Beskid was a series of
economy
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hatchback
A hatchback is a car body style, car body configuration with a rear door that swings upward to provide access to the main interior of the car as a cargo area rather than just to a separated trunk. Hatchbacks may feature fold-down second-row sea ...
car
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prototypes in
Poland
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designed by during 1982-1986.
The design team was led by Wiesław Wiatrak who later used the Beskid as his daily car and finally passed it to a museum in Kraków.
The car never went into
mass production
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; However, it is also suggested that the Beskid was in fact a back-up measure if licensing talks were unsuccessful; finally the
Fiat Cinquecento
The Fiat Cinquecento (Type 170) (, ) is a front engine front-wheel-drive, four passenger, three door hatchback city car manufactured and marketed by Fiat from 1991 to 1998 over a single generation.
It was manufactured at Fabryka Samochodów MaŠ...
was produced in FSM. While all seven Beskid prototypes were slated for destruction, six were saved. One was used for a crash test, and the remaining six are located in various institutions in Poland:
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Museum of Technology, Warsaw
National Museum of Technology is a museum in Warsaw, Poland. It was established in 1955. It is located in the Palace of Culture and Science, Palace of Culture & Science.
Exhibits include motorbikes, aeroplanes, 19th century musical boxes, and h ...
- Yellow
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Museum of Municipal Engineering, Kraków in Kraków - Two, white and green
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Opole University of Technology
Opole University of Technology ( Polish name: Politechnika Opolska; sometimes referred to in English as Technical University of Opole) is a university located in Opole, Poland.
The university was founded in 1959 as a consultative branch of Siles ...
- White
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Museum of Technology and Transport
The Museum of Technology and Transport – Art Depot () is Szczecin, Poland was established in 2006. The main themes of it are related to road transport.[body style
Governments and private organizations have developed car classification schemes that are used for various purposes including regulation, description, and categorization of cars.
The International Standard ISO 3833-1977 ''Road vehicles – Type ...]
was patented, but BOSMAL lacked funds for the extension of the patent.
The name comes from the
Beskids
The Beskids or Beskid Mountains (, , , (), ()) are a series of mountain ranges in the Carpathians, stretching from the Czech Republic in the west along the border of Poland with Slovakia up to Ukraine in the east.
The highest mountain in the Be ...
mountains.
External links
BOSMAL website
- history and pictures (English)
References