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In 1957 Greek automobile manufacturer Petros Kontogouris won rights to produce Farmobil. The Swiss-designed multipurpose vehicle featured an all-steel body with reinforced crossmembers, removable doors and folding safety glass windshield. Its power was produced by a BMW Isetta 700cc engine and delivered to the rear wheels via a Porsche-designed 4 plus reverse gearbox. Each wheel had an independent, coil-based, double-action, shock-absorber mounted suspension. Kontogouris managed to raise production which attracted international attention. In 1962 Chrysler made Kontogouris an offer to buy and support his company which was accepted. Chrysler was so impressed with the Farmobil that decided to promote it in the US as ‘a forest ranger, a mountaineer, a crop sprayer, a safari wagon, a tractor, a power plant’ that like a ‘motorized goat’ could ‘handle hills, ravines, mountains, poor roads and no roads'. Despite its rising popularity, the costly BMW and Porsche parts made production economically unfavorable. Even
