The Iranian guess game, gotta love Khodro!

[SOUL]

After sharing a couple of Chinese lash ups of PSA's cupboard under the stairs left overs, I thought I haven't checked out what Iran Khodro have been up to for a year or so.  Well those chappies have been lashing together all sorts of odds n sods, to make a new pick up truck to out do the old Hillman Hunter....(which is now called "Bardo", a bit scary naming a truck after a failed British Eurovision entry).

 

So I give you The Arisun, no it's not a hipster hackney bakery shop, its, well.... you try and work it out....

 

http://www.ikco.ir/en/Product.aspx?ID=236&Section=1&Series=Arisun

 

To me, it looks like the front doors and wings and seals off a Peugeot 405, welded together with the skill of ex-Matra Rancho workers bodging up Simca 1100s

 

but.... it gets better or worse depending on far you spit out your cup of coffee on the next lash up....

 

 

I give you the Runna....  not content with making the old original Peugeot 206 as it is, plus the booted 206SD saloon, they also knock out the 206+ but call it the 207i, they've taken things in to their own hands with the Ikco Runna.  What the poor old Coventry tools do to deserve this? 

 

 

However not all the guessing fun end there, because I really don't know what underpins this ....

 

 

The spec reads 1800cc and BE3 gearbox, but I don't see the 405 resemblance not with the bad cut n shut look! 

 

[Cavcraft]

Haha, excellent stuff. That Sarir looks terrible, but terrible in a great way.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

The 'George' Arisun looks class, imagine that with some proper 405 front panels on

[Taff]

are the obliged by the terms of the license to make some alterations? i.e. they can't copy the original design exactly?

[dollywobbler]

I imagine it's more about trying to disguise what is obviously a Western cast-off. The Chinese are good at that one too. 

 

Coincidentally, I've been exchanging messages with someone on Facebook who has just restored a Jyane - an Iranian-built Dyane. That looks far more like the original. 

 

He says that the rear-wheel drive Pug 405s are utterly dreadful (I think they have the 1.6 Peykan engine) and that the Kia/Renault 5 Pars Khodro is an absolute flying machine.

[hairnet]

just imagine what joe would be doin if he got hold of a rwd 405 and turned it up a bit

[Richard]

I believe the RWD 405 has the 1.6 Avenger engine, which was never fitted to our Hunters but seems to be standard on the Peykan. Number 1 on my lottery shopping list.

[SOUL]

There is something awfully bad about the Khodro PK yet so mouth watering, Kia crossed with 5.

[Noel Tidybeard]

melikeylot ^^^^

[Lacquer Peel]

 

Here's another Iranian weirdo, Pazhan 4x4 based on Santana tooling but with coil springs and a Mitsubishi V6.

[flat4alfa]

The first ever Iranian electric car: Qasedak-e Nasir (dandelion of Nasir)

 

 

Lush

[Lacquer Peel]

Nice Iranian Xantia in the background.

 

 

Mercifully these face-lifted ones seem quite rare.

[pshome]

The first ever Iranian electric car: Qasedak-e Nasir (dandelion of Nasir)

 

 

Lush

 

required electricity certainly coming from nuclear power

[tooSavvy]

I bought a SAVVY on the strength of my 'liking the look of it - at the first glance - so, off to the Dealer cash in hand!'....

 

I think buying a car 'cos you fancy being in it' isn't a totally loony outlook... JUST me whose the loony 

 

 

TS

[flat4alfa]

Samand Sahel and Samand Rally

 

[Slappy]

The one on the right looks suspiciously like a Lada. Am I warm?

[Lacquer Peel]

It's Peugeot 405-based.

[brickwall]

The Arisun looks just the business.