Indonesian local automotive industry still needs a lot of fighting to be able to create a national car (mobnas). Ghazal 1, Saudi Arabia mobnas prime property could be used as concrete examples related to this issue.
This car is the creation of the King Saud University students, Riyadh, in cooperation with several experts from leading companies Motorola, Mercedes, and Magna. Although still a concept, a Ghazal is a pioneer and has been ascertained to be manufactured en masse. Certainty was obtained after the product is presented in front of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz earlier this week.
Ghazal 1 has a shape like a sport utility vehicle (SUV), with dimensions of length 4.8 meters and 1.9 meters wide. Engine problem has not been divulged, but four-wheel-drive car (4WD).
"This is a turning point in an era where the Arab kingdom of the car manufacturers. Much like other industrialized countries in the world," said Abdullah Al Othman, Chairman of the University of King as reported autoevolution (16/06/2010).
The emergence of a prime Gaza had been going on at the Geneva Auto Show this year. To realize this, the Arab governments faced some major challenges include the readiness of infrastructure and trained human resources. Even so, the government remains optimistic and target will produce 20,000 units per year starting in 2013 to come.
"A lot of preparations being conducted, one with prospective investors for realization of Gaza first," said Darwish, one professor of Industrial Engineering at the University.
Predictably, the Arab investment funds will require U.S. $ 400-500 million to build a factory and begin production. Seeing the number of "oil king" in this country, that number seems not be a problem. Well, then how mobnas Indonesia