Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 2
By Farhad Daneshvar– Trend:
The sales representative of Iranian carmaker SAIPA in Azerbaijan has said that the his firm plans to import about 200 cars in the first half of the current year.
Mehrdad Sangini, the head of Atlas Motor firm which is the sales representative of SAIPA in Azerbaijan, has told Trend that his firm launched the imports of SAINA brands since early January.
“The firm currently imports about 16-32 cars on a monthly basis but the figure will probably increase in the second half of the year with more SAIPA brands,” he said.
Over the past several years, Azerbaijan imported about 3,000 SAIPA cars but due to market situation the imports were suspended in 2016 and 2017, Sangini added.
Saying that the firm is now offering SAINA at 14,000 AZN for cash purchase but the customers have a chance to acquire the cars through leasing, as well.
Over the first nine months of the current Iranian year (starting March 20), SAIPA was the second largest producer of the country after Iran Khodro producing 261,100 passenger cars, indicating a jump of 16.7 percent year on year.