The official announcement of the birth of its first national car in a big ceremony held by the Turkish car project group “TOGG” and was attended by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a large number of political and economic figures in the country.
During the ceremony, a model of the Turkish car manufactured with pure Turkish technologies was presented, which will enter service and go on the streets of Turkey within three years.
The Marketing and Display Authority of the new Turkish car production project said that the factory designated for it will open in Bursa (southwestern Istanbul) with the full support of the Turkish government, stating that the state will provide government insurance for 10 years and exemption from consumption tax and value-added tax for 10 years.
175 thousand electric cars annually
The authority indicated that the total investment value of the production of the car is 22 billion Turkish liras ($ 3.704 billion), and it will work in the project, which consists of 3 stages over a period of 15 years, 4323 workers, including 300 qualified experts.
One of the media coordinators in the authority told that the car production business plan aims to produce about 175,000 cars annually.
She added that 30,000 copies of the car, which will be launched in 2022 in the C-SUV, have been guaranteed to be sold to customers who booked it before it was put on the market with the five models, all of which are 100% electric.
The spokeswoman pointed out that the identification at 14:53 to launch the car is related to the date of the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul in 1453, noting also that the first video published on the car was at 19:23 in reference to the anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923.
According to the spokeswoman, the car operates a self-control system, and it is equipped with a permanent system to connect to the Internet, stressing that the car was designed to meet the needs of the Turkish community, its desires and requirements through a large statistical study that preceded the implementation of the project.
The whole story of Togg, the Turkish car
On Friday morning, the Turkish Official Gazette published the official document for the production and trade of the new Turkish car, to enter the real world of existence, waiting for its first version to go on the road.
The story of the Turkish car industry dates back to 1961, when the first Turkish car “Defrim” saw the light and produced only 4 copies.
In 1966, Wehbe Koç produced the first successful model of the home-made Turkish car in the factories of the giant “Autosan” company, and the car that bore the name “Anatolia” was considered the most important leap in Turkey’s efforts to own its national car at that time.
The “Anatolia” scored bright points in the field of car achievement, as it won with its Turkish driver, Ring Kogebe, in the race “First Thrace Rally” in 1968, as it caught the attention during its exhibition at a car exhibition in the British capital London in the same year.
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The company produced 93,188 cars on the market, including 62,923 regular cars, 30,265 pickups, before production ceased in 1984.
Resume the march
The Anatolia car is considered the “legal grandmother” of the modern Turkish car that Turkish President Erdogan announced his country’s intention to produce in 2011, but the project stopped after being subjected to many criticisms.
During the past decades, Turkey has acquired the rights to manufacture a group of cars, the most important of which is French Renault, which is manufactured in the state of Bursa and is one of the most widespread local cars in Turkey, in addition to Honda, Hyundai, Ford, Turin Connect, Fiat and Mercedes cars.
In early 2019, German car giant Volkswagen opened a factory to produce its cars in the Turkish city of Manisa also, while Turkey owns the rights to the production lines of many other European, Japanese and Korean cars.
But the modern Turkish car represents the culmination of manufacturing experiences in the automotive sector with pure self-efforts, and it is attended by 5 giant Turkish industrial companies, which are “Anatolia”, “BMC”, “Karaja Holding”, “Torxel” and “Zorlu Holding”.
On September 1, 2018, Muhammad Gurshan Karakash was appointed as the Group’s General Manager.
According to the Turkish official newspaper, the five companies signed a protocol for cooperation with the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology and the Federation of Turkish Chambers and Exchanges in order to form a joint group to produce the local car.
Turkish auto market
During the past year 2018, the value of Turkey’s exports of cars reached 31.6 billion dollars, an increase of 11% over the year 2017, while the Automobile Exporters Union in Turkey expected that the country’s exports would exceed 32 billion dollars in 2019.
Locally, the statistics of the Turkish Statistical Institute revealed that the number of cars registered with the Traffic Directorate branches throughout Turkey during the year 2018 exceeded 22 million vehicles.
The auto manufacturing market employs about 400,000 workers, while 50 research centers are preparing studies to develop Turkey’s auto production.
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