The Enzo Ferrari based Gemballa MIG-U1. The last Gemballa project before Uwe Gemballa did a runner.
After Uwe Gemballa’s disappearance and the subsequent liquidation of the business, Gemballa are back in business under the leadership of Andreas Schwarz.
Regular readers were enchanted by the Uwe Gemballa stories we regaled them with earlier this year. Poor, downtrodden Uwe; kidnapped by vicious mercenaries in South Africa; begging for money from his wife to pay ransom; police on two continents working feverishly to rescue him.
In reality Uwe had done a runner; not for the first time in business we discovered. We reported that he’d set up a Gemballa business in his elderly mum’s name just before disappearing; we reported that the Gemballa busines had been raided and that cars on the Gemballa premises had been impounded. We reported that there were question marks over tax bills, suppliers bills, investors money, disappearing cars…
We got lots of criticism for our assertions about Gemballa, as the world initially believed the fairy story Uwe had hoped to use to pull the wool over people’s eyes and escape to a new life. But in the end the authorities brought the curtain down on Uwe Gemballa’s eponymous business, and it looks like the only people looking for Uwe now are those to whom he owes money.
But the world moves on and the trading name and assets of Gemballa have been acquired by Andreas Schwarz, with investment from Steffen Korbach. They already have 22 employees in place feverishly working away to ruin enhance the new Porsche Panamera and Porsch Cayenne in the newly reopened Gemballa store in Leonberg.
Let’s hope Uwe’s mum doesn’t turn up looking for wages.
