The Adler Diplomat is a substantial six cylinder “limousine” (saloon) built by the Frankfurt auto-maker, Adler. It was introduced in March 1934 as a direct replacement for the manufacturer’s Standard 6 . Less directly the six cylinder Diplomat also replaced the Adler Standard 8 since Adler’s large eight cylinder car was discontinued in 1934 without a direct replacement of its own.
The decision had been taken to abandon the “Standard” name because it carried mundane undertones, in German as in English, which the company felt were increasingly out of keeping with the advancing automobile technology and the growing optimism of the age now that, finally, the economic backwash from the 1929 crash was beginning to recede and growth was returning both to the German auto-market and to the economy more generally.
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