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Iran to unveil first national diesel car by March 2015

Iran Materials 16 November 2012 10:43 (UTC +04:00)
The first Iranian-made car powered by national diesel engine will hit the market by March 2015, the Mehr News Agency quoted Iranian giant carmaker Iran Khodro’s managing director Javad Najmeddin as saying on Friday.
Iran to unveil first national diesel car by March 2015

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov.16/ Trend G.Mehdi/

The first Iranian-made car powered by national diesel engine will hit the market by March 2015, the Mehr News Agency quoted Iranian giant carmaker Iran Khodro's managing director Javad Najmeddin as saying on Friday.

"The national diesel engine, with 1500CC capacity, 110hp output, and 5.2 liters per hundred kilometer fuel consumption, meets euro-5 and euro-6 standards," he noted.

On October 30, ISNA reported that the first all-Iranian car will be supplied to the market by March 2014.

Iran Khodro and Saipa, the two key Iranian carmakers, have previously introduced a number of domestically-built cars so far, namely Samand, Runna, and Tiba.

However, this is for the first time that a car will be built on a platform which has been designed and developed through the use of Iranian expertise.

It is projected that 10-12 cars in different classes will be manufactured on the Iranian-made platform.

Iran plans to manufacture at least three million cars by 2025 and export some one million sets, the Fars News Agency quoted Industry, Mine, and Trade Minister Mehdi Ghazanfari as saying on June 16.

"Some 1.6 million cars were manufactured in the past calendar year and 55,000 cars were exported," Ghazanfari said.

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