Peugeot 207i. Picture by Afshin Khaledi, all rights reserved. * See 'Read more' for the Top 8 best-selling models. Many thanks to Afshin for the data! * The Saipa Pride is still the best-selling car in Iran by a very large margin with 47,261 sales: compare that with the 54,410 Ford F-Series…
Saipa 132/Pride * See the Top 10 most produced models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! The Iran Vehicles Manufacturers Association (IVMA) production data for August is now out. Total production is up 4% at 95,406 units and up 2% year-to-date at 533,508. The Saipa Pride (a…
Iran street scene. Picture: Afshin Khaledi * Now updated with the Top 10 best-selling imported cars thanks to Afshin Khaledi! * I can now share with you on top of the most produced car in Iran a Top 10 of the best-selling imported models in the country. The figures are very…
Saipa Tiba * Many thanks to Max from Italy for sharing the data source for this post! * The Iran Vehicles Manufacturers Association (IVMA) publishes car production data monthly so I am now able to share with you for the first time some official monthly figures for Iran. In the Iranian…
Over 600.000 Saipa Pride were produced in Iran in 2010. According to the Iran Vehicles Manufacturers Association (IVMA), 1.367.014 cars and 196.752 light commercial vehicles were produced in Iran in 2010 for a total of 1.563.766 units, making it one of the Top 10 car markets in the world. Saipa…
Saipa Tiba Iran is the biggest car market in the Middle-East with an estimated 1 million+ cars sold each year. Two main manufacturers share the market: Iran Khodro (IKCO) and Saipa. Saipa has launched the new Tiba, destined to become the brand's biggest seller: 15,000 units were built in 2009…
The Saipa Pride is estimated to top the Iranian charts over the period. We haven't manage to compile brand or models production and/or sales data for this period in Iran. Looking at the 2010 rankings, it makes sense to assume the Saipa Pride continues to dominate the sales charts in…
Saipa is now the #1 brand in Iran with over 380.000 sales. 2006 is a historical year for new light vehicle sales in Iran: up 8.1% year-on-year to break the symbolic 1 million annual unit milestone for the first time at 1.041.321. This marks a stunning 12 consecutive years of…
The Saipa Pride sells over 340.000 units in Iran in 2005. It's an 11th straight record year for the Iranian new car market in 2005, up 10.1% year-on-year to 962.886 units. Peugeot (+31.4%) confirms it is the most popular brand in market, lurching to a record 36% share while Saipa…
Saipa Pride Saba Production numbers are available for the 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 periods in Iran, giving a pretty accurate idea of which cars are the best-sellers in the country. The Saipa Pride, a 1986 Kia Pride in hatchback (Nasim) and sedan (Saba) versions, is the most popular model in the country…
Peugeot is the best-selling brand in Iran in 2004, but just. The Iranian new car market celebrates a full decade of volume records in 2004 with sales up another fantastic 22.3% to 874.788, to be compared with just 77.560 in 1995. Peugeot (+29.7%) leapfrogs past Iran Khodro (+14.2%) and Saipa…
The Saipa Pride is the best-selling vehicle in Iran for the first time. It's another fantastic 37.4% year for Iranian new car sales in 2003 top 715.079 units which is the 9th consecutive all-time record year. In the brands ranking, we witness a equalising of the main three local manufacturers…
The Paykan closes a reign over Iranian sales that started in 2002. No sign of abating for the Iranian new car market growth in 2002 at +42.3% to brilliantly cross the half-million mark for the first time in history at 520.544 sales. Iran Khodro (+26.5%) visibly trails the market gain…
The Iran Khodro Paykan has now been #1 in Iran for 35 consecutive years. The Iranian new car market continues to gallop ahead with a stunning 28% surge in 2001 to a new record 365.932 units, cementing a 7th consecutive record year and an almost 5-fold increase since 1995 (77.500).…
The Iran Khodro Paykan celebrates 30 years in Iran in 1997. After crossing the 100.000 annual sales milestone for the first time in history in 1996, the Iranian market continues to boom in 1997 at +43.5% to almost 170.000 units, with the Paykan (+25.4%) still accounting for every second sale…