The technical enthusiasts who established the Marathon car business purchased the design from Hans Trippel (1908–2001) who had been released from war-related imprisonment in 1949 and at this point was based in Stuttgart.
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The cars were derived from a design by Hans Trippel with a silhouette not unlike that of the Porsche 356, and it has been suggested that the manufacturer’s founder, Bernard Denis, dreamed of producing a French Porsche equivalent.
Hans Christian Andersen | Hans Holbein the Younger | Hans Zimmer | Hans Werner Henze | Hans Memling | Hans Pfitzner | Hans Küng | Hans Conried | Hans Knappertsbusch | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | Hans-Dietrich Genscher | Hans Blix | Hans Zender | Hans Scholl | Hans Hofmann | Hans Christian Ørsted | Hans Raj Hans | Hans Habe | Hans Baldung | Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza | Hans von Ohain | Hans van Manen | Hans Urs von Balthasar | Hans Sloane | Hans Rosbaud | Hans-Georg Backhaus | Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein | Yuvraj Hans | Hans von Halban | Hans von Bülow |