Normally, a journey in a car bodied by the company Binz does not mean anything good for the passenger. This is because the coachbuilding company from Lorch near Stuttgart mainly builds ambulances and hearses, but also police cars, e.g. for the Stuttgart traffic police. Binz was founded in 1936 as Lorcher Karosseriefabrik Binz & Co. by Michael Binz. The main business before the Second World War was the construction of cabriolet bodies, taxis and lorry bodies. After the war, Binz specialised in extended limousines (estate cars) and funeral and ambulance cars. In 1991, Binz founded Binz Ambulance- und Umwelttechnik GmbH in Ilmenau (Thuringia) to build emergency ambulances and VW T4 ambulances. In May 2012, Binz Ilmenau went into insolvency. The insolvency administrator sold the company's assets to the Thai RMA Group. This sale led to a separation of the company activities in Ilmenau and Lorch. In 2015, BINZ Ambulance- und Umwelttechnik GmbH was taken over by the current shareholders (management buy-out). In June 2018, the Lorch-based coachbuilder Binz had to file for insolvency. Binz GmbH & Co. KG in Lorch filed for insolvency on 5 June 2018 despite full order books due to a lack of liquidity. The company was liquidated in January 2019.