Autoar (Automotores Argentinos SA)

Automotores Argentinos SA was an Argentine manufacturer of automobiles. the brand name was Autoar.

History

The company was based in Tigre near Buenos Aires. The production of automobiles began in around 1950 with also commercial vehicles made. The brand name was among others Autoar. Initially Fiat vehicles were produced under license. By 1959, there was an agreement with the NSU Motorenwerke, followed in 1960 the licensed production of the NSU Prinz This had a two cylinder, four-stroke engine with 75 mm bore, 66 mm stroke, 583 cc and 30 hp power. The vehicles were at a wheelbase of 2000 mm 3145 mm long, 1420 mm wide and 1350 mm high. The empty weight was given as 506 kg. From NSU Prinz total vehicles 2432 made. By 1961, now with its own brand name for passenger cars from the sedan as the brand Autoar and the derived vans and pick-ups about 1,500 vehicles developed. 

From 1950 commercial vehicles. With a 2199 cc  65hp displacement engine was from the US Willys Jeep . in 1951 was followed by a two-door sedan and cabriolet version with the same engine.  Later, a Simca-Vedette of 2351 cc and 85hp in the 1950s, the sedan was discontinued and instead, on this basis, a combi and a pick-up available for the combi, a four-cylinder engine from Fiat with 70 hp 1900 cc capacity was fitted. 

Between 1958 and 1962 there was with the panorámico a minibus, a pick-up and a van in front-wheel design. The panorámico created 597 minibuses, 372 pick-ups and 103 vans, in total, so 1072 vehicles.

By In 1962 the automobile production ended.