Our Domestic Car That We Never See on the Street: Zafer

Although Togg is the first name that comes to our mind when it comes to domestic automobiles today, many years ago Our successful and unsuccessful automobile production ventures had happened.

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

Victory wasn’t our first failed automobile venture.

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

The story of Zafer, which was unfortunately an unsuccessful attempt, dates back to the 1960s.

Turkish Automotive Industries Inc. (TOE) was founded within OYAK in 1955 and contacted Volvo for the first steps of producing a domestic automobile in Turkey. Even before the promotion is finished It is cancelled.

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

We lost Zafer to Israeli manufacturers.

This car, whose name is planned to be “Zafer”; It was planned to launch the sedan model first, and then the station wagon (family type) and pick-up 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, Using the designs you have Triumph continued to produce the Victory as a CKD collection until 1973. In short, we can say that we lost Zafer to Israeli manufacturers.

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