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1978 - The Volvo 343

Hungarian test of a Swedish car from 1978.

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1964 - Who were the "commuters"?

In the January 21, 1964 issue of Autó-Motor, the reader of the time could read - among other things - a whole...

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1978 - Made in Hungary 1.

Creators and creations In 1978, Autó-Motor undertook nothing less than to present the Hungarian automotive industry in a series of twenty-four articles...

Mar 1, 20247 min read
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1951 - At a deadly pace

The January 15, 1951 issue of Autó-Motor reported the good news that the driver of the Charkov Car and Motor Club,...

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1983 - The Mercedes-Benz W201 is launched,

the 190, was introduced in February 1983 in Autó-Motor, the Mercedes-Benz W-201, popularly known as the W-201, which had been launched in December of the previous year...

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1964 - The year when the MÁVAUT site on Andor Street was opened in Budapest

In October 1964, Autó-Motor reported that the three-year-long, "worth showing to foreigners",...

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1979 - 10 000 km in a Dacia 1.

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In January and February 1979, a chronicle of a ten thousand kilometre test drive by György Rózsa was published in Autó-Motor. The subject of the test was a zero-kilometre Dacia 1300, which had been in production in our eastern neighbour's country for nearly ten years. So the newspaper's staff - or rather, his staff - had the opportunity to test a purely Romanian-made car, an early production car, still predominantly French [...]

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1979 - 10 000 km in a Dacia 2.

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1954 - The new "Ikarus 55″ and "66″ buses

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By Béla Zerkovitz, chief designer The following study about the legendary Ikarus 55 and 66 was published in 1954 in the periodical "Magyar Technika" and its real value lies in the fact that it...

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1956 - The Budapest Wholesale Market Square

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The former pantry of the capital "Fresh goods are getting to the shops much faster than before with the introduction of conveyor belt loading at the wholesale market." - proclaims a picture published in Autó-Motor on 1 July 1956 at the bottom...