Gurgel

Gurgel
Brazil
http://www.gurgel.com.br/

Gurgel Motors SA was a Brazilian car manufacturer, developed by João Augusto Amaral Gurgel Conrado the engineer. With the proposal to produce vehicles 100% national, businessman set up in 1969, in Cursino avenue in Sao Paulo car factory that bore his name (moved its headquarters to Rio Claro, in 1975). The automaker produced approximately 30,000 genuinely Brazilian vehicles during its 27 year

The Gurgel was founded in 1969 by mechanical engineer and electrician John Conrad Augusto do Amaral Gurgel, who always dreamed of the car brasilian genuinely

The brand saw the Ipanema was used in hostile land and this marked the direction that the company should follow. In this, came the Xavante XT 1972, Now plasteel chassis and suspension developed by John Gurgel and that was the first factory car tested by the military.

Gurgel patented a chassis made of plasteel (which was a union of plastic and steel, that combined high resistance to twisting and difficult deformation ), a plastic body reinforced with fiber-to-glass (PRF)




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