[1][2] After the Great Depression, during the emerging society of Nazi Germany, many people improved by the rising economy again, and the loud and weakly motorized small car was hardly in demand.
[2] The two-cylinder two-stroke engine of the Hansa 400 was built by ILO Motorenwerke,[2] and installed in the rear and made 12 HP (8.8 kW) at 3600 rpm and a compression ratio of 5.6 to 1.
[1] All cars had a non-synchronized three-speed gearbox with stick shift in the middle, driving the rear wheels.
The front wheels were suspended on two transverse leaf springs, as well as the rear pendulum on a swing axle.
That was rather mediocre for such a small car; the 1934 Hansa 1100 managed 24 MPG (9.5 L/100 km) of regular gasoline, while being significantly larger and more powerful.