Pardo Cars (Mexico) - AllCarIndex

Pardo Cars was a small Mexican automotive manufacturer and design studio that developed low-cost city cars and later electric vehicles. The company was led by industrial engineer Carlos Pardo, based in Ciudad Sahagún, Hidalgo, and was recorded as an active Mexican marque from about 2014 onward. Its focus was on compact, lightweight urban vehicles positioned below mainstream subcompacts, with styling and technical development carried out in-house while production and industrialization were often pursued through partnerships.

The firm’s principal model was the Pardo Andrea, a microcar classified by some references as a scissor-door two-seater. An early generation of the Andrea was sold in very small numbers with two seats, rear-wheel drive, a 1.6-litre engine and a low-cost polypropylene body, marketed as an inexpensive Mexican urban car. A second-generation Pardo Cars Andrea was developed as a subcompact hatchback for around 2014 with a 1.0-litre GM-sourced four-cylinder engine and plans for a limited electric variant priced under 150,000 pesos. From this programme evolved the Andrea Go and Andrea Go Electric projects: by 2017 the Andrea Go electric prototype was being built in the Giant Motors plant at Tepeapulco, and described as a Mexican-designed compact whose early development dated back roughly eight years. In the early 2020s the project was further promoted by Pardo’s design entities, including ACX Innovación y Diseño and Pardo Automotive, and by mid-decade Pardo Cars and the Andrea Go Electric were still being presented as examples of Mexican EV engineering on the international stage.