CARGRAPHIC - how it all began

In 1984 car enthusiasts, Thomas Schnarr and his brother recognized the great demand for spare parts for classic English and Italian sports cars like Austin Healey, Jaguar, Triumph, Alfa Romeo, Lamborghini or Ferrari in their home region in Landau in the Southwest of Germany and founded CARGRAPHIC as a specialized spare parts retailer.

Equipped with a Nissan Patrol and a hooked up trailer Thomas Schnarr starts his tour across Europe to buy and pick up OEM manufactured parts and pieces and provide the growing community of classic sports car drivers with required spare parts in Landau and shortly later across Germany. The great success of
the young company brought the decision not only trading parts but also to restore complete cars.

For this reason, a suitable company building with enough storage space and an integrated workshop had been required and found in a former factory building in the centre of Landau.
Because the restoration process was not only limited in replacing broken pieces but also by improving known weak points with complete new and intelligent constructed parts, CARGRAPHIC became well known for perfectly rebuilt classic sports cars with every day usability.

The winning of the FIA GT European Championship of Historic Sport Cars documented the high quality of CARGRAPHIC restored automobiles.

With this kind of experience, Thomas Schnarr recognized the great effect a skilfully developed exhaust system has on performance output and driving pleasure.

Together with Simon Young, an absolute stainless steel expert, Thomas founded Phoenix Performance Exhaust Ltd in the South West of England to independently develop and produce CARGRAPHIC exhaust systems.
Where regular exhausts at this time often made out of standard steel with no attention to details, CARGRAPHIC stainless steel high performance systems offered a much better performance, a lifetime durability combined with the most beautiful sound.

The development of a stainless steel sport catalytic converter as a direct replacement for the common
ceramic pendants with a much better performance and even with a more environment-friendly emission
output makes CARGRAPHIC to one of the top leading exhaust brands for the Porsche model series and
other high performance brands.

Based on expectations of the performance orientated customer clients of Porsche enthusiasts, CARGRAPHIC
enhanced its program to the now existing product portfolio. In cooperation with leading Porsche race car
teams and Porsche racing series, CARGRAPHIC develops high performance exhaust systems for all air- and water cooled Porsche models starting with optimised motorsport manifold sets up to individual modified silencer systems for highly noise restricted race track requirements. (CARGRAPHIC exhaust system are also the most important components of incredible powerful performance upgrade kits.)