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Developed by Vermot AG in Grafschaft-Gelsdorf, Germany, the Veritas III is a production version of a concept first released in 2001. Vermot announced they would produce the car last year for either racing or regular road use. They honor the vintage Veritas racecars, basically rebodied BMW 328s that became one of the best cars a driver could get in the immediate post-war period. Like the classic ve...
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From 1951, the 'Veritas-Nürburgring' is made in the pits of the Nürburgring racetrack. In the same year, the unparalleled development of the racing team iscrowned by the participation of a Veritas Meteor in the Swiss Formula 1 Grand Prix: Which makes the Veritas the first German Formula 1 racing car ever. Even today, the fascination exercised by this legendary racing car is as powerful as ever.
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In the immediate post-war period, very few companies were prepared to make race-cars and hardly any were constructed. Ernst Loof, Lorenz Dietrich and George Meier recognized this opportunity left by the virtual shut-down of German industry. So much so, they started Veritas just one year after the war ended in a small factory at Meßkirch, Baden-Württemberg.
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-powered by a 6.0L BMW V12
-tubular chassis structure
-manufacturer claim of 350km/h
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When Veritas GmbH was first founded in 1948, their primary vocation was taking pre-war BMW components and converting them into the competitive racecars called the Rennsport (RS). These worked remarkably well given the limited availability of resources in the immediate post war period. To complement these efforts, a Coupe was designed with a possible limited production run of 10 or 15.