China and Iran form agreement on low-cost car assembly

If you’re China, where do you go for low-cost assembly? How about Iran? Yea, we didn’t see that one coming, either. Moving to Africa seemed like a more likely choice. Anyways, Iran Khodro (refered to in the Iranian media as an “auto giant”) has reached an agreement with Youngman Automotive Group to import “knockdown kits” of YAG’s WOW subcompact from China to Iran. This agreement also paves the way for Khodro to build its Samand in China at some later point. Khodro already has an agreement with Peugeot, and produces versions of the 206 and 405 for Iranian consumption.

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If you’re China, where do you go for low-cost assembly? How about Iran? Yea, we didn’t see that one coming, either.
Moving to Africa seemed like a more likely choice. Anyways, Iran Khodro (refered to in the Iranian media as an “auto
giant”) has reached an agreement with Youngman Automotive Group to import “knockdown kits” of YAG’s WOW subcompact from
China to Iran. This agreement also paves the way for Khodro to build its Samand in China at some later point. Khodro
already has an agreement with Peugeot, and produces versions of the 206 and 405 for Iranian consumption.