#zundapp

[girlsandmachines]

Zundapp, 1977.

[postfuturistikarcturus]

majestic creatures.

[motobilia]

1947 Zundapp Oskar Pillenstein Compressor Racer

source: Mecum.com

[grimsgreymatter]

hes back

i promise ill post my artfight stuff but the post has deleted itself twice so far so . im working on it

[boanerges20]

Zundapp SS

[frenchcurious]

Zundapp Janus 1958. - source Conceptcarz

[cars2-renaissance]

Been looking through my die cast cars and I can’t find my Tomber or Zundapp anywhere!!!

*looks at Leland suspiciously* I swear.

[blackthewolf17]

psst. i am fixating today and was wondering - any headcanons or things you like about Professor Zündapp? 😉💖

Nooooo, you shouldn't, you shouldn't have asked me about him…

Look, I'm embarrassed if this ends up being too long a text but… there will definitely be some selfship stuff.

1.- Zundapp is apathetically affectionate, I mean, the greatest show of affection you can receive from him is that he smiles at you and says "good job". always him to keep a certain distance from people (cars?) In case they betray him or die, so seeing him being affectionate is something that he reserves only for his weapons. Although the true way in which he shows affection is by spending time with you and sharing all his knowledge, coming to make excuses to spend more time with you or knowing about you.

which brings us to…

2.-He feels some panic when someone shows him affection, it is rare that someone is kind to an old car and given his history he has many reasons to be suspicious. And when that affection comes from someone he likes is confused and shy most of the time, he knows that he likes to feel appreciated by you, but he also doesn't want to be so weak in case something happens.

3.- He is obsessive, or at least he likes to investigate things very well in a somewhat paranoid way. If there is something that he does not know, he will investigate it; So it's possible that he spent weeks researching you before having a first interaction with you, or even if it's actually the first time you've met, he's going to spend a long time getting to know you.

and this is mixed with

4.- He is not good with modern things, he is the type of adult who knows everything about industrial mechanisms but do not put an instagram reel on him because he will have to put on glasses, move his face away 20km to see him so that at end when he take the mobile turn it off.

So, most of the interactions that you have is going dont know what the other is talking about, and for their part they will be all the time making small notes of the things you say to look for them later.

5.- Zundapp spends a lot of time locked up between his machines and plans, and when I say a lot, it's A LOT. So the fact that he goes out to get some sunlight is quite an event, yes I know that in Cars 2 he spends his time living with other cars but I have that mental image of him spending long periods of time isolated in his workshop for later leave for a few months before going into isolation again or being thrown in prison.

For what very possibly you end up becoming the only social interaction he have in weeks on many occasions.

7.-And even if it doesn't seem like it, he really likes to be in the middle of the action, the adrenaline rush that comes from being in a chase or even when he's already been caught makes him really happy. Of course, like everyone else, he is afraid of feeling pain or of dying, but going to prison, escaping, committing crimes is a routine that he enjoys and it would feel strange if he left all that.

I'm really sorry if there are any grammar mistakes, it's 3 in the morning and my head is dying 🕴

[classicvirus]

Never seen one: 1957 Zündapp Janus

We don’t know about you, but we weren’t aware of the existence of this microcar, which was probably created to compete with the Isetta. The basic design is indeed identical: four wheels, a two-stroke engine, and front access are the main features that characterized the Italian microcar and were clearly borrowed from this Zundapp, a factory that, among other things, specialized in building…

[1801669]

sunday bloody sunday

[motorcycle-id]

Left to right, top to bottom

1: 1976-1980 Zundapp KS50 Watercooled

2. 1976-1980 Zundapp KS50 Watercooled

3: 1971 Zundapp KS50 Super Sport

4. 1971-1977 Zundapp KS125 Sport

5. 1972-1979 Zundapp KS50 Super Sport

6. 1972-1979 Zundapp KS50 Super Sport

7. 1983-1984 Zundapp KS80 Sport

8. 1971-1977 Zundapp KS125 Sport

9. 1971-1976 Zundapp KS50 Watercooled

10. 1971-1977 Zundapp KS125 Sport

70s and 80s ads for the legendary German motorcycle manufacturer Zündapp.

[girlsandmachines]

Zundapp, 1970

[motobilia]

1947 Zundapp Oskar Pillenstein Compressor Racer

source: Mecum.com

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[cars2-renaissance]

OHHHHHH THIS GOT MY BRAIN TO COOKING!!!!

It does seem strange that Leland got his cover blown. I agree, he’s every bit as competent as Finn, if not more so. (It was Leland who went undercover, not Finn, which says something about who they trusted more to get back alive.)

Zundapp calls Leland by name when Acer and Grem reveal his body. So he’s been a pain in the ass to at least Zundapp for a while. (Finn was surprised to see Zundapp there so their dealings with him definitely predate that particular mission.)

Plus Leland is able to send a whole ass video transmission to Finn while running for his life ON A BOAT. There’s only so many places you can even hide in that confined of a space. He’s no slacker.

But he got caught.

Now I have a feeling that Leland waited until the last possible moment to call for help. The fact that he went in alone then waited till he was being actively chased to call Finn says one of two things: either he is one hell of an adrenaline junkie, or he REALLY didn’t want Finn there.

I always read that scene of him telling Finn not to call the cavalry as a kind of “hey, try and be discreet here.” Then he really emphasizes the “BE CAREFUL!” So I’m guessing Finn isn’t always the most subtle spy and Leland is trying to get him to watch the explosions and not blow the whole mission.

Which Finn listens to.

Until he sees what they did to Leland and then it’s gun fire explosion city and he blows a slew of them to hell… a repeating occurrence throughout the film: the explosion in Tokyo, whatever the frick happened at the airport, the fragging boat explosion in London. Finn is not the most subtle spy. He gets what needs to be done, done, but something is going to get blown up in the process. I think that’s the reason Leland went undercover alone. Finn will get the mission done but he’s a handful.

I think the fear we see in Leland’s expression is more about what’ll happen to Finn if he gets caught too. I think Leland knows he’s not going to make it out. He’s going to hold out for as long as he can but he knows Finn can’t possibly make it there in time to save him. But he really doesn’t want Finn to get caught too.

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Now as far as Torque is concerned, I have my heavily biased theories. My headcanon is that he was there when Leland got caught and tried to help him. Torque is good car. We see his character in the bathroom scene when he refuses help from Mater so that Mater isn’t out in any danger, knowing he will probably die because of it. He’s willing to put his life on the line for someone else.

Now Leland doesn’t show up later in the movie so whatever Torque did to try and help, whether it went as far as to fake Leland’s death or not, it didn’t work the way he would’ve wanted it to. This means he was likely put in a tough spot where Zundapp might’ve started to suspect him. I’m not saying it’s Leland’s fault he got caught, but Torque may have put himself in a risky position to try and help him out, a risky position that might’ve tipped off the lemons.

Now.

If there was a mole.

This would definitely explain how two seasoned field agents got caught back to back.

I’m sure Leland sent a report to chrome that he was going under cover on the ship, if he wasn’t ordered to by chrome in the first place. They would’ve known so the mole would’ve known.

Also I have a feeling all of the agents individual communiqués are either recorded or relayed through chrome because of the way Finn and Leland open communication with each other very formally. They use their full names. “This is Agent Leland Turbo. I have a flash transmission for Agent Finn McMissile.” “Leland Turbo, this is Finn McMissile. I’m at the rally point, over.”

But they both drop the formalities immediately after that and go to a first name basis. So it seems a bit pointless to have that formality unless it’s being used for records, records a mole could have access to.

The unnamed American intelligence agency would’ve definitely known about Torque being on the oil rigs. However, he was likely there for a while, so if he had gotten ratted out by a mole, I would think the lemons would’ve taken care of him much sooner. Unless they were keeping an eye on him to try and catch his contacts too?

But come on. They didn’t catch that Mater wasn’t Ivan in Porto Corsa? But they somehow figured out Torque was an agent? Mighty suspicious. And they were waiting for Finn with the magnet. (But of course he was going to come after them.)

Now, if the mole was feeding them information, it was not being distributed down the chain of command. Acer and Grem act like they were surprised that Torque was an agent. (Was it Acer) was shocked to see that Finn was alive in Tokyo. So the only cars who would’ve had that information had to have been Axlerod and probably Zundapp.

I don’t know. There’s a lot to unpack here. There’s also probably more clues toward the end of the movie when they’re in London but I haven’t gotten around to dissecting those scenes yet.

But yeah if Finn ever did get ahold of that mole, ha!! Hohohoho boy.

An insidious leak: the analysis of seemingly shady uncloakings

My brain is rolling and spinning yet again at one thousand miles per hour and Leland Turbo is right at the centre of it. Certain writing persuits have triggered a pattern of thought surrounding the circumstances of his discovery by the lemons, and I have a few things Id like to further examine.

"This is Agent Leland Turbo. I have a flash transmission for Agent Finn McMissile. Finn, my cover's been compromised. Everything's gone pear-shaped."

He doesn't elaborate any further than this for potential reasons I shall delve into a little bit later in this post. So the question I have is this:

Why? Why did it all go to hell in the first instance? How was he compromised?

Leland is very much on par with Finn in the sense of experience. They spent both of their entire adult lives together in training at the CHROME academy and have carried out countless missions both seperately and with each other. He is more than competent with, what I estimate would be, around forty years of field experience. And considering he would have known that complacency would always get him killed, he would never have allowed himself to become complacent enough to permit his facade to come into the light. And to be permitted to perform any type of mission on his own, then his ability is extensively trusted indeed. Mistakes happen, sure. But I sincerely doubt Leland would have made one that held this type of consequence.

My current aswer to this question?

CHROME had a mole.

Upon beginning this post, I came to the realisation that there is a second segment that didn't initially cross my mind that adds evidence to this particular ideology:

"Finn, I need backup. But don't call the cavalry, it could blow the operation."

Leland knew about the mole. Or at least he had his suspicions.

Initially I simply put this statement down to 'too many cooks spoil the broth', or in this case, 'too many agents will screw up the mission.' However, I'm no longer so sure that this is the case.

Visually speaking, his face says a million words. He is terrified. Evidently, if he's caught, he knows he is in for a whole universe of hurt. And death is very much on the horizon. But the fear makes a drastic appearance when he specifies not calling the "cavalry". This makes perfect sense to me if he thinks that the lemons were tipped off about his presence. And if there was someone within CHROME who could not be trusted, then the only vehicle he was be able to notify was Finn.

He knows him better than any other vehicle in the world and trusts him with his life. He's also aware that, if the flash transmission were to be seen by any other CHROME agent by accident, and he had of mentioned anything about a potential leak, it could have put Finn in a gargantuan amount of peril. So he kept quiet about the idea, simply telling him to not get the agency as a whole involved.

Now, I can't bring up Leland in this circumstance without also talking about Rod Redline. The second agent in the equation who also lost their life because he was compromised. And the same question applies since we don't really know how it happened to him either.

Rod was also a highly skilled and competent individual, hence the statement: 'Rod "Torque" Redline is considered by many as the greatest American spy in the world.' So all, if not most, of the criteria that applies to Leland applies to Agent Redline as well. And yet, he was also caught.

His shock when Grem and Acer followed him into the bathroom at the Towkyo party is quite telling. Its indicitive that he didn't know he had been caught until that exact moment. And the lack of any other emotion but deep seated anger on the faces of Grem and Acer could potentially indicate that they knew exactly who they were looking for.

If he was discovered due to a mole, since inter-agency cooperation isn't uncommon when working on the same mission, then it may just have been the same mole that told the lemons about Leland Turbo.

And of course there's the question of how Grem, Acer and the professor knew about the agents in the first place. Zundapp even mentions them both by name.

"Hey, Professor Z! This is one of those British spies we told you about." Yeah. Most likely a mole.

So what was the mole's driving force? Money? Blackmail? Sadism? A crippling hatred for the agencies or individuals? Who knows.

Of course we might never know for sure the exact reasoning for why they were both compromised. But it's always interesting to speculate.

Chrysler help the vehicles who caused Leland's death when Finn gets hold of them. Particularly if they are someone that he once trusted.

[haunted-planes]

Modern Cars 2 villains

Miles Axlerod as Miles Cybertruck

Prof. Zündappas Prof. Multipla