Tvornica Automobila Sarajevo

Tvornica Automobila Sarajevo
legal form	doo
founding	1972
resolution	1992
Reason for dissolution	Bosnian War
Seat	Vogošća
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

A Yugoslav police car ( VW Golf I ) in the streets of Mostar , 1985. The "TAS logo" is clearly visible next to the VW logo.

The VW Beetle
1200 J manufactured by TAS .

VW Caddy from TAS

Tvornica Automobila Sarajevo was a Yugoslav manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

UNIS was formed in 1967 from four armaments companies. One of them was Pretis , which manufactured motorcycles and automobiles under licenses from NSU-Motorenwerke . In 1972 UNIS and Volkswagen AG founded Tvornica Automobila Sarajevo for the production of automobiles. The company headquarters was in Vogošća near Sarajevo . The brand name of the vehicles was TAS . Production ended in 1992 due to the Bosnian War . A total of over 300,000 vehicles were produced. In 1998 Volkswagen founded the new company Volkswagen Sarajevo at the same location .

vehicles

First the VW Beetle was built. He received the designations 1200 J and 1300 J . In 1976 VW Golf I and later VW Jetta I added to the range. There was a choice of four-cylinder engines with a displacement of 1100 cc and 1300 cc . The company later produced the VW Caddy , VW Golf II and VW Jetta II . The Golf and Jetta had the VW trademark and the TAS logo on the radiator grille.

literature

Hans-Rüdiger Etzold , The Beetle, Volume IV, 1995 ( ISBN 3-7168-1890-9 ), page 161
Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
Michael Dünnebier, Eberhard Kittler: Passenger cars of socialist countries. Transpress Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-344-00382-8 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ TAS Tvornica Automobila Sarajevo doo , bloomberg.com, Retrieved July 3, 2019.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
^ History of UNIS ( Memento of October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English, accessed on May 9, 2013)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Dünnebier, Kittler: Passenger cars of socialist countries.

[1] TAS Tvornica Automobila Sarajevo doo , bloomberg.com, Retrieved July 3, 2019.

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .

[3] History of UNIS ( Memento of October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English, accessed on May 9, 2013)

[Personenkraftwagen_sozialistischer_Länder-4] Dünnebier, Kittler: Passenger cars of socialist countries.