Saw a weird car with a "Salamander" as the logo

[Shinigami]

Was walking down in Geneva, and a car with German license plates was parked on the side of a road. It had a slight retro look to the body, the interior was light tan leather with gauges a la BMW Z8 or Viper towards the middle console, all next to each other (I think it was 5 gauges).

On the front was a small two inch tall salamander/lizard as a logo, and on the back was the name of whoever makes the car. I forgot the exact name of it now, but I think it was something like "wildemann" or "wilfmann", and underneath this were the words "roadster" (the it was a soft top).

Anyone know what I'm talking about? The car was quite small, I think it musta been more show then go (i.e. the engine probably doesn't push hundreds and hundreds of hp), and the rear at first made me think it was a TVR. The lights of which there was aroun 4 on each side, were all round and place a few inches apart, in a slightly slanted vertical line.

Dang, wish I could find a pic to show how it looked like, it was kinda cool :)

[Ovi]

That was a Wiesmann Roadster, a great German sportscar with a BMW straight six engine (3.0 or the M3 engine).


Dang, wish I could find a pic to show how it looked like, it was kinda cool :)
If you don't have a pic, then I have to post it 8) :

http://www.wiesmann-auto-sport.de/roadster/F_03.jpg
http://www.wiesmann-auto-sport.de/roadster/F_04.jpg
http://www.wiesmann-auto-sport.de/roadster/ro_df_a.jpg
http://www.wiesmann-auto-sport.de/roadster/CASINO_07.jpg

Fantastic car :shock:!

[Shinigami]

Yup, that's the one!!!

The one I saw was a dark blue, looked just like this:
http://www.wiesmann-auto-sport.de/roadster/F_04.jpg

I wonder if they have a price on this somewhere on the website...

/me goes looking

[Shinigami]

Whoa, it CAN actually be quite powerful apparently, over 300hp and 0-60 in 4.9 seconds. Very impressive *thumbs up*

I just think the rims are a bit too large for this car...

[Ovi]

Here is the beautiful interior:

http://www.hoefa.nl/pix/wiesmann%20autosport/roadster/roadster_05_b.jpg

:drool:

[Shinigami]

Yeah, the interior is really nice. It looks so bulby and smooth, I quite like that. The shifter looked like it was even lower then you can see in this pic, probably because it was in first gear (from what I saw). cozy stuff =)

[hamlet]

Yes, true, this is a Wiesmann. Actually this is quite a rare car, at least I did not see that many on the street. Most of the time I saw them in car shows, like Frankfurt recently.

But this is a very butyfull car, really elegant and powerfull as well. The body shape is really cool.

Hope you also liked it. Sad that you did not took pictures...

[Shinigami]

I can't take a camera with me to the server rooms when I go install stuff, so I wasn't able to take any photos :(

It was a very nice car indeed tho' :)

[yeckmohr]

I saw the new Wiesmann GT in Frankfurt,beautyful car.

Here are the pics if you never saw this one :

http://img281.imageshack.us/img281/8269/dsc023471jj.th.jpg (http://img281.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc023471jj.jpg)http://img281.imageshack.us/img281/8316/dsc000496qk.th.jpg (http://img281.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc000496qk.jpg)

The second pic is not so good i did it with my handy camera.

[dutchmasterflex]

wow.. dont believe i've ever heard of this car.. bmw powered with those looks.. i wonder how it handles?

i wonder if its legal in the states..

[TT]

Rare car a Wiesemann! Too bad you got no pics of it!

[davide]

it's a gecko! :)

[ARMAN]

http://www.wiesmann.de/indexpc.html nice sight, and shame you couldnt get no pix :(

[davide]

ISn't the wiesmann basicly an M3, only cool?!

engine wise yes, the rest is pretty non-m3.

[tuem88]

The Wiesmann rocks, both Roadster as coupe.

I saw one Roadster twice here(yeah yeah, pics or stfu), so maybe somebody near me owns the car... I hope to catch it one day on camera

[c0wb0y007]

I saw the new Wiesmann GT in Frankfurt,beautyful car.

Here are the pics if you never saw this one :

http://img281.imageshack.us/img281/8269/dsc023471jj.th.jpg (http://img281.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc023471jj.jpg)http://img281.imageshack.us/img281/8316/dsc000496qk.th.jpg (http://img281.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc000496qk.jpg)

The second pic is not so good i did it with my handy camera.


Very nice car that is !!! I saw a wiesmann GT at the Tuningshow in Essen a couple of years ago. They even used one of those in the 24-hours race at the Ring few years ago, since then I have never seen it again. If I'm not mistaking it is powered by the M5 powerplant.

Cheers