Down to the celling of economical car/ test production will start in February

Khodrocar - In the first days of the International Auto Parts Exhibition, a memorandum of understanding was signed between SAIPA and the Specialized Association of Homogeneous Industries, Powertrain and Component Manufacturing, based on which the production of the economic vehicle of this group will be finalized under the supervision of the Ministry of Safety.

Meanwhile, on the first day of the automobile industry transformation exhibition, two future products of automobile manufacturers, which are supposed to be jointly produced by Iran Khodro and Saipa, were unveiled. According to the Saipai people, after French Citroen bought half of the shares of the Kashan site in 2015, it was decided that in addition to the assembly of the C3 model, the M4T4 project would also start at Saipai Citroen, therefore, the molds for the desired car body were made and ready for production.

"The design of the economic vehicle platform creates a new mechanism in the automobile industry, and from the design point of view, the product design is done in such a way that the cost engineering is done, which results in the least waste in the sheet.” Abdoallah Tavakoli, the Director General of the Automobile Industry Office told khodrocar reporter. 

"In this way, the frugal engineering movement in the world, which is a new paradigm that leads to the production of an efficient car with cost coverage, will be realized in this model of optimization engineering, so two knowledge-based companies will cooperate in this project. And in the field of supply, the move is towards Tiruvans and the contract with them will be with the purchase guarantee and without the intermediary of the supply chain management companies with the automaker.” He added. 

"The design of the platform will be in such a way that it will reach the economic circulation of production, so it will not be distributed among several producers so that it will be produced with a limited and small circulation, but we are looking for the Tirwans to produce with economic circulation.” He said. 

"One of the products of this family will be an electric car, which will be the cheapest electric car in the country, and since the production of this car is considered a new movement in the automobile industry, we need to hold many meetings with different groups in this field.” He continued. 

The Director General of the Automobile Industries Office of the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade also states regarding the expected price range for the economic car: ”the price range considered for this car is a product family and from the beginning to the end it has a price range that It will cover starting from 150 million tomans and up to 260 million tomans, which will include different products with different options.”

Emphasizing the modernity of this car despite its low price, he adds: This car will definitely pass the necessary safety tests and its competitors will be Hyundai I10, Mitsubishi Mirage and Suzuki Alto.

"Major suppliers in this project have announced their readiness, therefore it is expected that this project will start its work with more than 90% internalization. The best in the world in these areas. So that the best products available in this field have been modeled by domestic engineers.” He said. 

He announced the trial production of this product in Bahman 1402 and stated: At present, the prototypes have been produced and we are conducting their initial tests.