Audi Tradition - the Department in charge of the heritage and history of the former Auto Union - re-created the 1938 Wanderer Stromlinie Spezial, since none of the original three produced is accounted for today. Originally designed to participate in the long distance competition Liege - Rome - Liege in 1938 and 1939, the Wanderer Streamline Special featured a standard Wanderer chassis with an all-alloy two-seater roadster body. The engine was a design by Ferdinand Porsche - a 6-cylinder inline light alloy motor with a displacement of 2255cc and an output of 70 hp. It was located in the front and drove the rear axle. With a weight of only 900kg, the Wanderer Stromlinie Spezial reached a maximum speed of 140 km/h - or 90 mph.

In the second year of participation in the Liege - Rome - Liege run in 1939, Auto Union won the team award with their three entered Wanderer Streamline Specials.

NSU the Neckarsulmer Strickmaschinenfabrik started out as a manufacturer of knitting machine, that diversified into the production of bicycles in the late 19th century. In 1901, NSU began producing motorcycles and only five years later the first motor car was introduced. Production of various automobile models continued until 1929, when NSU focused again solely on motorbikes.

After World War II, NSU continued to aid the mobility efforts in post war Germany with a line up of two-wheelers like the famous NSU Max, introduced in 1952. As the country recovered, and the Wirtschaftswunder took place in the Fifties, it was the goal of nearly every bike owner to advance to either three or four wheels and a roof over their heads. The first micro cars appeared, and NSU followed suit with the introduction of the Prinz in 1958.

In 1953, the Borgward and Lloyd dealer and race car driver Karl-Heinz Schäufele developed a streamlined version of a Lloyd LP 400. The engine - a 2-cylinder 2-stroke of originally 386 ccm volume and an output of only 17 hp - was modified at the Lloyd works in Bremen. The volume was decreased to 350 ccm, but the output more than doubled to astonishing 40 hp. With a weight of only 290 kg and a body perfected to minimize wind resistance, the Roland or Weiße Maus took to the French race circuit of Monthléry in May of 1954. Over the next three days, the drivers Karl-Heinz Schäufele, Adolf Brudes and Rieker would set no less than 14 international endurance speed records - among them 121,10 km/h over a distance of 500 km and 112,11 km/h over 72 hours. The top speed of the Roland was in excess of 150 km/h - or 95 mph.

The following year, the engine was modified again and enlarged to 386 ccm. Additional refinements on the streamlined body enabled the Lloyd Roland to set another speed record in 1955 at 141 km/h. Afterwards, the weiße Maus was stored away from public view, until it became part of the Hillers Museums in Hamburg and Tremsbüttel from 1962 to 1996. In 2004, a restoration brought the Lloyd speed record car back to it's former splendor and even back to the race track in 2005. It is now on permanent display at the Boxenstop Museum in Tübingen.

In the former Deutsche Demokratische Republik or GDR the police forces had the name Volks-Polizisten or short VoPos. This might have sounded more citizen friendly - but if one spotted them on the former Transit-Routes between Germany and West-Berlin, one better watched the speed as well. Infractions of only 1 km/h (.625 mph) above the low East-German speed limits were a welcome reason to issue citations - payable on the spot and in western currency.

But these two friendly gentlemen dressed as VoPos belong to the Wartburg, Trabant and Barkas club, which displayed several automobiles of former East-German production. The police car of choice was the Wartburg 353, featuring a 3-cylinder, 2-stroke engine with 992 ccm and an output of 50 hp. 0-60 was attained in under 15 seconds and the top speed was 130 km/h - not quite enough to chase the Western Bourgeoisie in their Mercedes, BMW or Porsche.