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Gurgel was the brand of Gurgel Veículos, a Brazilian automobile manufacturer, named for its founder, João do Amaral Gurgel. The company was founded in 1969 and specialized in off-road vehicles, many of which were named after Brazil's native tribes. Early models were fiberglass bodies installed on Volkswagen Beetle (fusca) chasses and machinery. Gurgel introduced Brazil's first domestically designed car, the BR-800, but went out of business in the 1990s. The real cause of Gurgel's bankrupcy was bad decisions with new politic, from Brazil government.Whyle under total protecionism(1969-1989), Gurgel had prosperity, having as much as 1% of brazilian car's market.In late 1980 decade, then brazilian president José Sarney gave a very great loan (without guarantees) to Gurgel, from brazilian state bank.José Sarney was so generous with Gurgel, that he had IPI (a brazilian value tax )to others cars between 37% and 42%, while Gurgel BR-800 had the same IPI(a brazilian value tax) of just 5% to BR-800.Along with BR-800 Gurgel also had the production of Gurgel Carajás, a "jeep" 4 x 2 weel drive. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1200x900, 108 KB)A Gurgel jeep. ...
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The end for Gurgel began when president Fernando Collor went to office in march, 1990.Fernando Collor opened brazilian car market to foreign cars.Even then having a tax to foreign cars of 85%, the Gurgel carajás were more expensive than Lada Niva, a jeep from then Soviet Union.The Gurgel's "jeeps" went out of the market. The last Gurgel Carajás was produced in 1991. In 1990, Fernando Collor also reduced the IPI(a brazilian value tax) of Uno mille to 20% and sent the same level of tax to BR-800. Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello (born August 12, 1949) was president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992. ...
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Beyond any doubt, Uno mille was more powerfull and spacious than Gurgel BR-800.The price of both models then was similar.BR-800's sells droped to almost nothing in 1990.In 1992, Gurgel lauched a car based on BR-800, the Supermini.Such as its similar model, the Supermini's sells were very small.Fernando Collor refused to give a loan(without guarantees) of about US$80,000,000 from BNDES to Gurgel. Even so, Gurgel got two loans; both of them from state's governments.One from BEC (then bank of brazilian state of Ceará ) and other loan from BANESPA - then bank of brazilian state of São Paulo.Again, both loans hadn't any guarantee.Even with these generous loans, the Gurgel's sells remained very small.Just about 1,500 Supermini Gurgel's cars were produced, in 1992 and 1993. In december, 1992, Gurgel didn't payed all the salaries of its workers.On first months of 1993, Gurgel stopped all the production. In 1995, the final Gurgel's bankrupcy was decree.The Gurgel's debt only with banks was about R$210,000,000 or US$100,000,000.Gurgel's patrimony was less than 3% of its debt.In fact, Gurgel's patrimony hadn't value even to pay the former workers.A brazilian site http://www.gurgelbrasil.com/GURGEL-Jornal-do-Carro_PAG1.htm claims that Gurgel's debt was about US$1,200,000,000.Between 1969 and 1993, Gurgel launched about 12 new vehicles.One of them was the first and of course last, brazilian electric car in commercial production; a complete commercial failure.With the sole exception of "Xavante X" series produced mainly in 1970 decade, no Gurgel's product had any commercial sucess.The "Tocantins jeep" was transformed into "Carajás jeep".Carajás "jeep" was so expensive and bad, that when the importantion of Lada Niva was freed in 1990, by Fernando Collor Gurgel Carajás went out of production in a few months.Lada Niva got almost all Gurgel Carajás' market even Lada Niva having poor reputation about quality, low quality finish and an importation's tax of 85% in 1990.Even with these problems, Lada Niva was better and cheaper than Gurgel Carajás.Lada Niva also was a real 4 x 4 drive, while all Gurgel's jeeps were 4 x 2 . Against Uno mille Gurgel BR-800 and Gurgel Supermini were both worse, being far less spacious, potents and giving far more confort ,than any Gurgel's cars. Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello (born August 12, 1949) was president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992. ...
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Gurgel's founder and owner João do Amaral Gurgel was born in 1926.Some years after Gurgel's bankrupcy, João do Amaral Gurgel got Alzheimer's desease.He became mad and then he became useless person, being cared by relatives.In his last visit to the ruins of his former factory, João do Amaral Gurgel cryed very much.
Important models - Gurgel Moplast
- Gurgel Ipanema
- Gurgel Xavante X10
- Gurgel Xavante X11
- Gurgel Xavante X12
- Gurgel Tocantins
- Gurgel Carajás
- Gurgel X15
- Gurgel X20
- Gurgel E500
- Gurgel G800
- Gurgel XEF
- Gurgel BR-800
- Gurgel Supermini
- Gurgel Motomachine
- Gurgel TA-01
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