Anadol Çağdaş

The Anadol Çağdaş, a Turkish word meaning contemporary, was a prototype car developed at Otosan in the late 1970s and early 1980s under the designer Jan Nahum, as the company tried to modernise its range and use less fibreglass. Its body combined fibreglass parts with a steel skeleton, and it carried the Wankel engine that Claude Nahum had developed at Otosan. The car won the top prize in the industrial design category of the Turkish State Fine Arts Academy in Istanbul, and the Turkish press covered it widely, predicting production for 1980 or 1981. Political, social and economic instability meant the project was never realised and the car never went on sale. Jan Nahum built two prototypes, and a single surviving one is displayed at the Rahmi M. Koç Museum in Istanbul.