Iran Khodro

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Iran Khodro

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legal form Public company
founding 1962
Seat Tehran , Iran
management Javad Najmoddin ( CEO )
Number of employees 53,000 (2011)
sales € 9.776 billion ($ 12.8 billion USD) (2011)
Branch automobile
Website www.ikco.ir/en

Iran Khodro (IKCO) ( Persian ایران خودرو) is the largest automobile manufacturer in Iran . Persian خودرو( Chodro ) means car in German.

description

IKCO is a state-run company that was founded on August 18, 1962 in Tehran by Ahmad and Mahmoud Khayami. Before the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the company was known as Iran National . Iran Khodro had the greatest success so far in the course of its more than 40-year company history with the Paykan mid-range car . Its production ended in May 2005.

Today Iran Khodro produces various vehicles, including licensed and in-house developments:

  • Samand (in the variants SE , LX , ELX , Soren and Sarir )
  • Dena (planned as the successor to Samand from 2012)
  • Peugeot 206 and 206 SD (notchback variant)
  • Runna (based on the Peugeot 206; a hybrid car version of this is in preparation)
  • Peugeot 207 (Peugeot 206+)
  • Peugeot 405 and the derived Peugeot Roa (with rear-wheel drive)
  • Peugeot Pars (based on the Peugeot 405)
  • Suzuki Grand Vitara
  • Tondar 90 (based on the Dacia Logan )
  • Bardo (pick-up based on the previous Paykan / Hillman Hunter )

Iran Khodro also produces trucks under license with various subsidiaries, for example various trucks and buses from Mercedes-Benz ( Actros and Sprinter ), Hyundai (Mighty and Chorus models) and MAN .

Engines

IKCO EF7 dual-fuel four-cylinder engine

The IKCO EF engines are four-cylinder engines. The EF7 series was jointly developed by the Iran Khodro Powertrain Company (IPCO) and the German company FEV Motorentechnik . IPCO is the powertrain manufacturer who designs and produces the engines for Iran Khodro vehicles.

brand names

For the Paykan model, the brand name was also Paykan (English Peykan ). In addition, Iran Khodro has been used since 1979 or 1984 .

Vehicle gallery

  • Mercedes-Benz fire engine from Iran Khodro

  • Mercedes-Benz trucks from Iran Khodro

  • Paykan

  • Samand LX from Iran Khodro

literature

Web links

Commons : Iran Khodro  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Top 100 Iranian Companies ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.5 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / imi100.imi.ir
  2. ↑ Iran Investment, Volume 5, No. 54 from March 2011 On: Turquoise Partners (accessed on May 8, 2016)
  3. ↑ Iran Khodro unveils luxury car Dena ( Memento from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) from April 17, 2011. (English, accessed on May 8, 2016)
  4. ↑ hybrid Runna project triggered. Fars News online, January 27, 2014 (accessed May 8, 2016)
  5. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Iran Khodro and Peykan.
  6. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed May 8, 2016)