Danish Dynamite On the Move

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Kleemann isn't manufacturing a super-car of its own. But hints of big ambitions for the future were flying fast and furious when we toured the Kleemann plant in a suburb of Copenhagen.

In 2002, for example, Danish race driver Jason Watt drove 338 km/hr in a 607 Hp Kleemann E 55 K making it the world's fastest four-door saloon car and less than a year later a ML 55 K bearing the Kleemann's logo clocked a remarkable 282 km/h on Nardo in southern Italy.

[Christian Wichmann Brandt], age 33, says that Kleemann follows the Scandinavian form-follows-function aesthetic. "Cars shouldn't have all kinds of exaggerated details, like spoilers that don't work or air ducts that have no function. We are adding the phenomenon of speed and power to the utmost in comfort and Scandinavian design," he explains.

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Danish Dynamite On the Move

Sweden to the north can do it, and Germany to the south is Europe's largest car-maker. Sandwiched in between is Denmark, a country with solid engineering and design t...

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