Autoar 1950-1951 - Italian roots
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There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. One of these lost brands is the company Automotores Argentinas, Autoar for short. Its founder, Piero Dusio, also founded the company Cisitalia Argentina in 1951. He had emigrated to Argentina, where he had built up Autoar, and after Autoar's financial collapse, he returned to his home country of Italy.
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After the ambitious project for a GP racing car with four-wheel drive had driven him to ruin, Piero Dusio, sports and racing car manufacturer from Turin and founder of the Cisitalia brand, emigrated to Argentina. In 1949, he founded the company Automotores Argentinas, or Autoar for short, in Tigre near Buenos Aires. From 1950, this company built a six- to seven-seater three-door estate and a three-seater pick-up. The radiator grille was similar to that of the Fiat 1400 from the same era. A special feature of the box frame chassis was the independent front suspension with trailing arms and transverse torsion suspension based on the Porsche principle. The engine was the 2.2-liter four-cylinder from Willys-Overland do Brasil (the Fiat 1900 engine was also offered).
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