Islamic Iran showcases first home-made auto engine at German expo

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Iran is displaying its first home-made auto engine at the 2008
Engine Expo, currently taking place in the south German city
of Stuttgart, an Iranian auto official told IRNA on Wednesday.

The head of the marketing and sales department of Iran Khodro's
engine research center (IPCO), Amir Hossein Baradaran Ghanad
said this was IPCO's first attendance at this year's three-day
Stuttgart engine expo (May6-9).

"We have exhibited an Iranian-made gas fuelled engine at the
fair and the overall response has been very positive.

Iran is the first Islamic country to have the capacity to build
its own engine," Baradaran Ghanad added.

Pointing to surging global oil prices, he expressed that the
sale of such an environmental-friendly engine could eventually
find a place on the international engine market.

Baradaran Ghanad stressed tests had shown that the engine
met also European quality standards and hence could be
used in other countries.

Auto companies from nearly 60 countries, among them,
Germany, the US, France, Italy, Britain, Austria, Greece,
Turkey, Portugal, Switzerland, Australia, and Slovenia are
taking part at the 10th Engine Expo in Stuttgart.

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