80's Gurgel Vehicles

[HarleyEarl]

Very interesting design for the time. The '86 Gurgel G-800.

A little coupe from Gurgel.

[rkmdogs]

Re: Gurgel....

Shades of a Corvair ramp-side van that got mated to an Avalanche!

What country claimed this "dream" truck, Harley?

[HarleyEarl]

That would be Brazil.....not a good sounding name. Sounds like choking.

[99camaroSS]

ok who speaks brazilian? i wanna know what the captions say

[mute]

ok who speaks brazilian? i wanna know what the captions say

its portugese and im not good enough in writing to say that i can tell ya what it means...im still learning tho

ask trincriabob

[Flybrian]

Its out of business now. They were founded in 1969 and made mainly offroad vehicles but did also produce three or four car lines, the above was one of them. The BR-800 was Brazil's first indigenous car...

I guess its not hard to see why they don't make cars anymore.

That XEF coupe above? God...brought enough taillamps for everyone? Puke.

[XP715]

Must be designs like this that make Brazil the major player in the world automotive market that we know today. Some say they look like $h!, while others say they look like $h!. And, still others say they look like $h!. Not me, though; I wish I had ten Gurgels.

[pow]

The extended "cab" G800 looks cool... it reminds me of a Renault concept.

[ocnblu]

Honestly... the trucks look like rebodied VW Kombis, and the coupe has vents below the rear bumper... a rebodied VW Type 1? In trying to decipher the text... does it say "air cooled 1.6L"? Sounds an awful lot like a VW to me.

[chris]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurgel

the early models were just rebodied VWs.

[Sixty8panther]

Jeezus!

The G800 has stacked headlights so you KNOW it's a great truck!

THe XEF on the other hand looks like it's bordering on copywright infringement of the MB SL300/500/600 of the 80s in a really gross and hideous way.

[CARBIZ]

The G800 looks like an early Ridgeline....don't tell Motor Trend.. it'll be Truck of the Year.

[Camino LS6]

The coupe looks like an old BMW 2002 that had an unfortunate run-in with a trash compactor and then had Benz taillights glued onto it.

[HarleyEarl]

The G800 looks like an early Ridgeline....don't tell Motor Trend.. it'll be Truck of the Year.

Now that's funny.

[Petra]

I just like the name. For some reason, "Gurgel" strikes me as a wildly hilarious name for, well... anything!