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| Industry | Automotive |
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| Founded | 1 September 1969 |
| Founder | João Augusto Amaral Gurgel |
| Defunct | 30 September 1996 |
| Headquarters | Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil |
Area served | Latin America |
| Products | Automobiles, commercial vehicles |
Number of employees | 1,150 (1989) |
Gurgel Motores (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡuʁˈʒɛw]) 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 Volkswagen Beetle chassis and machinery, but VW bodies and chassis were later replaced by a unique solution made of Plasteel, which consists of fiberglass and steel joined, a system patented by Gurgel. Gurgel also introduced Brazil's first fully domestically designed and manufactured car, the BR-800.