• Cylinders V2
• Displacement 565 cm³ (35 cu in)
• Output 1,5 ps (1.1 kW)
• at engine speed 700/min
• Top speed 18km/h (11 mph)

Through the construction of the wire-wheel car with a 2-cylinder V-engine Daimler and Maybach made a step ahead in terms of development technology . Presented on the Paris World Exhibition in 1889, the wire-wheel car was in some way the impetus for the setting up of the French automobile industry. The first motor-cars constructed in France were made at Peugeot in 1890 and at Panhard & Levassor in the middle of 1891. In its conception both were based on the wire-wheel car and were driven by Daimler-engines produced in licence at Panhard & Levassor since the end of 1889.

In contrast to the motor carriage by Daimler the wire-wheel car, like the Benz patent motor vehicle, represented an own integral construction and a real automobile. In numerous construction details Daimler and Maybach, the actual creator of this progressive automobile, were far ahead of their time. Apart from the 2-cylinder-engine and the 4-speed toothed-wheel gearbox, both of them realized in the wire-wheel car for the first time, the steering is the most remarkable feature because the axle-pivot-steering was anticipated in some way.

The steel tubal frame serving as the cooling-water circuit at the same time, was supplied by the "Neckarsulmer Strickmaschinen-Fabrik AG" which was a well-known producer of bicycles already at that time. Later it became world-famous under the name of NSU.


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