DIM Motor Company, a Greek automobile maker, was created by Georgios Dimitriadis as a successor to his earlier company, Bioplastic S.A. , which had produced the Attica automobile. The DIM represented one more effort by Dimitriadis to design and develop a modern car entirely by his own means. It used a 600cc engine and other mechanical parts of the Fiat 126 model; a 650cc engine was used in an improved version.

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  • DIM Motor Company, a Greek automobile maker, was created by Georgios Dimitriadis as a successor to his earlier company, Bioplastic S.A. , which had produced the Attica automobile. The DIM represented one more effort by Dimitriadis to design and develop a modern car entirely by his own means. It used a 600cc engine and other mechanical parts of the Fiat 126 model; a 650cc engine was used in an improved version. The car was finally introduced at the Geneva Motor Show in 1977, and for this reason received more publicity than most Greek vehicles, appearing in many international publications. A plant was built for its production in Acharnes, and the company was advertised in the Greek press; plans were also made for more versions, including a sports coupe. However, the costs involved—mostly for bureaucratic reasons—and the car's poor prospects in the Greek market (despite an effort to facelift the model) resulted in termination of production after only about ten had been produced. The whole project was abandoned in 1982, having been Georgios Dimitriadis' last venture in the automotive industry. For more than 20 years, Dimitriadis had fought Greek bureaucracy and laws that (through high imposed costs) effectively prohibited production of locally developed passenger cars, with significant costs in capital and resources.
  • DIM Motor Company ist ein ehemaliger Automobilhersteller aus Griechenland und entstand als Nachfolger der Bioplastic S.A. Hauptstandort war Achames. 1977 wurde die Marke DIM auf dem Genfer Automobilsalon mit dem DIM 652 etabliert. Dieser hatte einen 600-cm³-Motor der Marke Fiat. Eine stärkere Version folgte etwas später mit 650 cm³. Eine groß angelegte Werbeaktion und ein Facelift führten zu keinem Erfolg. Nach 20 Jahren der Arbeit beendete Gründer Georgios Dimitriadis die Arbeit in der Automobilindustrie und verabschiedete sich in die Rente.
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  • DIM Motor Company, a Greek automobile maker, was created by Georgios Dimitriadis as a successor to his earlier company, Bioplastic S.A. , which had produced the Attica automobile. The DIM represented one more effort by Dimitriadis to design and develop a modern car entirely by his own means. It used a 600cc engine and other mechanical parts of the Fiat 126 model; a 650cc engine was used in an improved version.
  • DIM Motor Company ist ein ehemaliger Automobilhersteller aus Griechenland und entstand als Nachfolger der Bioplastic S.A. Hauptstandort war Achames. 1977 wurde die Marke DIM auf dem Genfer Automobilsalon mit dem DIM 652 etabliert. Dieser hatte einen 600-cm³-Motor der Marke Fiat. Eine stärkere Version folgte etwas später mit 650 cm³. Eine groß angelegte Werbeaktion und ein Facelift führten zu keinem Erfolg.
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  • DIM (automobiles)
  • DIM Motor
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