BMC (Turkey)

BMC is one of the largest commercial vehicle manufacturers in Turkey. It was formed in 1964 in partnership with the British Motor Corporation (also known as "BMC") in İzmir.

Partnership with British Motor Corporation

"British Motor Corporation" Austin and Morris vehicles were manufactured at BMC (Turkey) under licence during its early years. 1966 was the first year BMC started adding truck, light truck, tractor and engine production in its product line.

Other partnerships

In later years BMC evolved and developed other models with partnerships with other firms, and the successors of the British Motor Corporation (which became British Leyland).

First, the Leyland 30 was released into the market as the first full-size van.

In 1983, under a partnership with Volvo Trucks, BMC produced Yavuz series trucks, then Fatih trucks in cooperation with Cummins diesel engines.

Design

BMC Profesyonel and BMC Megastar models are designed by Pininfarina

Takeover

In 1989 it was acquired fully by Cukurova Group. From that moment on, BMC started to produce their own product line which seems independent from other major manufacturers.Fact|date=October 2007

In 1996 BMC started the production of the Profesyonel series, which is produced in both Turkey and (since 2004) in Iran.

BMC also produces buses as part of the Belde series (since 1993) and Probus series.

Since 2000 BMC exports trucks and buses to countries around the world. When exports to the United Kingdom began in 2003, this marked the return to the UK of the BMC brand name, not seen on British roads since the 1960s (with the original British Motor Corporation).

MegaStar 2.8 Liter was built in İzmir (Turkey) by BMC and production started in 2004. 10 versions of the vehicle are available with 2 different engines, with power ratings of 83 and 95 kW and manual transmission.

External links

* [http://www.bmc.com.tr/eng_default.asp BMC Turkey]