designation Swiss Swiss car and won next to the drivers 'title and the constructors' world title.

In 1995, they developed their own, very lightweight and compact two-stroke V4 engine with 500 cc displacement for use in the Motorcycle World Championship.

1996 sat next to Biland / Waltisperg the Swiss brothers Paul and Charly Güdel and some other Swiss duo car engines under the name BRM Swissauto in their sidecar one. B.R.M. stood here for Büchel racing engines. Although none of the Swiss Car teams won the drivers 'title in the constructors' championship but it was again successful.

As of 1996, the 500 - cc engine from different manufacturers in the half-liter solo class was used. The first was the ELF 500 ROC in 1996 and 1997, with the Spaniard Juan Borja the World Cup ranks 13 and 17 reached.

In the years 1998 and 1999, the German manufacturer MuZ the engine in its MuZ 500, and reached with riders like Doriano Romboni, Luca Cadalora, Jurgen van den Goorbergh against the three major Japanese works of notable successes. Such was after two years, two pole positions and two fastest race laps to book. In 1999 he was even the entire planning and construction of the machine in Swiss car independently.

In 2001, the newly formed pulses racing team under the name Pulse 500 is bought MuZ machines a. However, the team had big financial problems, could therefore no further tests or perform and retired after only three World Championship points at the end of the season from the World Cup back.

Automobile production

1987 the company presented the model of Al Capone. This was a Hot Rod in the style of the 1930s. To drive a V8 engine from Chevrolet made ​​with 5900 cc and 511 hp. Plans to sell vehicles in Germany, failed due to the German regulatory provisions.

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