Borgward (Dinborg Argentine Industries Automotive S.A.C.I.F)

Dinborg Argentine Industries Automotive S.A.C.I.F was an Argentine manufacturer of automobiles. The brand name is Borgward.   

History

The state enterprise DINFIA that the Graciela produced, and Borg Ward founded on 1 December 1958, the Joint Undertaking in Córdoba, Argentina. In 1960, they started with the production of automobiles as Borgward. 

Dinborg made the chassis and bodies and glass with also the related engines, transmissions while other chassis parts like the independent rear suspension came from Germany. The car model was the Borgward Isabella as a two-door sedan. A water-cooled four-cylinder engine with a 75 mm bore, 84.5 mm stroke 1493 cc displacement and 60 hp power drove the vehicles. The vehicles with 260 cm wheelbase were 440 cm long, 176 cm wide and 150 cm high.  

In addition, there was the van Borgward B 611 with various body types. This had a water-cooled four-cylinder D4M Borg Ward diesel engine with 78 mm bore, 92 mm stroke, 1758 cc and 42 hp also petrol variant four-cylinder in-line with a displacement of 1,490cc.  The vehicles were 520 cm long, 210 cm wide and 218 cm high with a wheelbase of 260 cm. Between 1960 and 1962 1296 were built. 

By 1962 The end of Borg Ward led to the end of the Argentine production, around 3000 vans and cars in total were created. IKA (Industrias Kaiser Argentina SA) took over with their own version.