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manufacturer of similar nature were also facing similar situations but at least UMM brand name still sold well. Therefore the FMAT company decided at the time to reduce some of their original PORTARO model range due to the economical and financial unrest at the time of the 1990s in Europe particularly in
Portugal but unfortunately most of the spare parts were nearly stocked out forcing FMAT to rebuild their own current PORTARO model range now fitting them with new modern updated FORD Transit TDI 2500cc 96BHP running gear with higher torque and more powerful engines needed for these large vehicles which became the later "PORTARO 250 FMAT ID 4X4", however sales took a downturn in about 1994 and to make matters worse the stocked ARO original spare parts were now running low too in the assembly workshops forcing to a reduced production run of the PORTARO brand so it was inevitable that FMAT could not handle this situation any longer and a year later by the Summer of 1995 this marked the end of the PORTARO Portuguese brand name thirty years after it arrived upon the scene in the automobile market always enjoying happy sales and with a remarkable automobile career.
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been making agricultural equipment and industrial machinery since the late 1890s. Motor vehicle assembly was to become an impoortant thing and the firm actually were assembling original French BERLIET lorries of many types in the 1950s until the 1980s a weekly operation at FMAT so output production had quadrupled than it was before making PORTARO brand name once more relaunched to the market after a brief absence but this time with a reduced upadated new PORTARO Model Range for the 1980s. This recently restored dark grey 1989 "PORTARO 280 DCM 2800 4WD Diesel" model is a nine seater and it was actually assembled at the wellknown FMAT Motor
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