Israel Cars

[jimm]

Sorry, not much information. Everything that was found was rom non-English site, enjoy ;)

SABRA (1975 - 1982)

Sabra Carmel 12, Israel 1967
http://auta5p.car.cz/katalog/sabra/carmel_01.jpg
Sabra Carmel 1300, Israel 1973
http://auta5p.car.cz/katalog/sabra/carmel_02.jpg
Sabra Gilboa TR 12/50, Israel 1967
http://auta5p.car.cz/katalog/sabra/gilboa_02.jpg
Sabra Gilboa 1300, Israel 1973
http://auta5p.car.cz/katalog/sabra/gilboa_01.jpg
Sabra Sussita, Israel 1963
http://auta5p.car.cz/katalog/sabra/sussita_01.jpg
Sabra Sussita 12, Israel 1967
http://auta5p.car.cz/katalog/sabra/sussita_02a.jpg
http://auta5p.car.cz/katalog/sabra/sussita_02.jpg
http://auta5p.car.cz/katalog/sabra/sussita_02b.jpg
Sabra Sussita 1300, Israel 1973
http://auta5p.car.cz/katalog/sabra/sussita_03.jpg
Sabra Sport GT, Israel 1965
http://auta5p.car.cz/katalog/sabra/sport_02.jpg
http://www.motorbase.com/pictures/contributions/990720//std_60s_sabra_sport.jpg
http://www.motorbase.com/uploads/2003/11/07/fs_sabra_papy_1.jpg

ROM :D (Izrael, 1975-1982)

Rom 1300, Izrael 1977
http://auta5p.car.cz/katalog/rom/rom_1300_01.jpg

[RoM]

LOL!!! I didnt know there was a car named ROM!!! ROFL!!!!

The car seems nice! ;) thanks for the post

[TheBaseTower]

LOL cool i didnt know ''we'' made all these cars.........

[TeLaVivi]

Cool, the sports model is really wild :D

:lol: Susita sport, what a joke :lol::lol:.

[jimm]

Some info about Sabra Sport GT:

A well-engineered Ford-special, the Reliant Sabre was born in 1961 when the British Reliant company, maker of lightweight three-wheelers teamed up with Autocars of Israel. Autocars bought the rights to Lesley Ballamay's ladder frame chassis and one of Ashley's fibreglass bodies in order to make an instant sports car to sell to America. Reliant engineered the car with 1703 cc Ford Consul engine and supplied the kits to Israel where Autocars assembled them.
Israelic build Sabras are chassis number 4xxx and they where build from 200 kits produced by the Tamworth factory and send to Autocars (aka Sabra) It is not reported how many of these cars where ever produced.
Reliant Sabre 4: 208 were built in chassis ranging from 200001 to 200208
Reliant Sabre 6: (SS300xxx), 77 built (not including the three Sabre-6 look-alike Sabre-4 with shortened nose)
Autocars wasn't prepared in time to assemble the kits so the production and export of the Sabras started and did run for a while at the Reliant factory with the cars never seeing Israel at all!
From 1962 the vulgar nose treatment was chopped and a GT version was offered. This updated version was also offered by a six-cylinder Ford Zephyr image. But it costed nearly the same as an Austin-Healey 3000 so it was not a success at all. In 1964 debuted the successor of Sabre, named Scimitar.
1960 Reliant Sabre Convertible. Chassis No. 1 prototype car. Wire wheels, manual gears, finished in powder blue with dark blue leather piped tight blue.
http://www.team.net/www/ktud/jpgz/sabra2.jpg
http://www.team.net/www/ktud/jpgz/sabra1.jpg
http://www.pumacars.com/CarShows/HeartofBucks/Sabra_1.jpg

[Azazel]

the funny part is had it been done now, with carbon fiber instead of fiberglass, we'd pull it through.

Nah, actually that's sad. :(

[Benni]

I never thought about cars from Israel. This Sabra Sport GT looks quite nice.
However, the Carmel and the Gilboa look like the Eastern-German Trabant ("Trabbi"), which one can fortunatly hardly see on the streets anymore - their exhaust gases smell like... :dizzy: !

[jimm]

Something new and useful:
http://austinrover.mg-rover.org/index.htm?awisraelf.htm

[Jozef Neefs]

Jimm
Noticed you visited my page.
Been checking my pictures, guess two or three Sabra's you have pictures of are unknown to me.
For the other readers: see www.sabra.yucom.be

[jmancuso]

However, the Carmel and the Gilboa look like the Eastern-German Trabant ("Trabbi")

lol, i was thinking the same thing.

[Awais]

they're so ugly, i have a solution to get rid off them: blow them up!

[SydneyDude]

they're so ugly, i have a solution to get rid off them: blow them up!

Ive got a better solution... Blow yourself up!! :runaway:

[Awais]

If that is the solution to get rid off many of those *****, then fine: i'm in the game

[SydneyDude]

If that is the solution to get rid off many of those *****, then fine: i'm in the game

lol, and you wonder why ...........


You're gone buddy!

[[Mak.kabI]]

Why did Israel stopped make own cars?

[83Appak]

']Why did Israel stopped make own cars?


Because it was a time where everyone made cars.

Now we source them, cause we are rich

[Hebrewtext]

']Why did Israel stopped make own cars?


I heard that the main reason was due to low selling rates in asmall market of atiny country so it wasn't so profitable.

[PILMAN]

AIL is one of the active car companys currently in Israel I believe. Do you have pictures of cars made from AIL? Good pictures by the way though I can't say I like the cars designs too much except that one sports car.

*EDIT: didn't realize this thread is from 2004!

[Shohad]

^^ Nothing changed man :lol:

[sharpie20]

Do they make any modern cars?

[Kappa21]

Do they make any modern cars?


No. They went out of business i think.
They might make car parts or something like that.

Israel moved from a place wheres it cheap to producde quality cars to a place where they demand "quality" (and i put it in quotes) cars from the far east (Malaysia, China, Japan, Korea)

[Gendo]

That's too bad Kappa21. I wanted to see the new models.

[livni]

israel makes great cars - humvee cars, also top of the line buses.

[Kappa21]

i doubt it...

Israel might have a engineering firm that makes prototypes and sells it to Car companies, but thats about it..

[livni]

^^ Doubt what you want, Merkavim makes great buses.. so we can make cars

[livni]

for you kappa

http://www.merkavim.co.il/

[LtBk]

No. They went out of business i think.
They might make car parts or something like that.

Israel moved from a place wheres it cheap to producde quality cars to a place where they demand "quality" (and i put it in quotes) cars from the far east (Malaysia, China, Japan, Korea)

I don't think Malaysia sells cars to Israel for polictical reasons. And i won't consider Chinese or Korean cars to be of good quality.

[livni]

^^ I dont think we allow chinese or indian cars, yet.
A) Because of pressure from other big importers on govt. (cause these cars will be cheaper)
B) Safety standards
C) Cost - cheaper to import japanese/us/eu cars from east europe.

[Kappa21]

I don't think Malaysia sells cars to Israel for polictical reasons. And i won't consider Chinese or Korean cars to be of good quality.


Malaysia do not have there own car companies. They are an affiliate of bigger comopanies like Opel or GM.

Once it goes on a boat, its an international boat..so we can get it. I dont think we have a problem with getting a Malaysian made car.

I heard they make a BMW's, but i think we get ours from Germany.

[Kappa21]

^^ I dont think we allow chinese or indian cars, yet.
A) Because of pressure from other big importers on govt. (cause these cars will be cheaper)
B) Safety standards
C) Cost - cheaper to import japanese/us/eu cars from east europe.


Sooner or later Chinese car companies will come to the market. I know it cause in Canada they are starting to make 'room' for them.
I think in Israel they will have it too!

The problem with them is that no one has tried them yet. But they have small engines..

for almost 25 years now, we made parts in China and assembled car parts from exhaust to body works to even an engine...
so since the chinese produce all the little products..why not produce a car.

Im still pessimistical about a MADE IN CHINA car, but i think that it needs a few years to get along.
KIA in Canada was bad...but now its building up somehow...

and we dont have Daewoo no more...they lost business.....
and no SEAT and no Opel and no Renault or Citreon..
cheap European cars..

i prefer some good ol' American steele :D

[livni]

daewoo went out of business in s. korea

[Kappa21]

good riddance ^^ they are now part of GM/UMI :) so now they use there design but not there engine/system in making small cars for GM in North America...

Chevy Aveo is one example
http://www2.uol.com.br/bestcars/carros/saloes/sema03/aveo-xtreme-1.jpg

[livni]

chevrolet is doing preety good here, theyare trying to enter their luxury cars, they are doing better with teh cheper like aveo.

[Kappa21]

Cheverlot was never a luxury car to start off with...

it was a regular mans car.

The only way it was going to be high end was with its trucks...they are expensive...
I think Cadillac and another brand is the only high end for GM...

Ford high end is Lincoln...
:D g-d bless america!

[Shohad]

Livni, Merkavim is not really an auto company. They just assemble the buses (Merc, Volvo, DAF).

[Shohad]

But Israeli companies design and build unique vehicles for military purposes.

[Kappa21]

Does Merkavim only get huge parts of a bus and assemble them?
is that how they work?

[Hebrewtext]

the Israeli Sufa jeep , sold to the civilian market
,based upon the military version .

http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/277/sufaln6.jpg

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8601/sufa2fa6.jpg

[Kappa21]

THe Germans recently sold us a very high grade military vehicle...

[Timur]

what stupit cars r these, is anyone buy them there if hes not blind?

[Kappa21]

what stupit cars r these, is anyone buy them there if hes not blind?


Nothing spells stupid like stupit :D

[DrasQue]

@Timur

Stop trolling
Israel makes stunning cars and you are becoming a black sheep of the Turks
And I think your punishment time has come

Where has his post gone :D ?

[Kappa21]

down the toilet ^^

are u jewish emeree?

[ZOHAR]

Eemree deleted!
no place in Israeli forum for trollers:)

[DrasQue]

are u jewish emeree?

Nope, I have no religion

[Kappa21]

i see :)
but thanks for supporting us :)

[DrasQue]

^^ ;)

[ZOHAR]

^^double ;)