page_title: FSO Polonez
section_title: Export markets
hierarchical_section_title: FSO Polonez / Export markets
caption_attribution_description: FSO Polonez MR'87 in Utrecht
context_page_description: The FSO Polonez is a motor vehicle that was developed in Poland in collaboration with Fiat and produced by Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych from 1978 to 2002. It was based on the Polski Fiat 125p platform with a new hatchback design by Giorgetto Giugiaro. It was available in a variety of body styles that included two- and four- door compact-sized cars, station wagons, as well as commercial versions that included pickup truck and ambulance uses. With production total of over 1 million units, not counting pick-up and van variants. The Polonez was marketed in other nations and was popular in its domestic market until Poland joined the European Union in 2004.
  The car's name comes from the Polish dance, the polonaise and was chosen through a readers' poll conducted by the Życie Warszawy newspaper.
context_section_description: Polonez was exported to many countries, including Netherlands, Yugoslavia, France, Argentina, Bolivia, UK, China, Greece, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Syria, Uruguay, Jordan, Norway, Finland, Egypt, Spain, Hungary, Serbia and others.  Complete knock down (CKD) cars were assembled by El Nasr in Egypt from 1983 until 1993, succeeding the locally assembled 125p in that market. Assembly for Nasr was actually carried out by Arab American Vehicles. In the late 1980s, a batch of 167 Polonez hatchbacks was exported to New Zealand. They were also exported to Chile and Colombia (in the latter country also used as police cars and taxicabs) from the late 1980s to early 1990s. In some countries the FSO Polonez was sold as FSO Celina, FSO Prima, or FSO Caro.
  Imports to the UK ceased in 1997, though sales continued in some parts of Western Europe - including France - for at least a year afterwards. They were withdrawn from those markets due to a combination of more stringent emissions requirements and declining demand.
caption: FSO Polonez MR'87 in Utrecht (Netherlands), 1989
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