Iran Khodro unveils national diesel engine

The Middle East's largest automaker, Iran Khodro Company (IKCO), has unveiled a new national diesel engine on Tuesday.

Iran Khodro unveiled the national diesel engine in a ceremony attended by the Minister of Industries and Mines Ali-Akbar Mehrabian.

The new lightweight 1.5-liter turbo-diesel uses advanced technology to deliver strong power and torque of 256Nm while improving on fuel economy.

Fuel consumption on the engine will be 5 liters per 100 kilometers in combined cycle.

“Iran has successfully produced light duty diesel engines to complete its fuel basket,” Mehrabian said.

“Iranian designer had previously designed and manufactured diesel engine for power plants with 1,000 steam horsepower and today they successfully made it for cars,” he added.

Iran spent 20 million dollars for the design and manufacturing of the engine and it's estimated to cost less than 1,000 dollars in mass production.

The striking engine has achieved emission standard of Euro 5, featuring a Diesel Particulate Filters (DPF) as well as a new Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR).

Diesel Particulate Filters (DPF) eliminates the diesel particulate matter or soot from the exhaust gas of a diesel engine. The Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) is a nitrogen oxide emissions reduction technique to lower exhaust emissions.

Otri Inaugurates 2nd phase of Cars Manufacturing in Syria

Under the patronage of President Bashar al-Assad, the 2nd phase of cars manufacturing in the Syrian Iranian Automobile Manufacturing Company Siamco, (halls of body and cars painting) was inaugurated today by Premier Mohammad Naji Otri.

In a statement to journalists, Otri underlined the active, deep-rooted and solid relations between Syria and Iran , reiterating the importance of upgrading the economic relations to the level of the distinguished political relations.

He pointed out that the government is working actively to integrate investments in the country and encourage investors to invest in various fields of production to support and strengthen the national economy.

SAIPA outpaces Iran Khodro first time ever

SAIPA left behind its longtime rival car manufacturer, Iran Khodro Company (IKCO), in the first half of the year (Iranian year started March 21, 2006) by substantial gap, the Persian service of ISNA reported.

This was the first time ever, the manufacturer of popular Pride passenger cars outran the IKCO in over a decade-long competition. Thanks to production of 195,450 Prides in the first six months which outpaced the record annual production of past-time favorite of Iran's auto market, the bygone Paykan.

The period witnessed total of 222,520 passenger and commercial vehicles churned out by SAIPA, whereas IKCO had to be happy with 175,000. The figure is still far off from the announced annual production of 600,000.

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