Template:Short description Template:Redirect {{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template otherTemplate:Main other{{#invoke:Check for clobbered parameters|check|nested=1|template=Infobox company|cat=Template:Main other|name; company_name|logo; company_logo|logo_alt; alt|trade_name; trading_name|former_names; former_name|type; company_type|predecessors; predecessor|successors; successor|foundation; founded|founders; founder|defunct; dissolved|hq_location; location|hq_location_city; location_city|hq_location_country; location_country|num_locations; locations|areas_served; area_served|net_income; profit|net_income_year; profit_year|owners; owner |homepage; website }}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:Infobox company with unknown parameter "_VALUE_" | ignoreblank=y | alt | area_served | areas_served | assets | assets_year | aum | brands | company_logo | company_name | company_type | defunct | dissolved | divisions | embed | equity | equity_year | fate | footnotes | former_name | former_names | foundation | founded | founder | founders | genre | homepage | hq_location | hq_location_city | hq_location_country | incorporated | image | image_alt | image_caption | image_size | image_upright | income_year | industry | ISIN | key_people | location | location_city | location_country | locations | logo | logo_alt | logo_caption | logo_class | logo_size | logo_upright | members | members_year | module | name | native_name | native_name_lang | net_income | net_income_year | num_employees | num_employees_year | num_locations | num_locations_year | operating_income | owner | owners | parent | predecessor | predecessors | production | production_year | products | profit | profit_year | rating | ratio | revenue | revenue_year | romanized_name | services | subsid | successor | successors | traded_as | trade_name | trading_name | type | website| qid | fetchwikidata | suppressfields | noicon | nocat | demo | categories }} Troller Veículos Especiais S/A (Troller) was a Brazilian off-road vehicle manufacturer. Founded in 1995 in Horizonte, Ceará, it became a subsidiary of Ford in 2007.<ref name="forddobrasil">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Troller T4 was a flagship vehicle, which had featured successfully in several rally races around the world, including the Dakar Rally.
EtymologyEdit
The name Troller is a Brazilian adaptation of the English word Troll, which refers to a character of the Scandinavian legends that dwells forests and caves of Norway.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
HistoryEdit
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Troller started in 1995, by Rogério Farias. In April 1996, the first prototype was built.<ref name="inovaunicamp">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1997, the company was bought by the entrepreneur Mário Araripe, who formed a partnership with Rogério Farias; the first gasoline-powered T4 was built.<ref name="inovaunicamp" /><ref name="troller">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> The mass-production of the vehicle started in 1999, when a factory was built in the municipality of Horizonte.<ref name="inovaunicamp" />
In 2005, a manufacturing plant opened in Angola to build the T4 for the African market.<ref name="angola">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In January 2007, Ford do Brasil announced Troller's acquisition for Template:BRLConvert.<ref name="forddobrasil"/><ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On 14 December 2009, a Troller made the news when it cleared São Paulo's flooded streets during a news broadcast, at the time, the company played along and tried to find the driver.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> The T4 received a redesign in 2014.
The Troller plant in Horizonte was closed by the end of 2021, with Ford ending all its production in Brazil.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The brand and the Technology was not put for sale, just the industrial complex which comprises a land of Template:Convert with Template:Convert of floor area. The special tax regime, valid until 2025, would also be linked to the factory.<ref name=":0" />
The state owned company expropriated the 129,000 m² of land that was for sale and seems to re-assemble electric hybrid vehicles, six models from three brands, starting in 2025. The investment of R$ 400 million would be for the first phase 255 direct employees. The Plant where the assembly is planned in Horizonte was ceded by Adece to Comexport under a loan-for-use arrangement, where 3 years ago was ex Troller of ex Ford, meaning the forests behind with a total land of 550 000 m² is to be devasted near the water supply.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ModelsEdit
- Troller Pantanal (2006–2008)
- Troller T4 3.2 Turbodiesel (2015–2021)
See alsoEdit
- TAC Stark - another Brazilian four-wheel drive vehicle.
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