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I wonder if the Brits still have the Schlorwagen? The Oldtimer article said that they grabbed it at the end of WWII and took it to back to England. The article also mentioned that it was very sensitive to crosswinds, which would be expected with a heavy 4 cylinder motor in the rear end of the car and most of its side cross sectional profile positioned ahead of the motor. Remember what it was like driving the original VW Beetle in a strong crosswind. This would be less of a problem with today's lighter weight engines and even less of a problem with an EV version's distributed battery load.

From what some of the other articles mentioned, they were planning to put it into production, but the war intervened. I wonder how they were planning to acess the front wheels for service? The rear wheels have a skirt over them, but the front wheels are located inside fully enclosed wells inboard on the car.

That isn't a bent "A" pillar in the "propeller car" photo. They were apparently testing the drag penalty of various cabin air ventilation methods (more important in the days before A/C when you had to flow larger amounts of air through the cabin to keep the occupants comfortable). If you look at that photo of the interior, you can see an angled brace where the upper, inside corner of each corner windshield could open inward slightly for cooling in a similar, but reverse, fashion to the way the rear side windows on some of the early VW's used to open outward slightly to allow air to enter or exit.