BMW Iran Has Aspirations of 2,000 to 3,000 Sales per Month

Which Middle Eastern country got the better deal? Not long ago Iraq got its first new car dealership in decades, a Hyundai retail outlet right in the center of Baghdad. Neighboring Iran has just received its first dealership after about 10 years, and the automaker to chance investing in an unstable market is not Hyundai, but at the other end of the economic scale BMW.

"Following painstaking procedures, we obtained permits to import our cars, and a few have

BMW Iran is the first new car dealership in the country after about 10 years. (Photo: Shawn Pisio, American Auto Press)

Not necessarily about to affect BMWs overall sales, a total of two midsize 5-Series models were successfully imported, selling for about E120,000, just less than three times German retail due to tariffs which start at 130 percent. Eight additional BMWs were still held up in customs in the southern port of Bandar Abbas, according to

A total of two midsize 5-Series models were successfully imported, selling for about E120,000, just less than three times German retail. (Photo: Shawn Pisio, American Auto Press)

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