Maserati and Lamborghini pull out of IranFiled under: Car Buying, Government/Legal, Lamborghini, Maserati, Middle East, Luxury
Daimler is out,
Toyota is out,
Porsche is out,
Hyundai, PSA
Peugeot-
Citroën are out and when it comes to selling cars in
Iran, now
Maserati and
Lamborghini are out, too. The definitive pullouts of those last two automakers are said to be reactions to a press conference held by a group called United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI). The group highlights businesses that sell in both the US market and Iran, and works to get those businesses to choose one market or the other.
UANI said it had sent letters to Maserati and Lamborghini about their dealings in Iran, but that the letters went unanswered. Mark Wallace, head of UANI and a former US ambassador to the United Nations, held a press conference in October of last year that referenced the two companies. Apparently Lamborghini contacted Wallace just after the press conference and told him "they were out, they weren't doing any business in Iran anymore."
Discussions with
Maserati then took place, and the Italian automaker said it had been out of Iran ever since
Fiat announced
it was leaving the country in May 2011. UANI said Maserati had been in talks with an Iranian distributor, however, and that distributor was continuing to use the Maserati name. The carmaker has since cut all ties with Iranian interests and has prevented its name from being used, adding that its new models will not be able to be sold there because they won't pass regulations the country's regulations.
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