The FSC Lublin was a light commercial

van A van is a type of road vehicle used for transporting goods or people. Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and bigger than a common car. There is some varying in the scope of the word across th ...

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 DZT Tymińscy, which manufactured a small batch of them under Pasagon with the 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 File:White Lublin Intrall b.jpg, Intrall Lublin 3Mi File:Lubo.jpg, New

Intrall Intrall, or International Truck Alliance, is a Russo-British automotive company with headquarters in London, England, and manufacturing in Poland. At the end of 2003, the company acquired from Intrall Treasury factory of Daewoo Motor Poland in ...

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