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Iranian-made Samand cars have begun to appear on UAE roads. The 1.8-litre Samand is the first car to be wholly designed and built by Iran Khodro Co., the Middle East’s largest carmaker...
IRAN
Iran Exports Cars to UAE
Iranian-made Samand cars have begun to appear on UAE roads. The 1.8-litre Samand is the first car to be wholly designed and built by Iran Khodro Co., the Middle East’s largest carmaker. The company plans to sell 1,000 of the $10,000, 5-speed Samands in its first year. Iran Khodro, which has a 62 percent market share in Iran, produced more than 200,000 vehicles during 2001. A. R. Ghane, the company’s Dubai-based manager, said that the output of various Peugeot models, assembled under license, soared by more than 60 percent to 70,000 vehicles. The company, which also produced 131,449 Paykans, a family car based on the 1960s British Hillman Hunter, aims to raise production to 400,000 vehicles a year by 2005.
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