Although today, many years ago, Togg is the first name that comes to mind when it comes to domestic cars Our successful and unsuccessful car manufacturing ventures has happened.

Zafer, one of the products of this initiative, was to be released with three different models, but reportedly “couldn’t withstand the pressure”. Bride, To Zafer’s story Let’s take a closer look at that.

The win wasn’t our first failed automotive venture.

Earlier we talked about the “Signature”, which was introduced as “Turkey’s first domestic car”. Like Zafer, who we’ll talk about shortly, we never will We couldn’t see it on the street. Of course, Signature’s story and reasons were very different… If you want to read the details of the content, we leave it below:

Zafer’s story, which was unfortunately a failed attempt, dates back to the 1960s.

Turkish Automotive Industries Inc. (TOE) was founded in 1955 within OYAK and contacted Volvo for the first steps of domestic car production in Turkey. Even before the promotion is over It’s cancelled.

After this failed attempt, Türk Otomotiv Endüstrileri A.Ş signed a partnership with the British Triumph. a new beginning He decided to do it, but this decision would not bring very good results.

We lost Zafer to Israeli manufacturers.

This car, whose name will be “Zafer”; It was planned to launch the sedan model first, and then the station wagon (family type) and the pickup models, but this project was canceled before it was even introduced. “Pressure from some people and circles” It was said, but we still don’t know exactly why.

In 1967, this model was offered for sale in Haifa Israel by Autocars Israel under the name Triumph Victory. Triumph, Use the designs you have Triumph continued to produce the Victory as a CKD collection until 1973. In short, we can say that we have lost Zafer to Israeli manufacturers.

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