Mercedes-Benz sales in China jumped 32% year on year to 48,588 vehicles in July as the German luxury brand enjoyed strong demand for its long-wheelbase E-class sedan.
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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>
SAIPA’s Pride, no pride after all, was once produced in unusually large numbers and is still the cheapest car in the local market. Now all that seems to be over and it is gradually on its way…
Latest data shows production of city buses is decreasing significantly as several production lines have stopped dead in their tracks. According to the report released by the Ministry of Industry…
Sapra Motor, a domestic car dealership, has received official permit from the Ministry of Industries to represent Opel in Iran.
The company has imported several units of Opel cars and is…
Toyota, Intel, Ericsson, with friends, have formed a new “Automotive Edge Computing Consortium” to “develop an ecosystem for connected cars to support emerging services such as intelligent…
Cumbersome regulations imposed by the government on the one hand and unbridled prices charged by voracious auto importers on the other are set to impose new costs on customers.
Last…
Auto production data show that in the current fiscal (started in March) production of ‘natural gas-gasoline hybrid’ vehicles increased 5.54% in the first four months year-on-year.
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An official with the Iranian Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association has expressed readiness of its members to cooperate with Azerbaijani counterparts.
Head of the association,…
Mitsubishi Motors will introduce a plug-in-hybrid version of its Outlander SUV to the Iranian market in September, according to a report by Nikkei. Car companies have begun introducing electric…
Kerman Motor, local partner of Korea’s Hyundai has started production of the Accent sedan.
The company previously started production lines of the Hyundai i10 and i20 which are assembled…
New-car registrations in Russia increased 19% in July, the fifth consecutive month of higher sales as the market emerges from a four-year slump. Registrations rose to 129,685, the Association of…
Much like developed markets SUVs and crossovers are now becoming more visible in Iran’s imported car market.
According to data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs…
Azim Khodro, a local auto brokerage group, has unveiled one of the biggest Chinese SUVs in the market.
Called Foton Sauvana (not to be confused with the Foton Savanna), the car will be…
One main difficulty in producing foreign cars in Iran with local automotive parts is their small production numbers, according to one CEO.
With more than four months having passed from the Iranian New Year (March 20), SAIPA has yet not delivered the cars it was obliged to hand over in February.
According to local news…
Sapra Motor, a newly launched auto dealership and distributer of Opel in Iran, has started the presale of the Mokka X 2017 in cash and three-step prepayment. The company is offering two versions…
The joint venture between Iran’s biggest domestic automaker Iran Khodro and France’s Peugeot, known as IKAP, is set to import the large Peugeot 3008 SUV by the end of the current fiscal (ending…
The International Automobile, Spare Parts and Related Industries Exhibition opened in the city of Mashhad in Khorasan Razavi Province this week.
A large number of local and foreign…
Europe’s first-half vehicle sales rose by 4.6%, defying predictions that the market would be nearly flat, pushing monthly volumes to the highest level since June 2007, the pre-recession high…
BMW is hedging its bets on the future by planning combustion, hybrid and electric versions of its core nameplates—with all three varieties capable of coming from the same assembly line.
French carmaker Renault has signed the long-awaited trilateral production deal with Industrial Development and Renovation Organization of Iran and a local private company Negin Khodro (aka Naseh…
The Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade has released data on local auto production. Some carmakers are doing better than others.
During the first four months of the current fiscal that…
Chinese carmaker Chery has signed a memorandum of understanding with Bank Saderat Iran to offer special savings accounts linked to a possible future car purchase.
Carmakers in Iran offer…
Local automakers were recently given the go-ahead by the Competition Council to raise prices and one lawmaker says he would keep an eye on their actions.
The so-called Competition Council…
Auto importer, Datis Khodro, will offer five new Volvo models in the market in the near future.
Milad Alinaqi, the company’s CEO, said Datis will purchase the XC90, New XC60, V40, S90 and…
