The FSC Lublin is a light commercial

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produced by the Polish automaker FSC in

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. Production started in 1993, and was intended to replace the aging Żuk, which was finally discontinued in 1998. The van, known as ''Lublin 33'' was produced until 1995, when

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took control of FSC and renamed it as ''Lublin II''. In 1999 the ''Lublin III'' was put into production. After the

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bankruptcy, the future of the ''Lublin'' brand looked bleak. In 2001 the brand ''Lublin'' was sold to a British company, '' Truck Alliance''. Later the brand was owned by Intrall Polska, a Russo-British company, and the van was sold under the name ''Intrall Lublin''. Later the rights to the model were acquired by

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, which manufactured a small batch of them under Pasagon with a modernized frame and slight changes to the front of the vehicle, made to accommodate a larger engine meeting Euro 5 standards. Later they tried to sell it again under the name of Honker Cargo but with no success. During the later 2000s,

would enter a

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with

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to develop a new commercial vehicle that would replace both the Lublin II and the old

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range, however following GM's acquisition of Daewoo, LDV secured the exclusive rights to the vehicle, purchased the tooling, and moved it from Daewoo's plant in

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to the LDV site in Washwood Heath,

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. The vehicle was eventually launched as the

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in 2004.

Gallery

File:Lublinn.jpg, Daewoo Lublin 3 File:Lublin II.JPG, Lublin II File:Lublin 3Mi Poznań PSM RB1.JPG, Lublin 3Mi after modernization and facelifting in 2005 at

Poznań Motor Show The Poznań Motor Show is the largest Auto show, motor show in Poland. It is organized every year by the Poznań International Fair. Depending on the year, the show is often accompanied by various additional exhibitions, such as a motorcycle sh ...

File:White Lublin Intrall b.jpg, Intrall Lublin 3Mi File:Lubo.jpg, New

Intrall Intrall, or International Truck Alliance, was a Russo-British automotive company headquartered in London, United Kingdom with factories in Poland. In late 2003, the company was bought by Daewoo Motor Poland and operated under the name Intrall Po ...

Lubo was to be launched from the end of 2008 File:Lublin_PTR.jpg, Lublin ambulance File:Intrall Lublin 3 w wersji skrzyniowej.jpg, Intrall Lublin 3 cargo version in front of Chemical Faculty of Gdańsk University of Technology

References

External links

Intrall Polska (Lublin)
Cars of Poland Lublin van Science and technology in Poland {{van-stub