Several high-profile police chases involving various Norðwagen models appear to be connected to a spate of several dealership arsons in western Germany, all within 72 hours. Whether organized crime was displeased with their performance and meant to punish the company, or on the contrary wanted to keep their rivals from acquiring any, the result was the same - not a single dealership or brand new car between Amsterdam and Bremen was spared. The sole survivor was a 1995 Loki GS-6x2 that the Frankfurt location’s manager had taken home for the weekend.
When Norðwagen was founded in 1963 by its parent company, Dalluha Coach & Motor Works, the Loki nameplate was among the first models offered, a rebadge of the DCMW Nashwar. In contrast to its battleship-grade stablemate, the DCMW Barrijat (aka Norðwagen Þor), Loki is a destroyer, its strength based on light weight and agility rather than obscene power and brute force. In Grand Sport (Norðwagen) or Superiority (DCMW) trims, the 1995 model features full carbon fiber body and chassis construction, along with a 470hp naturally aspirated 4.2L flat-six hewn out of a solid billet of forged aluminium alloy. Weighing less than a ton and with state-of-the-art aerodynamic tuning, this pure, unfiltered, rear-drive sports car’s resulting power to weight ratio gives it supercar-grade performance in both straights and turns, while the mechanical simplicity makes it considerably easier to drive, maintain, and live with.
