Audi museum mobile to exhibit police patrol cars of various brands from nearly every era of police car history from April 10 to August 30, 2015

• 14 historic patrol cars from across the decades
• Special exhibition from April 10 to August 30, 2015
• Paternoster elevator with “Treasures from Neckarsulm”

Ingolstadt, 3-4-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — In a special exhibition entitled “Razzia” (in English: Police Raid), the Audi museum mobile will present 14 police patrol cars of various brands from nearly every era of police car history. The new special show runs from April 10 to August 30, 2015. The museum is offering special tours of the exhibition. Another highlight: Visitors can now see “Treasures from Neckarsulm” – historic cars and motorcycles from this Audi site – on the paternoster elevator in the museum.

While police in the United States realized early on that the car was highly suited to fighting crime, police departments in Germany long continued to send their constables and state troopers through their beats on foot or bicycle. The means of locomotion for police in Germany changed only after the First World War. The oldest exhibit in the show, the 1930 Horch 400 police squad car, originated during this era.

It took several years, however, for the car to finally become established in police work. Police departments at the time sent models from both Auto Union GmbH and NSU Motorenwerke AG out on patrol. Exhibits in the museum include a DKW 1000 S (1963) that was used by the Münster highway patrol, and an NSU Prinz 4 from 1964.

Other cars in the exhibition that bear witness to the era of the German economic miracle include the Volkswagen Typ 18 A (1949) and a Hanomag L 28 GruKW (“Gruppenkraftwagen,” in English: group car), made in 1951. Many visitors will also be reminded of the legendary TV series from the 1960s “Funkstreife Isar 12” when they catch sight of the BMW 501 in the museum. It made television history as the so-called “baroque angel.” In addition, a 1964 Porsche 356 from the highway patrol is being exhibited.

The Audi 100 (C1) also wore a police uniform – the exhibit on display rolled off the assembly line in 1971. Audi primarily supplied the roomy sedan to the highway patrols in Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Bavaria. The national police in the former German Democratic Republic used the Wartburg 353 – the special show includes a model from 1983.

Audi models of the 1990s follow in a green-and-white design. The Audi 80 (B4), produced in Ingolstadt, achieved stardom in the television series “Hubert und Staller” that began in November 2011. The high-performance Audi A6 (C4) – produced from 1990 to 1994 – is particularly suited to service on the highway. With this model, the patrol car began to develop into a modern, digitally connected work station where so many officers now spend more than half of their working time.

An Audi A4 Avant from 2005 and a Lamborghini Gallardo Polizia – with 500 hp, one of the fastest police cars in the world – are shown as representatives of more recent history. The newest exhibit comes from 2009: a VW Scirocco in blue-silver. The sport coupé has never been used in police service, however. It was developed especially for the safety initiative of a tuning club.

Motorized two-wheelers complete the journey through police history: the NSU Quickly as a police moped (1953), a NSU Supermax Polizei (1961), the Ducati 600 Desmo Polizia Urban (1983) and an MZ ETZ (“Einzylinder-Telegabel-Zentralkastenrahmen,” in English: single-cylinder – telescopic fork – central box frame) 250 VP (“Volkspolizei,” in English: national police) from 1985.

A specially developed kids’ program takes young visitors (6 to 12 years) to the exhibition along on a journey into the world of police work. In “Tatü-tata, die Kinderpolizei ist da!” (“Woo-woo, the police kids are here!”) they learn why the blue light is blue, where the siren originated and the story behind the term “the white mice.” The police kids can then try out what they have learned in an interactive project with a pedal car that has been converted into a patrol car. But they have to be careful – their traffic violations might be captured with a flash photo and result in a ticket. More information about the kids’ program and about tours through the special exhibition can be obtained from the Audi Welcome Service, Tel.: 0800 283 4444 (in Germany).

In addition to the new special exhibition, another attraction awaits visitors to the Audi museum mobile. “Treasures from Neckarsulm” can also be seen now on the large paternoster elevator. These document the automotive history of the Audi site. The company NSU was founded in 1873 in Riedlingen and relocated in 1900 to Neckarsulm. Motorcycles began being built there in 1901; automobile production was added in 1906. A selection of 11 cars and five motorcycles on the Paternoster in the Audi museum mobile testify to the long history of NSU. Among the things to see are rare items from history, such as the first NSU race car, the NSU 6/60 PS, which won the first “Grand Prix of Germany for Sports Cars.” Also on display is an NSU Baumm II, a special motorcycle that set world speed records in 1954 in 1956. Along with NSU classics like the Ro 80, Wankel Spider and NSU TT, visitors will also find an NSU Uruguay P6, which the company produced exclusively in that South American country.

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Police officials in the state of Baden-Württemberg drove this model, an NSU Prinz 4, on patrol. The only remaining specimen in Germany is currently part of the special exhibition in Ingolstadt.