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Old April 23rd, 2012, 10:20 AM   #121
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this guy is literally the definition of a troll, a name like that, 5 posts, and already trying to derail this thread into a dick measuring contest, seriously we get it, you make cars, MOVE ON.
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this guy is literally the definition of a troll, a name like that, 5 posts, and already trying to derail this thread into a dick measuring contest, seriously we get it, you make cars, MOVE ON.
Looollllll 3r measuring contest!
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this guy is literally the definition of a troll, a name like that, 5 posts, and already trying to derail this thread into a dick measuring contest, seriously we get it, you make cars, MOVE ON.
There would be no point in him attempting that because we all know who would win.
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Old April 26th, 2012, 10:57 PM   #124
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License plates go for $4000 and up in Iraq as rising car sales put pressure on scarce supply




by Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, April 26, 11:06 AM


BAGHDAD — By the time Ibrahim Khaled Mohammed turned to a car dealer looking for an offer, his 1983 Volkswagen Passat could barely move.

But here in the Iraqi capital, the bald tires, balky engine and three decades of wear weren’t much of a problem. What the buyer really wanted was the old white license plate, a commodity far more valuable than the rusting clunker itself.


The dealer paid Mohammed $3,800, counted out in U.S. hundred-dollar bills.

“Without the plate, it wouldn’t have been worth more than $500,” Mohammed said.

Demand for new cars is soaring in Iraq as salaries rise and the level of violence creeps lower. That is good news for automakers such as General Motors Co. and Kia Motors Corp., which are reporting a big jump in sales here.

The boom is proving lucrative too for dealers of recycled license plates, who profit from a quintessentially Iraqi conundrum: In many cases, the government will not issue new plates on vehicles bought from private dealerships.

As a result, many new car buyers pay middlemen for plates salvaged from old vehicles. That can add thousands of dollars to the price of a new car — effectively imposing a tax on first-time buyers that ends up in the hands of savvy businessmen rather than government coffers.

“Go to a car dealer, and they’ll say: Do you want it with a plate or without?” said Ibrahim Jamil, a businessman who occasionally deals in cars. “If you have the money, you can find a plate.”

Prices for popular Baghdad tags have skyrocketed past $4000, up from just a few hundred dollars in 2005, according to Jamil and others in the trade. Those looking for plates often turn to extended family or friends, and even knock on the doors of strangers with a broken-down jalopy parked outside, hoping they’d be willing to sell the tags.

Because Iraqi plates include the name of the province, those from ethically and religiously mixed regions like the capital are more valuable than ones from areas where one sect predominates. The cheapest plates, dealers say, come from Anbar, Diyala and Salahuddin — provinces where Iraq’s minority Sunnis are concentrated.

“If you’re a Shiite living in a Shiite neighborhood, you won’t buy a plate from Ramadi,” the capital of Anbar, said plate dealer Khaled Diwan. “You’d be too afraid.”

He estimates he makes $500 on each plate he sells. For around $4,500, he can find you a plate and take care of the paperwork of changing the plate’s registration to the new car owner. The real value, though, is getting enough plates to have ready-installed on the new Hyundais and Kias he sells out of a friend’s dealership.

“A car with a plate already on it (is) much easier to sell,” he said.

A surge in new car sales is driving up demand.

General Motors says it sold 32,000 vehicles in Iraq last year. That is up from 19,000 in 2010 and fewer than 1,500 just five years ago.

Iraq recently became GM’s second biggest regional market after Saudi Arabia, said John Stadwick, the company’s Mideast president and managing director. Business is so good that GM is building a fancy new showroom that Stadwick predicts “will probably be the nicest building in Baghdad” when it opens later this year.

Ford and Chrysler are reporting gains too. So are European and Asian automakers. South Korea's Kia sold more than 9,000 vehicles in the first three months of this year, up 47 percent over the same period a year ago, according to spokesman Michael Choo.

But the plates problem is a brake slowing sales, say those in the industry. "Especially for small cars," said Mohammed Khadr, the sales and marketing manager for GM's distributor. "A guy who's buying a $10,000 vehicle still has to pay $5000 for the plate. ... That's a 50 percent increase."

Hassan al-Kaabi, the Baghdad-based sales manager for Volkswagen and Audi, said he has an employee who specializes in finding plates for customers.

"The buyer doesn't have the time, so we do it for them. It's just another service we provide," he said during an interview in a new reinforced glass showroom in Baghdad's bustling Karrada neighborhood. The service doesn't come free, though. "Of course they complain about the prices," he said.

The government does issue new plates in some cases.

One is if you buy a new car from the state-run dealer or through infrequent government auctions. But many customers bypass the government offerings because the selection and add-on options are limited, and it can take months before popular models become available.

New plates are also available under a government program aimed at getting the large number of aging clunkers off the road — the legacy of a flood of used cars that poured into Iraq following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Those cars received black temporary plates issued amid the chaos after Saddam Hussein's fall. So owners of a temporary-plated car above a certain age can bring it to a state junkyard and walk away with a new, white plate to put on a new car — though after paying what might add up to hefty back fees.

Brig. Najim Abdul-Jaber, spokesman for the Traffic Police Directorate, defends the limits on new plates as a way to limit congestion and remove aging vehicles. He has little sympathy for Iraqis who complain the unregulated plate market drives up prices.

"The people who buy new cars don't care. They're happy to pay that much to show off their new cars," he said.
Khadr, from the GM distributor, argues that the number of old cars has thinned, and it's time for a straightforward registration system "like anywhere in the world.

"More people would be willing to buy new cars if you didn't have this system," agreed Diwan, the Hyundai and Kia salesman. "It makes things difficult."

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Associated Press writer Sameer N. Yacoub contributed reporting

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Old April 28th, 2012, 11:01 AM   #125
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النقل تؤكد أن شوارع بغداد ستشهد الشهر المقبل دخول باصات حديثة ذات طابقين







السومرية نيوز/ بغداد

أعلنت وزارة النقل العراقية، الجمعة، أن شوارع بغداد ستشهد منتصف شهر أيار المقبل دخول باصات حديثة ومتطورة ذات طابقين تم استيرادها مؤخراً، مؤكدة أنها تعمل بمنظومة للمراقبة الالكترونية المركزية.

وقال مدير عام الشركة العامة لنقل المسافرين والوفود التابعة لوزارة النقل عادل جبار الساعدي في حديث لـ"السومرية نيوز"، إن "منتصف شهر أيار المقبل سيشهد نزول باصات حديثة متطورة ذات الطابقين إلى شوارع بغداد وتمتاز بالتقنية العالية"، مبيناً أن "هذه الباصات تعمل بمنظومة GBS وهي مراقبة الكترونية مركزية".

وأضاف الساعدي أن شركته "سبق أن تعاقدت مع شركة إلباهاوس وهي شركة عراقية أردنية وتم استيراد 60 باصاً متطورة بطابقين والقطع فيها الكتروني، فضلاً عن استيراد عشرة أخرى طابق واحد وشراء 96 حافلة حديثة للنقل بين بغداد والمدن".

وكانت وزارة النقل أعلنت في (1 شباط 2012)، عن استيراد 70 حافلة من شركة عراقية أردنية بكلفة 14.5 مليون دولار، في حين أكدت أن معوقات ستواجه عمل تلك الحافلات في شوارع بغداد، كشفت عن توقيع عقد أخر مع نفس الشركة لاستيراد 100 حافلة أخرى.

ووقعت الشركة العامة لنقل المسافرين التابعة لوزارة النقل في كانون الأول من العام 2010 عقداً مع شركة الباهاوس العراقية الأردنية لشراء 60 حافلة ذات طابقين و10 حافلات ذات طابق واحد .

وتمتلك وزارة النقل ما يعادل 50% من أسهم شركة البهاوس التي ستكون الوكيل ألحصري لبيع الحافلات في العراق.

يذكر أن الحافلات دخلت إلى العراق في نهاية الأربعينيات من القرن الماضي مع توسع مدينة بغداد فدخلت بعض حافلات بطابق واحد نوع كوير ثم آسى الحمراء وسيارة كان يطلق عليها (أم اللوكة) ثم جاءت (لالستر الحمراء) و(اعلاندون) وكانت هذه السيارات مقسمة إلى قسمين المقاطع الأمامية من القماش وتكون أجرتها خمسة عشر فلساً والمقاعد الخشبية بعشرة فلوس.
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Old April 28th, 2012, 06:02 PM   #126
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Good to hear. We need hundreds though. Hope they order more sometime soon.. It's good as a start though.
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Old April 29th, 2012, 10:16 AM   #127
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Yea the public transport needs investments and improvements in general and this is a good step in the right direction.


Nissan Opens Major Service Centre in Erbil

Aswat al-Iraq reports that Japanese auto-maker Nissan will open its biggest service center in the Middle East in May in the city of Erbil.

“Iraq started to take positive steps in investment by providing appropriate [conditions],” Ahmad al-Kaswani, general director of Carzone, told the news agency.

Carzone is part of the Sardar Group.

(Source: Aswat al-Iraq)
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Old April 29th, 2012, 04:46 PM   #128
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المباشرة في تجهيز سيارات الاجرة بالعلامات الجديدة بمواصفات حديثة

2012-04-27

باشرت الشركة العامة لادارة النقل الخاص احدى تشكيلات وزارة النقل بتجهيز سيارات الاجرة بعلامات جديده على وفق مواصفات حديثه وبشتى الالوان لمدينة بغداد وباقي المحافظات حيث تم فتح منفذي تجهيز في جانبي الكرخ والرصافة ، اضافة الى منافذ التجهيز في باقي محافظات البلاد.
وقال مدير عام الشركة المهندس عبد ألله لعيبي في تصريحات صحفية حضرتها « الصباح الجديد « أن الشركة ستباشر قريبا بتنفيذ مرآب ليكون محطة لنقل المسافرين في محافظة النجف الاشرف على وفق المواصفات العالمية ويضم مجموعة من ابنية الخدمات التي توفر الراحة للمسافرين وسواق الحافلات بالشكل الامثل .
واضاف لعيبي ان الشركة باشرت بتجهيز مركبات التاكسي الجوال بعلامات جديدة ، مبينا أن الشركة قامت بفتح منفذي تجهيز في جانبي الكرخ والرصافة، ومنافذ تجهيز في جميع محافظات البلاد اضافة الى فتح منفذين آخرين في منطقتي الكاظمية والبياع .
واوضح أن هذه العلامات تحمل تصاميم وأشكالا متميزة تختلف عن جميع علامات التاكسي المتداولة في الأسواق المحلية، مشيرا الى إن كل محافظة سيكون لها لونها الخاص ، داعيا جميع أصحاب مركبات التاكسي الجوال في بغداد والمحافظات بوضع هذه العلامات الجديدة على مركباتهم وبخلافه سيتحمل أصحاب هذه المركبات غرامات مالية.
وشدد لعيبي على ان الشركة ستتابع المخالفين من قبل مفارزها و ومفارز المرور العامة ، مؤكدا على أن تطبيق هذه العملية هي من أجل تنظيم عمل مركبات التاكسي الجوال فضلا عن وضع قاعدة بيانات جديدة بأعداد مركبات التاكسي الجوال التي دخلت عن طريق وزارتي التجارة والصناعة والقطاع الخاص ومشاريع المحافظات .
على صعيد متصل اعلن مدير عام شركة النقل الخاص عن قرب المباشرة بتنفيذ مرآب دولي في محافظة النجف الاشرف لمكانتها المقدسة التي يؤمها ملايين الزوار سنويا من خارج وداخل العراق ، لافتا الى الى ان تنفيذ المشروع ياتي بضوء توجيهات وزير النقل بعد افتتاح مرآب كربلاء الدولي الشهر الماضي ضمن خطة الشركة باقامة مرائب دولية تكون محطات نقل مسافرين متكاملة على غرار ما موجود في الدول المتقدمة وحول موقع المرآب .
واشار لعيبي الى ان الشركة اختارت موقعا متميزا بين الكوفة والنجف بمساحة 40 دونما يحتوي على بناية متعددة الطوابق وساحات لوقوف السيارات وبناية فندقية ومحطة وقود وغسل وتشحيم ومصرف ومركز صحي وصالات انتظار للمسافرين مكيفة وسيكون عمل المرآب لخدمة النقل الدولي وللمواطنين الراغبين بالتوجه لدول الجوار .
كما تجري الشركة تنسيقا مع محافظة البصرة لتخصيص قطعة ارض لاقامة مرآب دولي في المحافظة كما تجري الشركة اجراءات تسجيل قطعة ارض في محافظة صلاح الدين لاقامة مرآب سامراء الدولي على ارض مساحتها 40 دونم وتجري حاليا اتصالات مع محافظة واسط لتخصيص قطعة ارض بمنطقة بدرة لانشاء مرآب دولي فيها لزيادرة حركة النقل بين العراق وايران عبر هذا المنفذ الحدودي .
وعن امكانية اقامة مرآب دولي في العاصمة بغداد دعا مدير عام شركة النقل الخاص امانة بغداد تخصيص قطعة ارض مناسبة لاقامة مثل هذا المرآب الحيوي ، اذ تشير التوقعات الى زيادة حركة النقل بين العراق ودول الجوار وكانت الشركة قد نفذت مشروعا لاقامة مرآب دولي في منطقة حي العدل الا ان العمل توقف جراء التجاوز عليه من قبل بعض المواطنين بعد احداث 2003،
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Iran Khodro Plans to Manufacture 30,000 Cars in Iraq This Year

Iran Khodro Co., the country’s largest carmaker, said it plans to manufacture 30,000 cars, mostly the Samand sedan, at a production site in neighboring Iraq this year.

The company is delivering components to its Iraq plant for assembly, Iran Khodro said in an e-mailed statement today. Operations at the Iraq plant, which has received investment from a local partner, started in 2011, the company said, without giving details about the partnership or the location.

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Old May 16th, 2012, 03:22 AM   #130
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Horrible idea,
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well, atleast it's helping our economy in some form i guess .. tho i much rather see Iraq making its own car from scratch !!
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Horrible idea,
why?
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i think his post was targeted at the quality of cars produced in Iran
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why?
Iraq should go for german, French, American, or Japanese not junky Iranian cars.
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Exactly go for cheap nissan, fiat, toyota!!!
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Iraq should go for german, French, American, or Japanese not junky Iranian cars.
Are they offering a better deal than the Iranians?
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We are a rich country we should go for quality first. However it is understandable how the iraqis minds that are in charge work.
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We are an ignorant country, we have no skilled workforce to manufacture COMPLICATED (to us, yes) NIssan, Toyota or even Proton cars! I think those Samands produced in Iraq would be worse quality than the Iranian ones.... shut up
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We are an ignorant country, we have no skilled workforce to manufacture COMPLICATED (to us, yes) NIssan, Toyota or even Proton cars! I think those Samands produced in Iraq would be worse quality than the Iranian ones.... shut up
Skilled Foreign supervisors and inspectors would solve the problem.
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