New BMW 7 Series Cleared for Registration

Pictures have emerged online showing a Tehran car license plate ending with ‘10’ – the newest version to be released in the capital – attached to the latest BMW 7 series. The large luxury sedan model entered the country in early January after  several months of being unavailable due to a recently introduced law banning cars with engine displacements larger than 2500cc, the local automotive website Donyaye Khodro reported Tuesday. BMW’s latest luxury model features a four-cylinder two-liter turbocharged engine that produces 258 horsepower and 400 Newton meters of torque. The nearly two-ton vehicle, which is loaded with luxury extras, can reach 0-100 kilometers per hour in barely 6.3 seconds according to German test track demonstrations. Also due to the new stringent regulations, the car has low fuel consumption with an average combined urban and extra urban of 6.2 liters per every 100 kilometers. According to the website the average price for the new 730 model is 9 billion rials ($230,000).