Interstate Motor Vehicle

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Interstate Motor Vehicle
legal form
founding 1980
resolution 1985
Seat Pretoria , South Africa
Branch Automobiles

Interstate Motor Vehicle was a South African manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company from Pretoria continued the production of automobiles from 1980, which had previously been manufactured by Interstate International from Swaziland . The brand name was still Interstate . Production ended in 1985. In contradiction to this, one source states that the production first took place in South Africa and then in Swaziland.

vehicles

The only model was an off-road vehicle . There was a choice of four - cylinder petrol engines from Ford , General Motors and Peugeot , six-cylinder petrol engines from Chrysler , Datsun , Ford, General Motors and Mercedes-Benz, and diesel engines from Mercedes-Benz. The transverse installation of the engines was unusual. An automatic transmission was standard. The vehicles were available with two different wheelbases and with five different bodies.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Interstate Trax.
  2. ^ A b c d George Nick Georgano (editor-in-chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 758-759. (English)
  3. ↑ a b d'Auto (Dutch, accessed June 26, 2016)
  4. ↑ a b c Allcarindex (English, accessed on June 26, 2016)