Grancar Design Veículos Especiais Ltda., of São Paulo, was formed in 1990 through a partnership between Toni Bianco and the Ford dealership Grancar, owned by Armando George Neto. Its only model was the Futura, a Brazilian copy of the Renault Espace minivan that had reached Europe in 1984. Grancar imported an Espace, and Bianco made the molds for the fiberglass-reinforced plastic body directly from it, then developed the tooling and…
