The Wallyscar Brand, From Tunisia With Pride

Today’s matter is an automaker you have likely never ever heard of. It’s a small enterprise that was founded not that extended in the past, offers vehicles in quite limited markets, and generates all over 600 vehicles per yr. Its item is based on old suggestions from other suppliers, all completed up in fiberglass until incredibly not long ago. Let’s enter the excellent world of Wallyscar.

Your creator was alerted to this minimal-regarded brand name on Twitter. I’d posted a photograph of the Kia Delight van, on the lookout charming in blue with its whitewall tires. A nicely-knowledgeable Twitter person let me know the Fiesta/Satisfaction lived on in a new identification as the Wallyscar 619! I had to edit the pending Festiva write-up for precision, as I’d previously claimed its manufacturing came to an conclusion in 2020. Then I set about some more exploration into the 619 and Wallyscar.

Strategies for the corporation that would become Wallyscar (Wallys for short) blended together in 2005. A random assembly occurred on the islands of Wallis and Futuna, involving Zied Guiga, his brother Omar, and a man named René Boesch. Boesch made use of to develop Jeeps in some potential, but the Internet seems unclear on what it was. The a few joined forces and started Wallyscar in 2006. Its headquarters are in the city of Ben Arous, in northeastern Tunisia.

The new company’s first automobile was the IZIS, which debuted at the Paris Motor Show in 2008. It was a tiny off-highway Jeep-form automobile with two doorways, that looked a lot like an aged Jeep Liberty at the front. Nevertheless, a attorney may possibly disagree with reported assertion, simply because the IZIS experienced six slats in the grille, whereas Jeep had seven. Similarly, the title Wallys drew no inspiration from Willys Jeep. So there.

Wallyscar follows four key ideals at the rear of its automobiles: Little exterior proportions, overall economy and robustness, retro-modern-day styling, and great dependability. For its debut product, the IZIS employed a fiberglass body designed by Tunisian structure organization HH structure.

Wallyscar partnered commonly with PSA, German electrical technique provider VDO, and tech/component screening organization UTAC for a entire established of parts. Thus, the small Jeep-like IZIS was regarded as a knockdown package (CKD) car or truck. It was obtainable with or without having doorways, and the roof was also optional. The motor and interior ended up sourced from the suppliers detailed higher than. In specific, the motor came right from Peugeot: IZIS was driven by a 1.4-liter PSA engine, excellent for 74 horsepower. Simply because of the kit character of the IZIS there have been about 100 unique colors available, as well as a vary of interior trim, energy functions, and even diverse steering wheels.

IZIS went on sale in the confined markets of Tunisia, Morocco, France, and Panama. Wallyscar insisted on compliance with European concentrations of protection and statements currently that all its styles are constructed to the maximum basic safety conventional. To that conclusion, the IZIS gained a two-star NCAP score (out of 5).

Manufacturing of the IRIS began in March 2017 with a selling price of 35,900 dinars, or $11,782 USD. Wallys maintains the IRIS is cautiously hand-assembled and gives the buyer a lot of alternatives in paint colors and interior elements. Devoted to local manufacturing, 57 per cent of parts utilised in Wallys cars are created locally in Tunisia.

The Wallys lineup expanded in April of 2021 when the business started off production of a new five-doorway hatchback. Well, new is not the ideal term usually, more new to them. When Iranian maker SAIPA concluded developing its various hatch, wagon, and truck variations of the Kia Pleasure, it marketed the tooling onto a new home: Wallys. Wallys began building of its initially steel-bodied motor vehicle shortly thereafter, as the 619. The vehicle was introduced on their Facebook website page but curiously did not make it on to the Wallys formal web-site.

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The absence of publicity may be because the 619 is not of Wallys’ have style and design, or potentially since it is unquestionably sourced (at the very least for now) from elements that are not domestically assembled. There are a few of publicity shots from Wallys as seen right here. The Satisfaction bones beneath the extra modern front and rear fascia are clear.

Also obvious is the basis of the other car Wallys commenced making very last calendar year. Referred to as the 216, the company’s new and economical pickup truck is none other than the discontinued SAIPA 151. The 151 was SAIPA’s eventual translation of the Delight five-doorway into a pickup. The 216 is also obtainable with a sort of extended mattress cap, as a panel truck.

Wallys provides the same 1.3-liter PSA motor it has normally utilized in all its three types, as very well as dual airbags. The pickup is presently stated on a pre-get foundation for a foundation price of 29,900 dinar, or just $9,812 USD.

With just one of its individual creations on sale and two versions of the Festiva/Pleasure, we’ll see just how prolonged Wallys can preserve on creating a tiny Mazda hatchback from 1986.

[Images: Wallyscar]

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