Lafer Indústria e Comércio

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Lafer SA Indústria e Comércio
legal form Sociedade Anônima
founding 1927
Seat São Paulo , Brazil
Branch Furniture , automobiles
Website www.lafer.com.br

MP Lafer
MP Lafer

Lafer SA Indústria e Comércio is a Brazilian company and a former manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in São Paulo in 1927 to manufacture furniture . Percyval Lafer, one of the three brothers who owned the company, developed a car. The first vehicle was presented at a domestic motor show in 1972 and at the Brussels Motor Show in 1973. Series production began in May 1974 at a plant in São Bernardo do Campo . The brand names were Lafer and MP . Vehicle production ended in 1990. A source deviates from the fact that production ran until 2009. A total of over 4,300 vehicles were built.

The company still exists today as a furniture manufacturer.

export

The vehicles were exported to 17 or 24 countries. Kühn from Hamburg and Scheib from Ansbach were the German importers. A total of around 1000 vehicles were exported. Italy accepted most of the vehicles.

vehicles

The first prototype was called MGT . This was the replica of the MG TD . The chassis of the VW Beetle formed the basis . A fiberglass body was mounted on top.

In the production version, the model was called MP Lafer . The air-cooled four - cylinder boxer engine with 1500 cm³ displacement , a carburetor and 52  hp was mounted in the rear and drove the rear wheels. In 1974, after the delivery of the first 40 cars, the vehicles received the larger engine from the VW Brasília with a displacement of 1600 cc and 60 hp.

The MP TI , produced between 1978 and 1990, was a modification of the MP Lafer with the same engine.

From 1986 the prototype MP-TX was developed. It had a water-cooled four - cylinder in- line engine from Volkswagen do Brasil with 1800 cc displacement as the front engine.

From 1976 there was also the Lafer LL for a short time . This was a 2 + 2 seat coupe designed by Rigoberto Soler. The six-cylinder engine with 4100 cm³ displacement, triple carburetor and 200 hp came from the Chevrolet Opala . Only six vehicles were made from this model.

One source also names the Z model as the successor to the Lafer LL .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Lafer; MP Lafer.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 846. (English)

Web links

Commons : Lafer Indústria e Comércio  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bloomberg (accessed September 24, 2016)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Lafer; MP Lafer.
  3. ^ A b c d e George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 846. (English)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o João F. Scharinger: Lexicar Brasil (Portuguese, accessed September 24, 2016)
  5. ↑ a b d'Auto (Dutch, accessed September 24, 2016)
  6. ↑ a b Allcarindex (English, accessed on September 24, 2016)