POLAND to have its own automobile brand (back), the SYRENA!

Maybe some good news for the Polish automotive industry. After having produced foreign cars for decades, Poland is about to produce a...Polish car. And not just for the Polish market.

The revived brand, Syrena, inactive for 30 years, is ready to attack again.

The first car to be produced will be the Syrena Meluzyna, a sort of Beetle-Mini mix.

Have a look and share your opinion.

Official page (in English and Polish)
newsyrena.com/#homepage

It sounds like a great idea, but their press release gives me pause.


Basically this company has just bought the brand name syrena and do not seem to have any automotive manufacuring experience. Unfortunately polands car manufacturing capacity has been destroyed, the fso plant in warsaw has been dismantled due to corruption and mismanagement.

Hmmm, I thought the original "pride" brand was the POLONIS!!
Guess I was wrongLOL

is that in any connection to the `Matka Syra Ziemia`?

Not at all. Syrena is mermaid in Polish.

And it's probably connected with the Warsaw's coat of arms:



And the legend of Warsaw Mermaid: warsawtour.pl/en/warsaw-for-everyone/for-kids/warsaw-legends-3160.html

Syrena car used to be produced in Warsaw, by FSO company. Before Syrena, they had been producing a car called Warszawa.

well, thanks for info.

Generally a mermaid is a symbol of Warsaw, this creature has for example a few statues in the city.

Here's what the car will look like:


Clearly:


I heard about that too, and here's a very nice prototype:

New Warsaw car

leopard-car.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_6_Litre_Roadster
They manufacture cars in Poland.

If they sell it in the west they need to change the name to iSyena, better yet change the name all together.

If it sounds cool it will sell as long as the car is safe and reliable, there is a lot to a name.

One company that I think has everything in place, which will be the standard for years to come is Tesla motors in USA. I love their vision. This company needs to be apart of that movement.

The race is to mass produce a long range AFFORDABLE electric car.

That will be game set match

Leopard, yes. It's actually Swedish-Polish (the company HQs are in Trelleborg, Sweden, if I remember well). Nice cars too, but you can't expect to sell millions of these.



I totally agree, I was thinking about that too. Syrena may be alright, but Meluzyna... I can't imagine a Frenchman saying 'hey, I'm driving a Syrena Meluzyna'... 7 syllables, that's way too long, and probably too Polish too :P


Indeed. It's gaining in popularity, and for good reasons I guess.

Probably the meaning is limuzyna "limousine"... hahaha

But anyway the car building is XX century industry , it is not XXI century technology

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melusine

Not really (have a look at Magda's post), but I guess they could shorten the name as they do for limousine -> limo. Meluzyna -> ...Melu? Or Meloo? ;)

I think we should now submit suggestions for the car model name, I'll get the ball rolling: Seri Cebula

Meloo -> melon ? What about melon ? I think melon is much better than cebula
Or wahat about Cebula zwyczajna, cebula jadalna, czosnek cebula

Melon sounds good to me ;) Anything that is no longer than 2 syllables can do.
Or Milo. Syrena Milo... Any other suggestion? ;)

Polski Fiat? ;)

Let's leave in the past what belongs to the past, okay? ;D

Again, I seem to recall the 'Polonis', oh, back in the 80's. Or was that some sort of gag promo?
:-)

You mean 'Polonez'?

Well then, I guess I do. Funny, thought the spelling was different somehow. I see we've cleared that up! Didn't realize that Korean Daewoo was also producing Polish carsLOL Guess their own market wasn't large enough, eh?

Dunno about Daewoo, but to be honest, that Polonez, compared to the many Maluch was probably considered a luxury car ;)

The total "POLar" opposite then (pardon the pun, he-he!) of the old East German "Trabant" or Trabi; anything but luxury:-)

Too bad nothing came out from that like the New Trabant. Much better than a Beetle.

So they failed to start the production, didn't they?
I can't remember the car really. I probably saw it just several times probably in the 90s. It drew people's attention as it was so rare. I remember the sound it made and the smell. Why the smell? Does anyone know? Was it typical for this brand or just the one/s I came across?

And I remember a moskwicz or warszawa pernamently parked close to where I lived. I guess it was long out of order.

Because it ran on a mixture of petrol and two stroke oil.

Like some mopeds used to.

I myself would gladly drive a Polish car. In my country, we all love Polish products very much. Top-quality.

First of all, it collapsed coz Poles prefered to buy second hand German cars which were better quality than brand new FSO products. Not to mention much cheaper.

Customers` opinion decided about the fate of the car manufacturer.