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	'''Goliath''' was a German brand, active from 1928 to 1959 and which was part of the [[Borgward]] group. Goliath was based in Bremen and specialized in three wheeler cars and trucks and medium sized cars.		{{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Goliath''' was a German brand, active from 1928 to 1959 and which was part of the [[Borgward]] group. Goliath was based in Bremen and specialized in three wheeler cars and trucks and medium sized cars.

	==Early history==		==Early history==

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'''Goliath''' was a German brand, active from 1928 to 1959 and which was part of the [[Borgward]] group. Goliath was based in Bremen and specialized in three wheeler cars and trucks and medium sized cars.

==Early history==
The company ''Goliath-Werke Borgward & Co.'' was created by [[Carl F. W. Borgward]] and Wilhelm Tecklenburg in 1928. The first models where three-wheelers trucks derived from the ''Blitzkarren'' previously built by Borgward. The first passenger car was the ''Goliath Pionier'' in 1931, which still had three wheels and a one-cylinder engine. Until 1934, 4000 of these small cars where produced in various types of body. The ''Pionier'' was considered as a forerunner of the [[Hansa|Hansa]] models 400 and 500.

==After World War II==
=== Personal car models ===

These were front wheel drive two door sedans.

* Goliath GP700 (1950-1957) — two cylinder, inline, two stroke, water cooled, transverse engine (anticipating the [[Mini]] and many recent cars.

* Goliath GP900 (1955-1957) — two cylinder, inline two stroke, water cooled, transverse engine, direct cylinder head Bosch fuel injection.

* Goliath 1100 (1957-1958) — four cylinder opposed four stroke water cooled engine

===Light trucks===

* Goliath GD750 three-wheeler (1949-1955)
* Goliath Dreirad (1955-1961)
* Goliath GV800 (1951-1953)
* Goliath Express (1953-1961)

==The End==
From 1958, the Goliath 1100 models were sold under the brand '''Hansa''', the Borgward group wanted to forget the two-stroke engine and three wheeler image.

Three years later, in 1961, the Borgward group collapsed.

==External links==
{{commonscat|Goliath vehicles}}
* [http://home.arcor.de/weisshauptr/index.htm Goliath Fanpage]
* [http://www.borgward-ig.de/ Borgward-IG]
* [http://people.freenet.de/Goliath-Autohaus/showroom.html Goliath Autohaus]
* [http://www.3wheelers.com/goliath Goliath on 3-wheelers.com]
* [http://www.3wheelermodels.com/ Goliath Scale Models]

{{Borgward group}}

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