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The serial production of Turkish Saab 9-3 can be launched in May 2018

Saab 9-3 from TurkeyElectric Saab 9-3 from Turkey

Turkey will accelerate launching the serial production of the country’s domestic car based on Saab 9-3 platform, Turkish Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Fikri Isık said March 4. Earlier, Turkey planned to start serial production of the country’s domestic car in 2019, Kanal7 TV channel reported citing Isık as saying.

The minister added that after the work is accelerated in this area, the serial production can be launched May 2018. The local car modelled on Saab 9-3 will come in different body types and power units. Earlier, the minister said Turkey acquired a license from Sweden’s car maker NEVS to produce a car modelled on Saab 9-3.

Turkish national car based on Saab 9-3
Turkish national car based on Saab 9-3

Turkey is interested in exporting the domestically produced cars to Azerbaijan, Turkish Science, Industry and Technology Ministry earlier told Trend. The ministry said that Turkey is also interested in exporting cars to a number of foreign countries once the car mass production starts.

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Turkey ranks sixth in Europe in terms of car production. It produces cars of such brands as Ford, FIAT, Renault, Toyota, Honda, Opel, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz and MAN. Aside from that, Turkey manufactures buses of local brands – BMC, Temsa and Otokar.

Goran Aničić
the authorGoran Aničić
For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.

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