Erich Bitter Former pilot managed to sell 395 units of your Sports CD for more than six years it was on sale. Possibly, this figure for a car manufacturer to use is laughable, but for a small business that manufactured handmade Schwelm cars that he sold at the price of gold, it is possible to speak of success. In 1981 Bitter presented in Frankfurt a new car. The tone was basically the same, a beautiful Italian-inspired bodywork coupled with a mechanistic basis for Opel. If the CD was based on the then flagship Opel Diplomat V8, the new SC is built on the last major car brand of lightning, the Senator, in fact, SC does not mean anything other than Senator Coupé.
If Erich Bitter had Pietro Frua services for the design of the CD, on this occasion were Micchelotti and commissioned Pininfarina who forms the body of the SC. Since Baur could not undertake the construction of the bodies of the SC, Bitter contracted service with the Italian specialist OCRA, but chronic problems of oxidation by the use of recycled steel, made Bitter break the contract and the company opted for Maggiore, a specialist who worked for Maserati and Bristol.
Initially, the Bitter SC was offered with six-cylinder engine line 3 liters of the Opel Monza, Senator, with an output of 180 hp. This engine was too bourgeois for a car that was sold twice what it cost a Porsche 911, so Bitter developed a new modified version of 3.9 liters and 210 hp that if more appropriate. Also introduced two new variants of bodywork a convertible and a sedan with four doors.
Despite its undoubted attractions, excellent build quality and mechanical robustness, as it did with its predecessor, the Bitter SC is always blamed for their lack of glamor from Germany and based on Opel models. It was also criticized the excessive much resemblance to the Ferrari 400, but it is something that should not be surprised when Pininfarina was collaborating in the design. The lack of benefit and Erich Bitter was involved in a scam from his main partner stopped production of the SC.
But Bitter was a tireless and very secure person than I wanted to do, make their own luxury cars, and not cease in the attempt even though none of the projects carried out went right. It was not until 2008, when Bitter able to emulate a similar success of CDs and SC, then came into the Bitter Vero, who was a Holden Statesman modified the engine of a Chevrolet Corvette and equipment worthy of a Rolls Royce, although the entry into force of the new measures on emissions difficult sale in Europe. Today, Erich Bitter is still doing what he likes, build and design cars and says it plans an upcoming release, of course, based on an Opel-GM model.
Since back in the summer of 2006 Minichamps released their excellent miniature Bitter CD, many we were the collectors who have been waiting to put his side a Bitter SC, since we could not get through eBay at the time that launched Paul's Model Art in collaboration with André Marie Ruf. And the wait has been worthwhile, as the Bitter SC has come from the hand of Neo Scale Models. Like all Neo, this is a good miniature, with a very high level of quality. Initially launched in silver and later became Modelcarworld specific version in blue metallic model by which I decided. The model in general is excellent, the only trouble that Neo has spent a few millimeters in length, which is hardly noticeable when placed next to Minichamps CD.
Although today the Daimler name only see in certain models of Jaguar and the general public identifies more with the Mercedes, the fact is that the Daimler Motor Company was one of the pioneers automotive in Britain and was for many years, along with Rolls Royce and Bentley, one of the jewels of the British motor industry. 