Puli was a microcar

Microcar

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 made in Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 by HÓDGÉP of Hódmezővásárhely

Hódmezovásárhely

Hódmezővásárhely , Romanian: Ioneşti) is a city in south-east Hungary, on the Great Hungarian Plain, at the meeting point of the Békés-Csanádi Ridge and the clay grassland surrounding the river Tisza...

 from 1986.

The car was 2.46 m long and was assembled using parts made by Škoda

Škoda Auto

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, Lada

Lada

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 and Polski Fiat 126p available at that time in the country. It was propelled by a Diesel

Diesel engine

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 engine of 4 kW. The body was made from reinforced glass fibre. It was intended to be exported mainly to France

France

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 where no driving licence was needed to drive that category of vehicles. The company's profile was agricultural machinery building and did not survive the political-economical transition of Hungary to market economy in the end of the 1980s.

An electrical vehicle was produced in 1991 under the name Puli Pinguin 4.

In 2006 the Puli (car) returned under the ownership of Henrik Harasta. Harasta holds Puli and Wartburg trade marks.

External links

• http://hmi.de/people/tomiak/emobil.html About the electrical vehicle (Site is now offline)