DCA

DCA was the marque used by Madrid's Drover Construcciones de Automóviles S.L. and, after a 1995 name change, Fabricación Europea de Automóviles S.L. Pedro Peñalver is credited with creating the business and Alfonso Pérez Ross with directing it. References say Drover began building cars in 1992 after importing or licensing the British Lomax concept, while AllCarIndex documents a narrower 1994–2011 interval. The catalog keeps 1992 as the reported manufacturing start and discloses the directory conflict rather than shifting the company's founding. Only one defensible model family is known: the DCA 224, also marketed or described as the DCA Roadster and generic Model DCA. It combined 1930s/40s Morgan-like styling and a Lomax-derived open body with Citroën 2CV or Dyane chassis and mechanical components. A 602 cc air-cooled flat-twin, four-speed transmission, 525 kg reported curb weight, 125 km/h claim and modest dimensions are preserved from the specialist profile. One source accidentally calls the 2CV-derived engine a three-cylinder; that typo is not propagated. Reports of three- and four-wheel configurations and ambiguous rear seating lack direct factory documentation, so they remain unresolved options rather than extra models. Production was hand-built and made to order. A frequently repeated fifty cars per year is a reported rate or capacity, not a serial ledger and cannot be multiplied into a total. Manufacture reportedly ended in 2011, although corporate-registry activity and exact final deliveries remain unclear. DCA is unrelated to Dacia and non-automotive acronym uses; Lomax, Morgan and Citroën remain inspiration, licensor or donor identities. One 224/Roadster row therefore exhausts the supported range without inventing variants from wheel-count or seating conflicts.

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