Baby-Brousse

The Baby-Brousse is a Citroën 2CV based utility vehicle, at first privately built, that later spawned the FAF series of vehicles.

The car is like a metal-bodied Citroën Méhari and is similar in concept to the French Citroën FAF. The vehicle was a success with more than 31,000 being built from 1963 to 1987.^[1] The entire body was made of folded sheet steel with the other parts being bolted together,^[2][3] with no welding.

Background

The Baby-Brousse was originally conceived in 1963 by two Frenchmen, Mr. Letoquin and Mr. Lechanteurin that owned les Ateliers et Forges de l’Ebrié, a company in Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast.^[3]

Sales figures

• Baby Brousse in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)(1963–1979) 31,305 built.

Badge engineered Baby Brousses had many names in many places:

• Dalat in Vietnam (1969–1975) 5,000 examples.^[4][5]
• Mehari in Iran (1970–1979) ^[6][7]
• Mehari in Sénégal (1979–1983)
• Yagán in Chile (1971–1973) 1,500 examples.^[8]
• Pony in Thessalonika, Greece, built by Namco with Dyane 6 components in a specifically built factory. These had better build quality and equipment than others. 30,000 examples were built.^[9]
• FAF in Indonesia (1979-1980) 600 examples ^[10]
• FAX 4x4 in Portugal 800 examples ^[11]

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