The only road car the company produced from 1959 to 1986 was the Melkus RS 1000.

It was a sleek sports car powered by a tuned mid-mounted Wartburg 3-cylinder 2-stroke engine.

In the early 1990s, Heinz Melkus and his family started running a BMW dealership in Dresden.

It was originally to be powered by either an Opel or turbocharged 150–200 hp (110–150 kW; 150–200 PS) Volkswagen engine.

[4] The car manufacturing arm of Melkus filed for bankruptcy in August 2012.