Paykan

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Paykan
Paykan-1.jpg
Paykan
Production period: 1967-2005
Class : Middle class
Body versions : Limousine , pick-up
Engines:
Petrol engines : 1.5–1.7 liters
(40.3–53.7 kW)
Length: 4267 mm
Width: 1613 mm
Height: 1422 mm
Wheelbase : 2502 mm
Empty weight : 885-925 kg
successor Iran Khodro Samand

Paykan ( Persian : پيکان) is the name of a car model that is very common in Iran , the most famous product from Iran National (today: Iran Khodro Industrial Group ). Paykan is based on the Persian word Peykan (arrow).

It is a mid-range vehicle that is technically based on the English Hillman Hunter model from 1966. Production in Iran started in 1967, initially from delivered parts, which were delivered as "complete knock down" (CKD) completely disassembled for assembly in Iran. In the mid-1970s , complete production - except for the engine - began in Iran. After Hillman's successor, Chrysler, ceased production in England in 1979 and sold the construction rights to Iran, the Paykan was a purely Iranian vehicle. The car was manufactured there until 2005.

The four-door is still often used as a taxi , its new price was around 6000 euros . In addition, there were other body shapes and models, a pick-up and the so-called "youth paykan" with a weaker engine.

Not only was the Paykan an immediate success, it made more money for its owner when sold as a used car than it cost as a new vehicle. On the one hand, the price increase was due to rising inflation in Iran. On the other hand, it was also due to the fact that demand far exceeded production. Initially, when production started in 1967, annual production of 7,000 vehicles was planned; in 1978, 136,000 vehicles were produced per year. Production ran in three shifts, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

  • Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda in his Paykan

  • Paykan in the countryside

  • Paykan deluxe

  • slightly damaged older Paykan

  • Paykan taxi in Tehran

  • Paykan pick-up

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Peykan.
  • Abbas Milani: Eminent Persians. Syracuse University Press, 2009, Vol. 2, p. 635.

Web links

Commons : Peykan vehicles  - collection of images, videos and audio files