Iran Khodo, the country’s oldest and largest car manufacturer, has announced it will begin the sales of China’s Haima 7 small sports utility vehicle. IKCO’s announcement that is teaming up…
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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>
Tehran Municipality has said a recently announced scheme to remove dilapidated vehicles off the roads of the capital is taking shape.
As part of the new plan a new fund has been established…
The Mazda3 sedan and hatchback are getting more standard features for 2016. Mazda has discontinued the old base model and made the Mazda3 i Sport the new standard model.
US sales of the…
An Iranian auto company, Bahar Khodro, has announced that 25 Audi Q5s will take to the streets of Iran in 40 days.
According to Donyaye Khodro, the company has been legally…
Honda's new CEO Takahiro Hachigo is promising to take more time in product development and to bring his company together as a team to avoid the quality lapses that have led to shrinking profits at…
The new Fiat 500 has had an upgrade. The biggest updates that Fiat has grafted into its diminutive 500 hatchback are under the skin and inside its interior.
The hydrogen fuel cell-powered Toyota Mirai is the only zero emissions car one can buy that can go more than 480 km without refueling.
Success can breed jealousy, and unfortunately for Skoda, Volkswagen Group’s Czech subsidiary, business is booming. Meanwhile, Skoda’s far larger and better-known sibling, the VW brand, struggles…
The number of automobile manufacturing companies in Iran currently stands at 27. It is, however, common knowledge that the duopoly of Iran Khodro Company and Saipa hold the helm of the car…
Tesla Motors Inc. beat its car-sales forecast for the second consecutive quarter with a 52% surge in the three months through June. Tesla delivered 11,507 Model S sedans in the period, the Palo…
Iran's Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade and a Chinese delegation signed a memorandum of understanding to create a specialized automotive university in Alborz province, west of Tehran.
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Despite the increase in traffic-calming measures on Iran's roads and highways, as of the start of the current Iranian year (started March 21), car collisions increased by 2.9%.
According to…
Car manufacturers have produced 16.2% more cars in comparison with the same period last year, the spokesperson of Iran's Car Manufacturing Policymaking Council told.
Sasan Qorbani…
The Cuban government ordered 719 cars from China's BYD Co. which it will rent out to tourists in a deal that is a bright spot for Chinese automakers facing a weak export market.
This week, Persian Khodro, a leading automotive Persian-language news site wrote a stinging article in response to a previous piece by a local auto industry expert. The original article, written…
BMW and Toyota are moving ahead on a project to jointly develop a midsize sports car with an agreement on common underpinnings for the model. The program to create the vehicle is "progressing…
Statistics show nearly 60% of auto parts in the Iranian market have been smuggled into the country, an official with Iran's Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, said.
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Uber Co., the world's largest application-based taxi hailing service, and two of its bosses will go on trial in September over the company’s allegedly "illegal" ride-booking practices, prosecutors…
French new-car sales jumped 15% in June as two extra working days helped lift registrations.
2 Cheap Cars, which has built a New Zealand wide chain of car yards selling used imports since starting four years ago, says it plans to enter the market for new cars by parallel importing Toyota…
Saipa, Iran's second largest vehicle manufacturer, has exported 135,000 vehicles to Iraq, during 2010-15, selling the most number of cars in the Iraqi market.
Extensive sales…
Nissan, fighting falling sales of its Leaf electric vehicle, plans a mid-cycle update as early as August to deliver a big increase in the Leaf's driving range, a person familiar with the project…
US auto sales are headed into a strong summer, likely to help produce new-car sales of more than 17 million for all of 2015 potentially making this year the third-best year ever.
Ford USA is entering the car-sharing market with a program that will cut Ford Credit customers' vehicle costs by enabling them to rent out their cars to third-party individuals.
Germany’s Volkswagen plans to launch a family of low-cost budget cars in China and possibly elsewhere starting in 2018, its chief executive said on Sunday. “We will bring a budget car family to…
