Turkish Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Fikri Işık responded the questions at a televised program held at the Turkish state-run TV, TRT Haber. Indicating there were two ways for the domestic made automobile, one of them is to make a prototype including every aspect of the car. Such a work would take 3-5 years to manufacture as well as required a cost worth $1 billion, he said. As for the second way in manufacturing a new domestic made car, he continued; “In fact, this might mean to rediscover America. What is the second way? To make cooperation with the firms which have dealt with this area, as well as known and proved itself, before everything it requires owning a platform of which intellectual property rights belong to you. We made a decision between these two alternatives and we said that let’s not spend time for 5 years and money of $1 billion. If we purchase an existing intellectual property rights, and continue to technology development on this, we would have begun at least 3 years early together with fiscal advantage of $1 billion. In this point, we conducted a serious research and so we determined that Saab 9-3 platform was very suitable for us.” “We purchased all intellectual property rights of Saab 9-3” Minister Işık said an intensive work was made and they had purchased all intellectual property rights as well as patent rights, adding that they had a ready vehicle to develop. “This allows us to win a time at least 3-5 years and we have let this vehicle be gained to Turkey with a very suitable cost, but now we are at A point of the issue. Our main aim is to make a long-range electric vehicle. There will be a platform and we have begun to improve this platform. TUBITAK will assume a significant leadership. We will maintain our cooperation with Nevs firm in this area,” he said. Minister Işık said Saab had a good technology. It is known with its very high quality, comfortable features, as well as being a robust vehicle. The all intellectual property rights of the brand belong to us he said. The brand will be a Turkish brand.
We Buy All Rights Of Saab 9-3: Minister Işık
