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| 'Self igniting' Iran cars worry police | ||
| 2007-01-04 | ||
| Hundreds of Iranian-made cars have suddenly caught fire on Iran's roads over the past months, with police pointing to the Peugeot 405 as the main culprit. Now the Paris Car-B-Ques are starting to make more sense. Since the beginning of the Iranian year in March, there have been 125 incidents of cars catching fire without warning and then killing or injuring the occupants, traffic police chief Mohammad Rooyanian said Monday. We were just driving along when poof, it combusted. Inshallah.
But 100% of the drivers were muzzies "We are not to going compromise on this issue. We are emphasizing the need to improve the safety of the vehicles, so that our citizens will not be worried any more," he added. Compromise does not come easily to Muzzies. The Peugeot 405 and other well-known models from the French carmaker have been manufactured under licence since 1990 by Iran Khodro, Iran's largest car manufacturer. The combination of precision French engineering design and meticulous muslim craftsmanship "Fire service figures from the first six months of the year have said that 700 cars caught fire in Tehran, out of which 70 percent of them were manufactured by Iran Khodro," Rooyanian added. Paris can do that many in a good weekend. Iran Khodro's director of marketing Mehdi Ghasem said the problem was an "occasional technical fault in the fuel system" in cars more than two years old and emphasized that vehicles made in this Iranian year had no such fault. "Neither us nor the police have received any report on such a fault in this year's cars. Therefore, the registration process will automatically go on," he said, dismissing warnings of a ban on the car. No reports, None.
A veritable Mercedes. The state-owned Iran Khodro company has an annual production of about 550,000 cars including Iran's flagship Samand, Peugeot 206 and Peugeot Pars, which is a face-lifted 405. | ||
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #17 I think the French cars are just mad and depressed at being left in a third world country and commit suicide. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-01-04 15:46 |
| #16 "Iran Khodro's director of marketing Mehdi Ghasem ..." Ghasem up! |
| Posted by: Ghas Guzzler 2007-01-04 11:56 |
| #15 Damn this is weird. Muslims burn French cars in Paris, then French cars burn themselves in Iran. Islam vs Herbie the love bug? Seems French cars have more spine than the French government. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-01-04 11:24 |
| #14 You see they can't blame a state-owned company so it must be outside forces (Jews, U.S., etc.) responsible for the flaming cars. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2007-01-04 10:35 |
| #13 I think the fuel system must be made in Israel. It's gotta be the jooos fault. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-01-04 10:15 |
| #12 lol, McNails, but I was actually thinking of cheese, whine and white flags. I guess they'd all be consumed by the fire though, so carry on! lol, my high school youth minister (a very devout guy) had a Peugeot station wagon (one of the last ones here in the US meguesses). Anyhoo, even as truthful and honest as he was, he was trying to figure out some way to get rid of the car and collect the insurance on it. He even dreamed up a scheme to intentionally crash it, but figured he wouldn't get enough for the "totalled" insurance to pay off the remaining loan, lol! |
| Posted by: BA 2007-01-04 10:10 |
| #11 A natural progression. After all, there's only so many aircraft around. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2007-01-04 09:46 |
| #10 Suprised the self combusting car doesnt throw out a free supply of tar and feathers , considering its of French make |
| Posted by: MacNails 2007-01-04 08:24 |
| #9 The Pinto was a quarter-million seller until its very last year. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2007-01-04 08:19 |
| #8 "Despite the reports, the car still ranks as the best-selling car among automobiles in the Iranian market which are priced above 10,000 dollars," he said. which proves that Iranians love a good Car-B Que too! The state-owned Iran Khodro company has an annual production of about 550,000 cars including Iran's flagship Samand, Peugeot 206 and Peugeot Pars, which is a face-lifted 405. Double the production, full steam ahead.... Inshallah! |
| Posted by: RD 2007-01-04 07:55 |
| #7 I'm sure there is an american made part that is at fault. I sure hope we did! |
| Posted by: Spomort Greling4204 2007-01-04 07:33 |
| #6 'Self igniting' Iran cars worry police Inshallah smog equiptment, the infernal combustable kind. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-01-04 04:55 |
| #5 "We are emphasizing the need to improve the safety of the vehicles, so that our citizens will not be worried any more," he added. Yeah, get those old bombs off the road. |
| Posted by: Rolls Canardly 2007-01-04 04:29 |
| #4 I'm sure there is an american made part that is at fault. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2007-01-04 04:20 |
| #3 Something about France, their cars, and burning. Makes the new years look like a joke without GM getting backhanded. They burn just as well on new years in france as they burn in Iran I guess. Is it a manufacturing defect that some do not burn or is it a feature? |
| Posted by: newc 2007-01-04 01:16 |
| #2 electrical wiring by al-lucas, prince of (sometimes) darkness.... |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2007-01-04 01:10 |
| #1 Does the sound system shout "Allahu Akbar" before igniting? |
| Posted by: Jackal 2007-01-04 00:27 |