Diar Automobile Company (in

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دیار خودرو) is an automobile company based in

Golpayegan Golpayegan () is a city in the Central District of Golpayegan County, Isfahan, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. The city is northwest of Isfahan and southeast of Arak, at an altitude of 1,830 m. Its temperat ...

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. Established in 2000, the company manufacturers SUVs and pick-ups under license from China's Changcheng, also known as,

Great Wall Motor Great Wall Motor Company Limited ( zh, s=长城汽车, hp=Chángchéng Qìchē), trading as GWM, is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Baoding, Hebei, China. Named after the Great Wall of China, the company largely produces sport-u ...

. Diar also manufactures their own vehicles. Their flagship vehicle, the ''Safir'', is based on the Great Wall Wingle and shares its name with one of Iran's rockets.

History

Sazehaye Khodro Diar Manufacturing Co. was established in 2000, for the production of vehicle body-pressed parts through investments made by the private sector. By installation and setting up 6 units of 500 to 2000 tons hydraulic and Heavy Stroke Presses in January 2003, the Company managed to obtain the Exploitation License for body-pressed parts. In line with its developmental plans and recognizing vacant market capacity for pick-up and SUV in the country and in the region, this company studied the feasibility to co-operate with a few world large vehicle manufacturing companies in order to produce these products in

. The result of the study and negotiations with the candidate companies, led to the selection and conclusion of an agreement with

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. Following the agreement made with GWM Co. and having obtained the Establishment License for the production of 50,000 units of single and double cabin pick-ups as well as SUVs in 2004, the construction of a 50,000M² plant in an area of 140,000M² in Golpaigan township of Esfahan Province (

golpayegan Golpayegan () is a city in the Central District of Golpayegan County, Isfahan, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. The city is northwest of Isfahan and southeast of Arak, at an altitude of 1,830 m. Its temperat ...

) has been started. Obtaining the Exploitation License and necessary permits from the Ministry of Industry and Mines, the Standard Bureau, the Environment Protection Organisation and other related organizations, Setad-e-Tabsareh 13 (13th. Note Headquarters) for instance, presently, as the first phase, through setting up of Final Painting Lines, assembling and testing of vehicle and by making use of CKD parts and partly procurement from local sources, has started the production and delivery of Diar single and double cabin pick-ups.

Current Products

* BAIC D20 hatchback * BAIC X25 crossover * Diar BJ40 SUV *

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crossover, actually a rebadged DX5 * Tigard X35 crossover

Former Products

* BAIC Sabrina hatchback * BAIC Senova sedan * Great Wall Deer pickup * Great Wall Wingle 3 pickup *

Great Wall Wingle 5 The Great Wall Wingle is series of pick-up trucks manufactured by the Chinese company Great Wall Motors (风骏) since 2010. Originally launched as a single pickup model, the model was since updated and facelifted multiple times with different va ...

pickup * Great Wall Haval M4 crossover * Great Wall Haval H6 crossover

References

External links

Official Website (in English)
* fa, http://www.nirookhodro.com/, link=no Official Sales Website Diar Automobile Company Truck manufacturers of Iran Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2000