Automobiles Buffalo

Automobiles Buffalo
legal form
founding	1969
resolution	1974
Seat	Strasbourg , France
management	Roland Beilé and André Koenig
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Automobiles Buffalo was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Roland Beilé became aware of buggies during a stay in the USA . After his return, he founded the company in Strasbourg with André Koenig in 1969 and began developing automobiles. The first presentation took place on March 11, 1970. The brand name was Buffalo . The homologation did not take place until June 1972. Production ended in May 1974. A total of around 300 vehicles were built. Sarap took over the concept and marketed it as Sarap Buffalo .

vehicles

The company made buggies. The engine was in the stern. A four-cylinder engine from Renault provided the drive . There was a choice of engines from the Renault 8 with a displacement of 1100 cm³ and the Renault 16 with a displacement of 1600 cm³.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• René Bellu: Automobilia. Issue 86. Toutes les voitures françaises 1971. Salon 1970. Histoire & Collections, Paris 2007. (French)
• René Bellu: Automobilia. Issue 76. Toutes les voitures françaises 1972. Salon 1971. Histoire & Collections, Paris 2005. (French)
• René Bellu: Automobilia. Issue 92. Toutes les voitures françaises 1973. Salon 1972. Histoire & Collections, Paris 2008. (French)

Web links

• The history of Automobiles Buffalo (French, accessed November 3, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
2. ↑ Bellu: Toutes les voitures françaises 1973.