Société Française Kikos

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Société Française Kikos
legal form Société
founding 1979
resolution 1985
Seat Antibes , France
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The Société Française Kikos was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in June 1979 and started producing automobiles in 1980. The location was at 34 rue de la Touraque in Antibes . The brand name was Kikos . Production ended in 1985.

vehicles

Kikos T.040 (1981)

Initially, the company manufactured small cars. They were tricycles with a single front wheel. An air-cooled motor from Motobécane with a displacement of 50 cm³ and a water-cooled engine from Zündapp with a displacement of 125 cm³ were available for the drive . The engine was mounted in the rear and drove the left rear wheel. A special feature was an automatic transmission . An open and a closed body were on offer. Both bodies were made of plastic .

The IVE-RS 82 was created from 1982 . This was a sports car . The engine came from the Renault 12 and other parts from the Alpine A 110 . The following model IVE-RS 85 was based on the second generation Renault 5 .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).
  • René Bellu: Automobilia. Edition 74. Toutes les voitures françaises 1980. Salon 1979. Histoire & Collections, Paris 2005. (French)
  • René Bellu: Automobilia. Edition 90. Toutes les voitures françaises 1981. Salon 1980. Histoire & Collections, Paris 2008. (French)
  • René Bellu: Automobilia. Edition 80. Toutes les voitures françaises 1982. Salon 1981. Histoire & Collections, Paris 2006. (French)
  • Rudolf Heitz (editor-in-chief): Auto catalog 1986. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1985.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).