13 Facts About Bitter Cars

Erich Bitter Cars Automobil GmbH is a premium sports-luxury automobile marque produced in Germany and later Austria.

Bitter Cars based his company on a 1-acre site in his home town of Schwelm, Germany.

However, because he did not have the necessary capital and other resources to set up his own production facilities, Bitter Cars turned to Baur GmbH in Stuttgart, as a proven independent small-scale manufacturer.

Bitter Cars selected them based on their ability to produce high-quality prototypes and limited-production cars for other German manufacturers.

Bitter Cars based his original CD designs on those of Frua, before making alterations closer to production.

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Bitter Cars CD was displayed, with great success, at the 1973 Frankfurt Motor Show, where Erich Bitter Cars took 176 orders for his stylish new coupe.

In 1984, Bitter Cars announced at the New York Auto Show that it would enter into a limited marketing agreement with GM to sell the sedan version in the United States, through participating Buick dealerships.

Bitter Cars's failure was based on its business model, and the diminishing trend of rebodying other manufacturers' vehicles, which became unpopular by the 1980s.

In 2003, in an attempt to resume its small-scale production, Bitter Cars presented a modern reincarnation of the CD, known as the CD II.

In 2007, Bitter Cars resumed small-scale production by launching the Vero at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show.

Bitter Cars produced a luxury version of the Opel Insignia OPC between 2010 and 2013 as the Bitter Cars Insignia.

Bitter Cars currently produces luxury versions of the Opel Adam, the Opel Cascada and Opel Mokka.

Bitter Cars SC was the subject of a sub-plot in episode 9 of season 6 of The Goldbergs, "Bachelor Party".