Cournil

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Bernard Cournil

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founding 1958
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Cournil was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Bernard Cournil company from Aurillac (Cantal) began producing automobiles in 1958. UMM from Portugal was a licensee from 1977. In 1980 Société IDMI took over the company and changed the brand name to Autoland in 1983/84 . In 1984 Auverland took over the company and marketed the vehicles as Auverland. The Cournil company is now a car dealership and continues to sell spare parts for the Cournil, UMM and Auverland vehicles.

vehicles

Cournil off-road vehicle with a drill attached

There were SUVs produced. At first they resembled the jeep . A revision followed from 1965, now the vehicles were visually more independent. A four-cylinder engine from Peugeot provided the drive .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
  • Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 1 A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)

Web links

Commons : Cournil  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile