As a Brazilian and a conoisseur of Paratis, I have some things to add. The Gol family (Gol, Voyage - the Fox on US -, Parati - the Fox Wagon on US - and Saveiro, the UTE) got a facelift in 1991, when the “squarey” front was changed to the “chinesinha”, or chinese, with narrower head lights. This is a ‘91, but US spec,…
With all the current discussions about “urban mobility”, “driver safety”, “enviromentally friendly” and so on, I can’t see why stow-and-go electric microcars aren’t being made for crowded cities.
This car stuck on the edge of a highway overpass makes my palms sweaty
You’re welcome!! The VW Gol and, consequently, the Voyage (sedan), Parati (wagon) and Saveiro (small pickup truck or ute) Mk.I was an entirely Brazilian project. As far as styling goes, it drew some inspiration from the Scirocco and, to a lesser extent, the Rabbit. But it was built over a platform developed here, so…
Nope, 1.8l here! Also it’s nice to add that the Mk.II Parati 1.0 was only released with a 16 valve turbocharged 1 liter engine.
Dude, it’s a shooting brake! Just kidding, the side window is a single piece of glass. That black thingy is a structural pillar.
The Parati is the wagon version of the VW Gol, for the Latin American market. The Mk.I Voyage and Parati were exported to US and Canada as the VW Fox. Mine is a Mk.II, also called bola (ball, in English, because it was such a departure from the boxy design of the Mk.I).
For what I had read on both Jalopnik comments and on Oppo posts, the Brazilian and American views on buying cars from distant places are very different. In this very post I’m reading stories about people who traveled hundreds of miles to buy cars. Even though there are some people who also do this in Brazil,…
What about a Honda CBR900RR swapped Maluch?
A car-parade is called a carreata in Portuguese, and the hupkonzert can be translated as buzinaço in Camões’ language ;)
This trend wasn’t only with big pickup trucks (the notion of what a full-size, small, big and medium pickup trucks are different between the US and Brazil). Many VW Saveiros, Ford Pampas and, to a lesser extent, Fiat Fiorinos and Stradas were also modified to be double cab:
The coolest thing about the Brasinca Mangalarga is the fact Chevrolet liked it so much that it became the de facto Chevrolet Veraneio Mk.II!
We aptly call this a cascombo between my gaming pals, casco being shell in Portuguese.
Cool!!! I had my fingers crossed hoping McLaren’s car would be orange, and here it is. What a beauty!
The Kestrel Hemp Biocomposite Electric Car’s body panels, ‘mon
Ok, not a factory option, but the Youabian Puma is certainly the worst way to ruin an otherwisely perfectly fine Volvo C70
Not neccessarily. During the 80's and 90's you could buy either ethanol or gasoline cars until VW introduced the Gol Totalflex in 2003, the first flexifuel vehicle (now every car is flexifuel, which is crap). There’s no much difference in reliability between ethanol and gasoline powered cars.
LOL, but that’s useful on essentially all capital cities. It’s worse in Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre, and now even Florianópolis where I live is getting dangerous too. These days a drug cartel from São Paulo that’s trying to install themselves here and overrun the competition from the local cartels tried to lock…
They’re actually VW Voyages (and the wagons, VW Paratis) exported from Brazil. I’m from Brazil, and here these cars are truly bulletproof. We have three on our family (my parents have two, I have one), and we put easily some 500k miles on the three combined since we bought each one.
What about a VW Fox? These things are cheap, look good, get a great mileage, they’re stupidly easy to wrench and are bulletproof.
