Spatz (automobile)

The Spatz (German for sparrow), later renamed the Victoria 250, is a four-wheeled microcar that was built between 1956 and 1958.

As such the car's engineering proved unsound and trial runs on rough roads led to severe cracks in the bodywork.

Harald Friedrich, managing partner of Alzmetall P. Meier & Friedrich GmbH in Altenmarkt an der Alz, acquired the license from Brütsch to build the "Spatz" and in July 1956 with the Victoria works as a partner, founded the Bayerische Autowerke [de] GmbH (BAG) in Traunreut.

[1][2] The result was a central tube frame and four wheels – in contrast to the original three-wheeled Brütsch.

The fiberglass bodywork resembled a sports car, but with only 10 hp (7 kW) was too underpowered to qualify as such, no matter how light it was.