Arian Motor Taban, the official representative of France’s DS brand in Iran, unveiled the DS 5LS model in its main showroom in the north of Tehran. According to local automotive website Car-Net,…
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<p>Read the latest news about Iran’s automotive industry, market trends, output figures, & import data, along with updates about Iran Khodro, Saipa and Pars Khodro</p>
British luxury marquee Jaguar confirmed reports it would build an electric car and has revealed a concept vehicle dubbed “I-Pace”.
The new car will make its debut at the Los Angeles Motor…
The 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio–the first crossover from the resurrected brand–is aiming to take on a raft of other European and Asia crossovers now dominating vehicle sales.
Stelvio, named…
Iran Khodro was followed by its main rival, SAIPA—the second largest auto manufacturer in Iran—in terms of cars sold in the Iranian market.
Donya-e-Eqtesad, the sister newspaper of…
Iran Khodro is looking beyond traditional markets and is keen on marketing its low-cost vehicles in the Nigerian market.
Olusegun Awolowo, director of Nigerian Export Promotion Council,…
As long as the Iranian National Standards Organization certifies the quality of a car, its production should not stop.
Nayyereh Pirouzbakht, the head of INSO, noted that there are a set of…
China’s Great Wall Motor, the maker of the communist country’s top-selling sport utility vehicles, plans to launch a new high-end brand next week, the latest attempt by a Chinese automaker to…
The two largest Iranian auto manufacturers, Iran Khodro and SAIPA, owe 40 trillion rials ($1.1 billion) to parts manufacturers, according to officials at a recent press conference.
Pars Khodro, a subsidiary of SAIPA, plans to bring another Chinese-derived Brilliance model to Iran in January. The new car, which is part of the same family of the other Brilliance models,…
The Azerbaijan Republic may soon turn into a regional automotive hub, as interest from foreign car manufacturers continues to rise.
Being a favorable platform for major automakers, the…
Volvo, which is better known for its heavy-duty vehicles and buses, has exported 208 passenger vehicles during the first six months of the current Iranian year (started March 20).
According…
Iran Standards and Quality Inspection Company has released a new report on the quality of 41 locally-made cars and seven pickup trucks.
According to this month’s report, for the first time…
Ninety percent of cars in the capital have obtained quality inspection documents, while only 10% have not yet referred to the centers for the annual auto check, the head of Tehran’s Vehicle…
A total of 753,580 units of cars were manufactured in Iran from the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 20) until November 5 (7.5 months).
The report notes that a year-on-year…
Iranian automakers have voiced their displeasure and MPs have questioned the legality of the MoU signed by the Industrial Development and Renovation Organization with Renault in September
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The DS 5LS has received permission to enter Iran following other models of the recently formed Citroen sub-brand.
The DS 5LS is a 4.7-meter luxury saloon based on the same C4-derived…
Moscow’s Skolkovo Innovation Center has unveiled Russia’s first unmanned “ElektroAutobus” called the Matreska, which is designed to carry up to eight passengers.
Iran Khodro Diesel, the industrial vehicle subsidiary of Iran Khodro Company, the country’s top carmaker, has announced the production of its first range of CNG-powered buses.
Speculations are rampant that Fiat will announce signing a contract with a local company at the upcoming International Conference of Iran’s Auto Industry in February, according to sources in…
The production of SAIPA’s Pride and Iran Khodro’s Peugeot 405 will stop by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2017), said a top advisor of the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade…
Opel will launch its biggest product offensive to date with seven new models, including a successor to its Meriva minivan called Crossland X.
Citroen’s C-Elysee sedan and its carbon-copy Peugeot 301 have both received a facelift for 2017. According to Car News China, the new models, which are expected to arrive in the Iranian market in…
Media Motors, the main distributor of MG cars in Iran, is offering sales packages for MG6 with a loan of $17,000. The car is priced at 1,370,000,000 rials ($39,000 at market exchange rate). Car…
Western European car sales fell 1% in October as the French and German markets weakened, according to industry data compiled by LMC Automotive.
Registrations last month were 1.05 million…
SAIPA and Iran Khodro, the two largest Iranian automakers, are participating at the ongoing Baghdad 43rd International Exhibition that opened at the beginning of November.
