Paykan 1967-2005 - Under two regimes
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There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. The Iranian brand Paykan is one of them. It produced Volkswagens for the Iranian population in an assembly plant.
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As in most developing countries, motorization in Iran was initially driven by an assembly plant. From 1967, the Iran National Industrial Manufacturing Co. in Tehran purchased parts kits from the British Rootes Group, which had been taken over by Chrysler in 1964. The Persian version of the Hillman (export: Sunbeam) Hunter, a notchback sedan in the lower middle class with a 1.7 L engine launched in 1966, was produced under the Paykan (= arrow) brand. Step by step, both the annual output and the proportion of components manufactured in Iran increased. In 1971, a GT with 94 instead of 69 SAE horsepower was added. The Shah was concerned with the motorization of his people. In 1975, he promised a national production of 750,000 cars and commercial vehicles for 1980.
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