Iranian automakers have manufactured about 1.340 million vehicles in the country in the current Iranian calendar year (to end on March 19), the director general of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade for automotive industries affairs said.
Some 1.132 million passenger cars have been produced by major car manufacturing companies in the one-year period, showing a six percent growth compared to a year earlier, Mehrdad Khosravi noted.
In this timespan, 166,000 pickups were manufactured in the country, registering a 32 percent growth compared to last year’s corresponding period, he added.
He went on to say that more than 40,000 different types of commercial cars including vans, minibuses, buses, trucks and tractor-trailers, were manufactured in the country in this period, showing about two percent up compared to the last year’s corresponding period.
In addition, about 307,000 cars were manufactured by the private sector, showing about 58 percent growth compared to the same period last year, he stated.
This year, about 600,000 motorcycles were manufactured in the country, showing about 28 percent growth compared to a year earlier, the official added.