Today’s Photos : Check Out The Stretched 1953 Rometsch Beetle Taxi With Suicide Doors

Today’s Photos : Stretched 1953 Rometsch Beetle taxi with suicide doors. 

Back in 1950, Johannes Beeskow, a Rometsch designer built the first prototype of a four-door sedan based the now iconic Volkswagen Beetle – a concept he later took into the production of a taxicab.

The wheelbase of the donor Volkswagen Beetle was stretched by about 27 centimetres (11 inch) while access to the backseats was improved by incorporating suicide doors.

Powering the sedan is a 4-cylinder boxer, air-cooled engine, which produces 25 horsepower, allowing a top speed of 100 km/h (62 mph).

In all, just 38 of the stretched Rometsch Beetle taxis was made by the Berlin coach building company, Friedrich Rometsch.

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