STARD
(Stohl Advanced Research and Development)
Is a highly skilled research and development company,
part of Stohl Group.

WE ARE
STARD

 
STARD (Stohl Advanced Research and Development) is a highly skilled research and development company, part of Stohl Group. While the successes of Stohl Group´s Racing brand (Stohl Racing) in Rally and Racing display the well-known part of some STARD projects, STARD is operating in all kinds of technology driven business fields, covering a wide spread variety of projects. The core of stard is a team of highly skilled and uncompromisingly dedicated engineers, which enables us to act as an „R&D Task force“ in the service of our customers.
Based on our passionate staff, combined with STARD´s above average flexibility we handle all research and development tasks with an unmet level of effectivity and output quality, resulting in the attribute “advanced”, not only to be related to the technologies we develop, but also the way we approach even the smallest project.
By assigning STARD to process, support or consult your undertaking, you will become convinced of our customer service principles from first contact, over ongoing communication until the final result delivery and continuous customer after care.

The beauty of engineering

Our engineering team with knowledge spread
over different special fields of applied
sciences, turns STARD into a true “turnkey”
R&D provider. The type of services ranges
from consulting, engineer support to entire
developments, where we can cover all required
stages of the project process.

MANUFACTURING & PROTOTYPES

Prototype and Small Series Production
Components, Assemblies and Complete Vehicles/Units
Metallics, Plastics, Composite, Special processes (3D printing, CNC)

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CONCEPTION

Design Concepts
Target Definition & Project Planning
Predictive Conception (Simulation)
- MBS (Multi Body Systems)
- CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
- FEA (Finite Element Analysis)

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DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Entire Vehicle Development (Conventional & Electric)
Engine Hardware and Control (Software, Calibration)
Powertrain Development
Electric Vehicle Systems
Chassis & Suspension (Kinematics & Component Design)
Electric and Electronic Components & Systems
Body Design & Development (Composites)
Reverse Engineering

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TESTING & OPTIMIZATION

Engine Dynamometer (Calibration & Load Profile Long Runs)
Entire Drivetrain Dyno (incl. individual wheel load simulation)
Complete Chassis Dyno (incl. Wind simulation up to 200 km/h)
Multi Post, K&C & Inertia Measurements

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STARD
dedicated to advanced technology
company, part of Stohl Group.

OUR
PROJECTS

 
STARD (Stohl Advanced Research and Development) is a highly specialized technology development company, part of Stohl Group. While the successes of Stohl Group´s Racing brand (Stohl Racing) in Rally and Racing display the well-known part of some STARD projects, STARD is operating in all kinds of technology driven business fields, covering a wide spread variety of projects. The core of STARD is composed by a compact selection of highly skilled and uncompromisingly dedicated team of engineers, which enables us to provide our customers the services of an effective R&D task force.
Based on our passionate staff, combined with STARD´s above average flexibility we handle all research and development tasks with an unmet level of effectivity and output quality, resulting in the attribute “advanced”, not only to be related to the technologies we develop, but also the way we approach even the smallest project.
By assigning STARD to process, support or consult your undertaking, you will become convinced of our customer service principles from first contact, over ongoing communication until the final result delivery and continuous customer after care.

RX Supercar
FIA World Rallycross Supercar

The headline says it all. STARD is proud to present the latest development, targeted to compete in one of today´s most thrilling action packed motorsports. The FIA World Rallycross Championship. Entered by the World RX Team Austria, the car has proven to be one of the fastest machines in the circus capable to compete with the fully works supported cars, scoring numerous top 3 heat results, top 5 overall calssification results, and a number of national/regional race vitories.

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High Performance
Variant Road Car

The STARD Subaru BRZ „STI“ Turbo was developed to investigate the possibility and potential of the Subaru BRZ chassis (which is same as the Toyota GT86) to incorporate a more powerful turbocharged engine. The base car is powered by a normally aspirated 2.0 200 hp flat four engine. For this high performance variant prototpye, STARD has used the latest Subaru 2.0 T-GDI flat four with 300 hp.

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FIA R4 Category Rally Car

Another works project for STARD. Subaru Tecnica International has assigned STARD to develop the Subaru Impreza WRX STI Spec C R4, which then hase been entered by Stohl Racing in the WRC, IRC and ERC rally championships worldwide. Further, numerous customer versions have battled successfully against the competiotion in various national and regional championships.

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Electric Integrated
Drivetrain (IDT)

STARD's latest component development Integrated Drive train (IDT) for electric vehicles features a unique package, housing 2 mechanically independent electric motors, 2 Inverters, 2 planetary gears and the complete cooling package for the entire system in one compact cast aluminium housing.

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Sequential 4-wheel
active Torque Control

Set to challenge the tasks around 4 individually driven wheels, STARD and the Technical University of Vienna´s Department for Vehicle Dynamics have started a 3-year government funded (FFG) research project in order to research and develop innovative control strategies for vehicles with 4 individually driven wheels.

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Active Air
Suspension Control System

Planned to be used in passenger, SUV and sports car suspension systems of tomorrow, STARD is involved in the development of innovative Air Suspension Control Systems for high performance automotive applications.

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Monovalent CNG
High Performance Powertrain

In order to meet expectations in modern motorsport regarding emissions and other general environmental aspects, back in 2006 STARD has started a project together with OMV (Austrian Minerals Federation), to get not only rally sports greener.

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STARD
gives you instant access to our engineers and experience
who are working almost every hour.

CONTACT

STARD
part of Stohl Group GmbH

Headquarters
Eurostraße 5
2301 Groß Enzersdorf
Austria
Production Site
Baudissgasse 10
1110 Wien
Austria

T: +43 2249 28050
F: +43 2249 28903

E: office@stard.at
F: facebook.com/stard.austria