Many people got to know the idea of a car produced in Turkey, created by Turkish engineers, with TOGG. In fact, there have been many initiatives in automobile production in our country in the past.
Today is October 29, 2022 and 99th anniversary of our republic we celebrate. One of the highlights of these celebrations is the new domestic and national car of our country, TOGG. On the other hand, the passion for automobiles in our country TOGG it didn’t start with, even this passion actually Even from the Republic of Turkey it predates.
Bride From the Ottoman Palace Let’s look at the most important milestones of this difficult journey from beginning to the present day. From the very beginning of our journey, Sultan II. Abdulhamid’s We start with the throne room…
The first acquaintance of the Turks with the automobile
According to many historians, Turks, tamer of horses It is among the first communities. Since the horses of that period were smaller, not many people could use them except the short and agile Turks. So behind the horses cars hanging. Then these chariots evolved and evolved. to cars turns into
After the car appears First car to Istanbul had come. If you own this car, of course. Sultan II. Abdulhamid had happened. Even at that time, he sent a letter to the sultan from England. electric car had been brought. Adopting cars so much II. Abdulhamid actually To the declaration of the Constitutional Monarchy He banned cars called zat’ülhareke.
The first car was more like a mechanical marvel. on Istiklal Street On display, the first automobile to enter the traffic was in 1895. Züheyrzade Ahmed Pasha He had a car. At that time, the car was seen in Istanbul only in and around Beşiktaş. cars Turkish people she loved it very much. He would see the reward of this love with the Republic.
Auto assembly begins
1929 American for automobile assembly in Ford Motor Company An agreement was signed with the government. Although assembly is criticized today, since there was no trained population at that time, such initiatives were important for using the workforce and learning how to make cars. The signed agreement was for 25 years.
With this first factory first free zone In the production started in the customs warehouse area in Tophane, duty-free supply of parts was provided. In this small factory, production could reach 48 units per day. Afterwards, it was the Great Depression, fluctuations in global developments. After 5 years closed, completely demolished in 1944. Still, 15 thousand vehicles came out of this factory, moreover, the young Republic gained knowledge and experience in automobiles.
2. World War then it was used in the war as a grant to Turkey. jeep production vehicles began to arrive. So much so that Jeep, which is actually a brand, has been used as the name of off-road vehicles for a very long time. Along with the Foreign Capital Incentive Law, Turk Willys Overland Tuzla Jeep Assembly Factorystarted production in 1956. 25 percent of the factory capital was American.
As the biggest impact of this period, the domesticity rate of vehicles increased from 2% to 60%.
One semester used as a taxi and Büssing brand trucks were produced from time to time in the Jeep factory, which is one of the first choices of everyone when it comes to cars. Later, while Jeep left this facility, the factory was handed over to the military.
In 1958, these lands first small car He also met the German car Nobel 200. This vehicle was also produced in Turkey.
In 1959, Turkey showed that it was ready to produce automobiles.
First of all, in 1959 Ford Motor Company and Koç GroupHe founded Otosan. Otosanwas where the first steps were taken for automobile production. Once the factory all staff were Turkish. This team produced 4 Ford Consul cars and 8 Ford Thames trucks per day. In 1967, Ford Transit production started.
In 1962, Federal Turkish Trucks Inc., Oyak In its place, it will produce trucks, buses, minibuses, tractors, pick-up trucks, pick-ups, axle vehicles and spare parts in cooperation with International Harvester. Turkish Automotive Industry (TOE) went into operation. One year later, Bus Bodyworks Inc. started the assembly of Magirus buses, which will become a legend.
Revolution, the saddest memory of automobile travel, also emerged in this period.
President of the time in 1961 Cemal Gurselorders the Eskişehir State Railways Factory for the first automobile designed and produced entirely by Turkish engineers. He wants the prototype of the car in 135 days, even his name. Revolution puts.
Engineers and craftsmen worked diligently and succeeded in producing four Devrim cars. Cemal Gürsel’s words when his car ran out of gas, “We built a car with the western head, we forgot to put gas with the oriental head.” word made headlines, automobile Although public interest did not attract investment due to the perception created. However, Gürsel completed his tour with one of the other Devrim cars when the vehicle ran out of gas. This well-deserved car is still on display in Eskişehir and still works.
Anadol, which we know with the legend of eating cows, came a few years later.
Ford Consul production of cars was low. Moreover, the public could not buy them because they were expensive vehicles. Koç managers, who wanted to reduce costs and continue production with low numbers, found the solution in England. used by Reliant fiberglassIt was a much cheaper material. Due to the structure of this material, unfounded rumors emerged that the vehicle was made of compressed straw and that the vehicle was eaten by cows. In fact, Anadol was beyond its age, and fiberglass was a modern and ingenious material that we only see in cars like the Corvette.
The engines and transmissions of these vehicles with full steel chassis, which were 30-40% cheaper than their counterparts, were Ford production. It became very popular at that time and quickly progressed towards becoming Turkey’s own automobile. Production at Otosan Kadıköy factory From 1966 to 1984 continued. In total, 62,283 passenger Anadol and 36,892 pickup trucks were produced.
In 1968, Koç Group joined another giant, this time Italian. FIAT with TOFAŞ founded. Production, which started with Murat 124 in 1971, was continued with Murat 131 and Şahin, Kartal and Doğan, known as the “bird series”.
Renault also came to Turkey in these years
If in 1969 OYAKFrench Renault Started working with. They started production in 1971 with the front-wheel drive Renault 12 under the OYAK-RENAULT brand. It was followed in 1985 by Renault 9, the rival of Taunus, which was released the same year. if in 1987 first hatchback model The Renault 11 was produced. Otosan switched to diesel engine in Anadol in the same period. OYAK-RENAULT, on the other hand, introduced Renault 12 in 1989 with some changes. Taurus made the model. Again in the 90s, Renault’s top class model Renault 21 started production in our country.
Automobiles produced in Turkey diversified in the 90s.
in the 90s Opel models and Toyota Corolla started to be produced in Turkey. in 1993 TOEwhile in 1995 genoto automobile factories closed. In Turkey Ford, Renault, Toyota and Hyundai production continued. Inexpensive and trained labor force paved the way for many investments to be shifted to Turkey.
And finally TOGG comes
27 December 2019 With the Presidential decision published on in Bursa Gemlik It has been announced that it will establish a factory for the production of electric cars. Then he joined the project with the popular name “Beş babayiğit”. 996 million 774 thousand liras and TOGG, which is the automotive company with the highest paid-in capital in Turkey, started. It is expected that 1 million units of this vehicle will be produced by 2030. In total at the facility 4 thousand 300 people employment will be provided.
RELATED NEWS