In November 2021, Forbes Hungary published a portrait of Motor Classic and its founder, Zsolt Nagy, in its Forbes Life section. The piece was written by Gábor Topolay and appeared on forbes.hu on 20 November 2021.
A narrow, demanding corner of the car industry
The article looks at Motor Classic as part of a small and very demanding corner of the car industry: the restoration of classic Mercedes-Benz cars. These are cars you will not meet on the road, and almost all of the workshop’s customers come from abroad, mostly from Germany and other Western European countries. It also notes that the company’s website is written in English and German rather than Hungarian.
The Mercedes-Benz 600 for Frankfurt
Zsolt Nagy, the owner of the company, recalls one of his favourite memories from nearly three decades of the business: a Mercedes-Benz 600 that the team prepared for the Frankfurt motor show. According to the article, twenty-seven people worked on it day and night. Few cars are as complex to restore as the 600, and Zsolt remembers the project like this:
“It was a huge team effort, a very defining experience.”
Zsolt Nagy, quoted by Forbes Hungary (translated from Hungarian)
A fighter jet in the yard
The portrait also mentions a striking detail from the Tatabánya site: a fighter jet standing in the yard of the workshop.
Read the full article
This post is our own short summary of the opening of the article, written to point you to the original. The full portrait, in Hungarian, belongs to Forbes Hungary and is available on their website (some parts may require a subscription): Forbes.hu – “Uralkodók, eurómilliárdosok keresik a tatabányai csapat szakértelmét”.
Source: Forbes Hungary / Forbes Life, Gábor Topolay, 20 November 2021. © Forbes Hungary. Forbes and its content are the property of their respective owners; this page contains only our summary, one short quotation and a link, with no copied photographs.
