{"id":15325,"date":"2019-10-02T12:20:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T04:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carsome.my\/news\/?p=15325"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T04:07:04","slug":"bmw-premieres-a-new-short-film-the-small-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carsome.my\/news\/item\/bmw-premieres-a-new-short-film-the-small-escape","title":{"rendered":"BMW premiere\u2019s a new short film \u2013 \u201cThe Small Escape\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up from BMW\u2019s series of short films, the brand is back with another one that tells the story of freedom, ingenuity and engineering skill.<\/p>\n

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Thousands of exhibits in the Berlin Wall Museum on Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, commemorate the history of the once divided city, the tightly controlled border between East and West Germany and the people who sought their way to freedom. On the upper floor near the window that overlooks Checkpoint Charlie, a BMW Isetta was once used as an escape car.<\/p>\n

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Klaus-G\u00fcnter Jacobi (age 79) regularly accompanies visitors through the museum as a tourist guide, but not many know that it was his idea to hide a person inside the tiny bubble car and to cross the border with the unnoticed passenger. This is how his best friend Manfred Koster managed to escape from East to West Berlin, and how similarly converted Isetta\u2019s also helped nine others escape the German Democratic Republic.<\/p>\n

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While it seems impossible to hide a person inside a BMW Isetta, car mechanic Jacobi cut an opening into the trim behind the seat bench, shifted the shelf upwards and removed the spare wheel, heating and air filter, he also exchanged the 13-litre fuel tank for a 2-litre canister to make space for a hidden passenger.<\/p>\n

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