Himmel

Himmel
Logo of Himmel
Country	Germany
Type	Car manufacturer
Founder	Franz Himmel
Status	Active
Appearances	Ridge Racer V Ridge Racer (PSP) Ridge Racer 2 (PSP) Ridge Racer 6 Ridge Racer 7 Ridge Racer Accelerated Ridge Racer 3D Ridge Racer Vita

Himmel (Japanese: ヒンメル) is a German car manufacturer, first appearing in Ridge Racer V. Himmel is famous for their E.O., an air-cooled sports car that have been in production of generations, making them the counterpart of Porsche in the Ridge Racer universe.

The brand was established in Stuttgart, Germany, by a man named Franz Himmel.

Cars

• E.O.: Himmel's most popular air-cooled, rear-engined, rear-wheel drive car, which has been in production and underwent changes in generations of production. The E.O.'s depicted in the series are in their fifth, sixth and seventh generations, as seen in Ridge Racer V, PSP and 6.
• 490B: Himmel's futuristic concept car, featuring an arc-shaped body whose shape is derived from Himmel's "H" logo, and is an electric vehicle with an inline-6 as a range extender.

Trivia

• Himmel is German, Swedish and Danish for "sky" or "heaven".
  • This explains the company's logo, a pair of wings attached to a capital H.
• Himmel was the only manufacturer that did not have a Special Machine in Ridge Racer V.
• Himmel is one of the very few manufaturers to have only one car in their line up, not including Special Machines. 
• In Ridge Racer 7's news tickers, there is a musical festival named after the founder called the "Franz Himmel Symphony Orchestra", which hails from Stuttgart, and that one of their musicals is called "The Boxster's Roar", a sly reference to Himmel's similarity to Porsche.
• The founder's name, Franz Himmel, is likely a play on Ferdinand Porsche, and perhaps even Franz Ferdinand (as Franz is taken as the first name instead of Ferdinand).
• Himmel is one of two brands in the series to feature electric vehicles (in this case, the 490B), the other being Terrazi, although the 490B differentiates itself from the Terrazi Destroyer as it uses an inline-6 engine as a range extender.
• The racing numbers of the 490B's liveries in Ridge Racer 6 reference different generations of Porsche 911s, with 993, 996, 911 and 964.