Spring 1994

Looking back over thirty years, it's impressive to see what China was, what China has become today and what it can still become in the automotive sector...

1994 Beijing: road situation.2024 Beijing: road situation.

In the spring of 1994, for the first time in the history of STOLA S.p.A. China, understood as a state strongly interested in the automobile. This will happen through the Porsche and Mercedes companies, which at the same time and without the knowledge of both, will contact Mr and Mrs Stola directly in the same period, and will immediately become their extraordinary customers. The Chinese government, in the person of its President, had consulted the most important car manufacturers in the world to ask them to imagine the future of the automobile in their nation, asking for a prototype to be exhibited in their first Automobile Show in Beijing planned for following autumn.

Porsche will present the C88 based on Skoda and Mercedes the FCC based on Class A, both made in STOLA S.p.A..

In 1994, both Porsche and Mercedes will interpret the future of the Chinese car in an extremely popular way as can be seen from the type of prototypes presented.

1994 Turin: official photo of the C88 taken as soon as the prototype was completed.

1994 Turin: official FCC photo taken as soon as the prototype was finished. This family Chinese, Mercedes specially invited her to Turin to take part in the photo.