The Gurgel Delta was a Brazilian car designed by

Gurgel Gurgel Motores () was a Brazilian automobile manufacturer, named after its founder João do Amaral Gurgel. The company was founded in 1969 and first specialised in buggies and off-road vehicles. Early models were fiberglass bodies installed on V ...

, never sold in commercial market. The project was described by Gurgel himself as the true popular car, citing

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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

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), front wheel drive (no drive shaft), weighing 550 kg. Just a few prototypes of Gurgel Delta were produced.

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