Loremo AG: Несбывшийся немецкий автопроект

German automaker company

Loremo AG was a German automaker corporation, based in Marl, North Rhine Westphalia. It was founded in 2000 and went out of business in 2010. Initially the car was conceived for emerging markets such as China and India. The project is currently inactive. No plans to restart development are currently known.

At the 2006 Geneva Auto Show, the company demonstrated its concept car which the company said would become a 157 mpgUS (1.5 L/100 km) turbodiesel car. Two different Loremo models were waiting in the pipeline to be produced: the Loremo LS base model, and the sportier Loremo GT. The Loremo GT would have been based on a three cylinder turbo diesel engine and with this configuration the vehicle still would have managed to achieve 87 miles per gallon. The project was in prototype stage; specific plans for mass production had not been made public. An area reserved for setting up a factory in Indupark Dorsten Marl was on offer to other organisations since the start of 2009. A boardroom shuffle and a lack of partners and capital financing left the project with an uncertain future. A new entry in the company blog was made in August 2010, claiming "promising discussions with a reputable investor from Asia". According to Car and Driver magazine in August 2010, the Loremo "can't be saved" and "it's over".

The next step in development would have been an electric powered car. According to the company, on 11 April 2009 the electrical version Loremo EV drove for the first time on public roads and reached speeds of up to 100 km/h. A film about this drive was published on YouTube.