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| | Iran Khodro Industrial Group:Samand LX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Samand, the National Automobile, Beginning of the production project in 1996, Made in 2000 After three decades from production of Paykan, with no alteration in its form or structure, the need to design and manufacture a new automobile quite different from the present type was strongly felt. |
 | | Therefore, Iran Khodro management decided to design and produce prototypes of the national automobile, called Samand, in Iran Khodro Research Center with cooperation of Iranian experts and engineers, in line with the national development strategies and in competition with foreign automobile manufacturing companies. |
 | | Annual production level will start with 5000 units, to be increased gradually to over 200,000 units within five years. |
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