News & Press 2025
SGS Styling Garage
Dear customers and friends of the Styling Garage
For almost 50 years now, we have been building exceptional vehicles and developing automotive concepts that have attracted and continue to attract great attention and recognition worldwide. SGS Styling Garage Schenefeld has never lost its focus: As an engineer, trained vehicle builder and designer, it has always been important to me to combine function and aesthetics with each other in a technical and high-quality manner in such a way as to create “beautiful solutions” in the truest sense of the word. Solutions that still work even after decades – as many vehicles that have “survived” worldwide show in detail. It was and is incredibly important to me that my customers not only receive their cars happily, but that they come back to us years or decades later to have them restored or given a “refit”. This is still the case today. With the smiles of my customers in mind, there are many exciting stories to tell! Relive them … and look forward to the latest creations and innovations that are currently being developed! Welcome @ Styling Garage
Your Chris Hahn
High-End since 1978
1978 FIFA World Cup in Spain. Hans Krankl scores the golden goal for Austria. Germany loses to Austria in Cordoba. A disaster four years after winning the World Cup in Germany.
Hamburg – also in the summer of 1978. Chris Hahn has a big idea: that of extraordinary custom-made automobile tuning in the high-end sector. A long, eventful story begins … In almost 50 years, many extraordinary vehicles have been created in terms of design and technology. Find out more here …
SGS Designsprache: Ästhetisch. SGS Technik: Langlebig. SGS Automobile: Mythos!
SGS Values & Solutions
- Aesthetics & Design
- Function & High-Tech
- Attention to Detail
- Langlebigkeit & Durability
- 2.000+ built Cars
- One-of Character
- Motto: 100% is not enough!
legendär seit 1978 ...
The history of the Styling Garage Schenefeld from the perspective of a 12 to 16 year old who was already a car enthusiast in the years 1981 to 1985:
“I drove from Iserbrook to Schenefeld every week for soccer training. A short detour to Osterbrooksweg because that’s where the super-cool cars from SGS/the Styling Garage were parked. Pearl white “rainbow cars” based on Mercedes, 500 SEC mega gullwings & convertibles, 190E-based Landaulets, and sometimes even a 928 as a Gullwing. Wow! A new world every week … I even saw a Countach in white with rainbow drops in front of the Blankenese movie theater. A dream for every boy!“
“This fascination with Chris Hahn’s automotive artwork has been inspirational throughout my life … thank you for starting my automotive dreams …“ Dipl.-Ing. oec. Martin Schiemann – 2025
SGS INNOVATIONEN
- 1981 – Gullwing hydraulic doors based on Mercedes
- 1982 – All-electric convertible technology on SEC basis
- 1983 – Multimedia/TV/stereo technology in the interior
- 1984 – Automated switches for automatic transmissions
- 1985 – Tube TV integration dashboard (3 monitors)
- 1987 – Bullet-proof, overlapping armor plating
- 1995 – First hybrid vehicle as a three-wheeler at the IAA
- 1999 – Scissor/butterfly doors “as a normal door”
- 2002 – Development of the Butterfly Doors
