First Bangladeshi manufactured family car is here!

[AugenBlick]

First Bangladeshi manufactured family car is here! | HiFi Public

The first Bangladeshi made car is here name Sobari (Meaning: ‘For All’ in Bangla). The Shobari family car was made in Obhoynagor, in Jessore district, and costs only 6 lakhs and 45 thousand taka. Aside from the engine, which was made in India, everything else in the Sobari family car was made locally. The car looks quite similar to India’s Nano car. To be precise the design is almost replica to the Tata Magic IRIS. In Bangladesh this car will be re-branded as Sobari.

The diesel run car can go on 35 kilometers per liter of fuel and has a top speed of 75 kilometer per hour. It can accommodate five passengers. The car also sports LED displays and DVD quality sound system along with other modern features.

The car was displayed on Sunday, the third and last day of ‘The biggest and only show for the automotive world of Bangladesh’ which was held at the Bangabandhu International Convention Centre. The motor show started on April 18 and ended on April 20.

Mohammad Rowshan Khan, the marketing manager of Sobari family car, stated to Banglanews24 that except for the engine, this is the first car that has been manufactured in Bangladesh. He also said that if the demand for the car increases, it will help reduce unemployment and also enhance the reputation of the country. He further stated that aside from the Nano there is no other family car that is cheaper than Sobari.

The "car" is designed in India. Except for the engine it is manufactured in Bangladesh(sheet metal) under license from TATA. Here's how:
Car companies rarely develop a component alone. They always develop a platform. A platform is a collection of the frame/chassis and all possible configurations of engine+ transmission. The chassis+ engine + transmission is the platform. and different sheet metal and plastic components are placed to make a car.
This looks like Tata's Platform for magic/Iris

Now the company probably licensed it from India. But Engine manufacturing involves a lot of optimizations that are kept "secret". i.e. the injection software and geometry optimization. Hence it is being made in India.
This is what Bangladesh is doing : Sheetmetal presses and punching/welding. Plastic moulding, assembly and finishing.
Also I am not sure of the "level" of localization. E.g. a Bangladeshi manufacturer bags the headlight contract and buys bulbs from China/India and assembles in BD and claims made in BD.
Looking at the vehicle I can say it will create about 6000 DIRECT jobs in BD if it is a hit(full production).
Good news is thats how an Auto industry is set up. This is how hundai begun with support from FORD.
India will get licensing fees on this. and pretty handsomely as it is more expensive than nano.

 

[500]

Are u sure it is Bangaldehi vehivle...

Well it was in the article:

Aside from the engine, which was made in India, everything else in the Sobari family car was made locally. The car looks quite similar to India’s Nano car. To be precise the design is almost replica to the Tata Magic IRIS. In Bangladesh this car will be re-branded as Sobari.

 

[BDforever]

The owner of Nitol Tata is more Indian than Indians...

you know what pisses me off... FIAT came to BD to open manufacturing factory in BD and make special cars for BD people, But AL government did not let it in, but let TATA in

Mitsubishi also wants to do similar thing in BD for last few years. But again its AL ........ so

 

[AugenBlick]

you know what pisses me off... FIAT came to BD to open manufacturing factory in BD and make special cars for BD people, But AL government did not let it in, but let TATA in

Mitsubishi also wants to do similar thing in BD for last few years. But again its AL ........ so

Are you sure it was "Manufacturing" not a "completely knocked down" kit assembly line.

 

[BDforever]

Are you sure it was "Manufacturing" not a "completely knocked down" kit assembly line.

 

[Informant]

M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-MMAXIMUM FATALITY!

 

[AugenBlick]

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Mitsubishi and Toyota follow "Just in Time " or JIT production philosophy. To be a vendor you have to have a very very educated and efficient labor force. To train a worker for JIT would take about 2 years, over and above the knowledge of traditional manufacturing. All of this discounting the fact that the infra and supply chain has to be top notch. They were probably offering CKD kits, and it was wise to refuse else they would have had all the tax brakes for domestic "manufacturing" while paying a fraction of the taxes to the government.
Even at full capacity they would have made at most 800 Jobs.
Furthermore they would have wiped out all tier I and tier II vendor bases that create most jobs. almost 80% of a vehicle ... any vehicle is manufactured by the suppliers. This influx would have led to the Bangladeshi auto industry being just like the Pakistani Auto industry .... no local manufacturing, only assembly and monopoly. Things there are so bad they are importing 2nd hand cars from the first world.
AL did the right thing taking the harder road ... it will pay well in the long term for BD.
The real question is ... can BDians understand that???

 

[scholseys]

Jamaatis should be unleashed at this monstrosity.

 

[arp2041]

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[faisal6309]

We have our own first Pakistani manufactured car too but it is history now..
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[Dem!god]

This is copy and paste Indian junk. Still junk

lol....U are copy paste of indian DNA......and I don't know what u think of yourself......
Junk.....or junkyard.....

 

[takeiteasy]

this is a rickshaw in many parts of India. called iris or something. makes horrible 2 cylinder 4 stroke diesel "khad khad" sound.

 

[janon]

This is copy and paste Indian junk. Still junk

And still it's better than anything B'desh has come up with. So what does that say about your country, if the best they can do is copy-paste Indian "junk"?

We have our own first Pakistani manufactured car too but it is history now..
Adam Revo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Actually the first Pakistani car was Habib Sitara. Public opinion was that it is not a car, but a cart:

 

[jaibi]

Great going BD! Congratulations

 

[AugenBlick]

And still it's better than anything B'desh has come up with. So what does that say about your country, if the best they can do is copy-paste Indian "junk"?



Actually the first Pakistani car was Habib Sitara. Public opinion was that it is not a car, but a cart:

This is a joke right?? I mean a satire article ??