Baku, Azerbaijan, March 10
By Rahim Zamanov - Trend:
Iranian car manufacturer SAIPA has unveiled three new models, Iran's Young Journalists Club reported on March 10.
SAIPA 232, Renault Sandero, and S300 are the newly unveiled models.
SAIPA will start the production lines of the cars in the next Iranian calendar year (to start March 21).
Iran produced 576,663 cars in the first ten months of the current Iranian calendar year, IRNA reported on Jan. 26.
Some 489,182 sedan cars, 81,349 pickup trucks, 5,711 trucks, 341 buses, and one minibus were produced in the country in the mentioned period.
Iran produced 74,211 cars in the tenth calendar month of the current Iranian calendar year (December 23 - January 22).
Iran produced 989,110 cars in 2012, which made the country Asia's eighth largest car manufacturer.
Iran also stood in the world's 18th place.
China, Japan, South Korea, India, Thailand, Turkey, and Indonesia were Asia's seven largest car manufacturers.
Iran's automobile output faced a 40 per cent decrease in 2012. The country was Asia's 5th largest car manufacturer in 2011, with a total output of 1,648,505.
Increasing prices of raw materials and foreign currencies are the main problems that the car manufacturers are facing.
The world's total car production stood at 84,141,209 cars in 2012, which is 5.3 per cent more than the preceding year.
Edited by S.M.