Hyundai Iran Rolls First Vehicles off of New Line

While BMW just became the first automotive company to export cars into Iran in decades, South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. just finished production of its first Iranian-made vehicles, celebrating line-off last Wednesday. "The first Hyundai Verna models assembled by Kerman Motor were delivered to their Iranian customers today," commented a spokeswoman for the Kerman Automotive Industries Co., the automaker's Iranian partner in a Reuters report.