Selvagem Indústria e Comércio

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Oliveira & Neves Ltda.
Selvagem Industria & Comércio Ltda.
legal form Ltda.
founding 1967
Seat Parnamirim , Brazil
Branch Automobiles
Website selvagembuggy.com.br

Selvagem buggy

Selvagem Industria & Comércio Ltda. , previously Oliveira & Neves Ltda. , is a Brazilian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Marcos José Oliveira das Neves founded Oliveira & Neves Ltda in 1967 . near Parnamirim as a car repair shop . In 1973 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was initially ONN . In 1976 the company was recognized as an automobile manufacturer by Volkswagen do Brasil and was then supplied with new chassis without bodies from VW. In 1986 the name was changed to Selvagem Indústria & Comércio Ltda. The brand name then changed to Selvagem . The company has been manufacturing its own chassis since 1992 after production of the VW Beetle in Brazil was discontinued. Unlike many of its competitors, the company doesn't offer kits .

vehicles

The first vehicle had a structure made of tubes on the uncut chassis of a VW Beetle.

A little later a VW buggy appeared with the ONN-600 . Its chassis was shortened by 30 cm. The open, doorless four-seater body was made of fiberglass . An air-cooled four-cylinder - piston engine with a choice of 1300 cc displacement or 1600 cc was mounted in the rear and drive to the rear wheels. From 1986, the name was Selvagem and from the 1990s Selvagem L .

In the early 1990s, the new Selvagem S model added to the range. It was the same vehicle length, but with square headlights and other changes.

Around 1992, a station wagon and a small truck with a front engine from VW were built on its own chassis , both of which remained prototypes .

Water-cooled engines from VW have also been used since around 2001 .

In 2004 the models Sol with four doors and Sol S appeared , which were shorter and did not have doors. They were more like the jeep . Air and water-cooled engines were installed in the stern.

In 2013, the HL with a water-cooled rear engine from the VW Gol was added.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m João F. Scharinger: Lexicar Brasil (Portuguese, accessed on November 1, 2016)