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Published: 2015-10-04 05:31:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 682; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 3
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Seen at the 2015 Seoul Auto Show


1957 Sibal Jeep (Taxi) replica version.

The Sibal 3 door SUV (US MILITARY JEEP), since August 1955 May 1963, was the first car produced in South Korea. The word Sibal (시발, 始發) means 'inception' or 'beginning'.

Then the four-cylinder Jeep exhibited: foot car type was the six-seater. Parts localization efforts for, as a result, induced many quality problems. Glass is a glass of non-reinforced laminated glass or glass 2, using the roads were cracked, when to go. The price for the first time, only 8 cars Sibal and hospitality, a year after the taxi transportation companies interested in the 30 million were sold by raising up the hospitality but the rapid increase in car oil surge. due at the time, Syngman Rhee Government on May 8, 1957, the only Government to limit the number of cars 5 and 8 line, which impose urgent measures while hitting car sales: foot prayer. Aka the yellow ticket depending on the production license, called the car the car is 5-16 military Jung Sibal changed since government grants-breaks and May 16 coup as the Nissan Bluebird car in 1962, a new imported cars sold under the name the country, sales plummeted in May 1963, the cumulative production of about 2 feet on the 236 cars discontinued after.

From - Wikipedia. Kudos to them as always

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Comments: 4

Mr-Pink-Rose [2017-09-11 14:47:30 +0000 UTC]

This must've been what inspired the Toyota FJ40 Cruiser.

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toyonda In reply to Mr-Pink-Rose [2017-11-03 23:49:13 +0000 UTC]

nope. This was inspired by the FJ40 Cruiser and the FJ Cruiser from 2006-2012

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Mister-Lou [2015-10-06 16:31:44 +0000 UTC]

Didn't this become the Asia Roksta later on? supposedly this is the only Sibal remaining.

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toyonda In reply to Mister-Lou [2016-01-20 11:17:17 +0000 UTC]

LUIS I AM SO SORRY FOR THE SUPER LATE REPLY AND YEAH, I THINK SO.

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