Marilyn and I got to talking the other day, thought we might look in to getting a different car. Needed a change, had these two for quite some time now. For some reason, getting a different car seemed like a good idea, especially since we are in the Winter "blahs."
I've been seeing those Jetta commercials, and VW's. I had a VW many years ago, an older one, really liked it, so we were leaning toward a German car, or at last a European one.
I did some Googling on European cars, and there were many produced in Europe. We found one, manufactured by a company that grew during WWII producing a variety of war machines, still producing a variety of products, tractors, commercial vehicles, quite a variety of vehicles, but a company with a lesser known name. They were located on the Rhine River near Dusseldorf.
Their head design engineer, Heinrich VonSchlemmer had much to do with a revolutionary design of an eight cylinder engine, unique because of a new design of a Cam Nut Bolt Adjuster, a powered Clever, rather than a manual one, and some other features. It was decided they would use VonSchlemmer's eight cylinder engine in the new car they were going to produce.
The Product Development Department was given the task of promoting and marketing the car, as well as finding a new and unique name for it. Otto Presner was in charge of the Product Development Department. Gorman Schutanner, was the company President and offered Otto a few suggestions that he felt should be incorporated into the naming of the new vehicle. His two main concerns were insuring the public was aware that it was a European car, and also the companies proximity to the Rhine, and keeping the public aware of Heinrich's new eight cylinder engine.
Otto and his crew worked diligently on naming the new vehicle. Euro, somehow had to be in the name, and Rhine also needed mention, and of course Heinrich's engine. EuroRhine came to their attention, Karl Vocker, one of the team felt it was too long. "Let's take out the o and the R, and we must mention the motor."
"How about the EurineEight."
Thus, a car was born, and we are on CarFax trying to locate one. It also seemed appropriate with my Kidney Stone problem.
