Gurgel Delta
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Gurgel Delta was a Brazilian car designed by Gurgel
Gurgel
Gurgel was the brand name of Gurgel Motores , a Brazilian automobile manufacturer, named after its founder João do Amaral Gurgel. The company was founded in 1969 and first specialized in buggies and off-road vehicles...

, never sold in commercial market.

The project was described by Gurgel himself as the true popular car, citing Supermini
Gurgel Supermini
The Gurgel Supermini was a small Brazilian car produced between 1992 and 1994.Compared to the Gurgel BR-800, it had better finish, improvements on the body and the engine got larger intake valves, giving more 4cv of power - thus rendering 36cv. The horizontal windows were also replaced by vertical...

as "a small car, economic and easy to park, for who do not set comfort aside" .

Compared to Supermini, Delta had new gearboxes (made by machinery acquired by Gurgel from Citroën), front wheel drive (no drive shaft), weighting 550kg. Just a few prototypes of Gurgel Delta were produced.

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