First Iranian diesel car to hit market by March 2015

The first Iranian-made car, powered by national diesel engine, will hit the market by the end of the Iranian calendar year 1393 (March 19, 2015), the Mehr News Agency quoted Iranian carmaker Iran Khodro’s managing director Javad Najmeddin as saying on Friday.

The 1500CC national diesel engine has 110hp output and consumes 5.2 liters per one hundred kilometer. It meets euro-5 and euro-6 standards.

On October 30, ISNA reported that the first all-Iranian car will be supplied to the market by March 2014.

Iran Khodro and Saipa, the two key Iranian carmakers, have previously introduced a number of domestically-built cars so far, namely Samand, Runna, and Tiba.

However, this is for the first time that a car will be built on a platform which has been designed and developed through the use of Iranian expertise.

It is projected that 10-12 cars in different classes will be manufactured on the Iranian-made platform.

Iran plans to manufacture at least three million cars by 2025 and export some one million sets, the Fars News Agency quoted Industry, Mine, and Trade Minister Mehdi Ghazanfari as saying on June 16.

“Some 1.6 million cars were manufactured in the past calendar year and 55,000 cars were exported,” Ghazanfari said.