page_title: Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych
section_title: Early history
hierarchical_section_title: Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych / Early history
caption_attribution_description: English: FSO Warszawa 201 or 202 during the Oldtimer Show 2008.
context_page_description: Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych, commonly known as FSO, is a Polish automobile parts manufacturer, and formerly an automobile producer of historic significance, located in Warsaw.
  In 2011 the factory ceased production of whole cars as a result of the global crisis and the entry into force of the Free Trade Treaty, as a result of which cars imported from South Korea into the EU are exempt from 1% duty; since then, FSO has been producing of automotive sub-assemblies.
context_section_description: The FSO plant was established in 1948 by the Communist Polish government in Żerań on Warsaw's eastern bank of the river Vistula, to produce automobiles for post World War II Poland. The first FSO car was the Warszawa which was essentially a Polish manufactured re-badge of the GAZ-M20 Pobeda, built under license from the Soviets. 
  In 1953, an in-house team started development of a smaller and cheaper to manufacture car resulting in FSO's second model, the two-stroke Syrena. The Syrena, introduced in 1957, was a proprietary design of FSO; and its production was moved to the FSM car factory (Fabryka Samochodów Małolitrażowych).
caption: FSO Warszawa M20-57
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