The Peugeot ROA is an Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian made car (by Iran Khodro

Iran Khodro

Iran Khodro Company, also known as IKCO, is the leading Iranian automaker with headquarters in Tehran. The company's original name was Iran National. IKCO was founded in 1962 and it produced 688,000 passenger cars in 2009...

 Co). It is a developed version of the Peugeot RD 1600. The car is a combination of Paykan

Paykan

]The Paykan was an automobile produced by the Iranian company Iran Khodro Industrial Group. The car was very popular in Iran from the late 1960s to the late 1990s...

 and Peugeot 405

Peugeot 405

The Peugeot 405 is a large family car released by the French automaker Peugeot in July 1987 and which continues to be manufactured under licence outside France. It used TU/XU petrol and XUD diesel engines....

. Upon first glance it may easily be mistaken for a Peugeot 405. However the engine and chassis are completely different as it is developed on the Paykan's chassis, and despite having a body based on the Peugeot 405 it is a rear wheel drive car.

Engine

the new model (2010): A developed model with a 1,700 cc CNG engine.

the old model used a modified version of the Paykan's 1.6-litre engine is a modified version of the Paykan 1600.

The engine specifications are as follows:

• Engine type: Inline-four cylinder; four-stroke; 1,599 cc (1,696 cc)
• No. of bearings: 5
• Bore: 87.3 cm (1700)
• Stroke: 66.7 mm (1700)
• Cylinder material: Aluminum
• Maximum power: 61 kW at 5,000 rpm (1700)
• Maximum torque: 135 Nm at 3,000 rpm (1700)
• Compression ratio: 9.5:1 (1700)
• Ignition sequence: 1-3-4-2