Author: Nader Vahhab Aghaei, Senior Expert of Automotive Industry (nader.aghaei@outlook.com)

Almost 50 years have passed since the establishment of Iran National Company. This organization, by transferring the automobile assembly technology of Talbot factory, began assembling the first Paykan automobile in Iran. Its boldness, consequently, paved the way for other organizations to turn toward assembling other automobiles such as Citroen Dyane, Renault 5, Pride, Shahin and Aria. Organizational maturity and sophistication is the least expectation from 40 years of industry and once more Iran Khodro Co. (former Iran National) showed courage and stopped its 40-year old production of Paykan to examine its own automotive capability by designing national automobiles. And if world economic limitations were not imposed upon Iran, maybe today it would unpretentiously be on the way of automotive contenders.