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MOTORINDIA
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May 2012
As a Koç Group company, Otokar exhibited
its wide range of buses ranging from 6 metres
to 12 metres at Busworld Turkey 2012. Otokar
launched Turkey’s first electric bus Doruk
(Vectio) Electra and the latest member of the
Sultan (Navigo) family, Sultan Mega, at the
exhibition.
Otokar General Manager Serdar Görgüç
said that during the last two years the company
had achieved a leadership in the Turkish bus
market. Emphasizing that it had also been the
leader in bus manufacturing in Turkey in the
first quarter of 2012, he said: “In 2011 we re-
alized a record growth and increased our rev-
enue by 72 per cent. Our group sales increased
38 per cent, reaching a total of 1,190 units in
2011. These successful results enabled us to
become the bus market leader of Turkey dur-
ing the last two years. And when we look at
the first quarter of 2012, we see that Otokar
is also the top bus manufacturing company
of Turkey. Carrying our success in Turkey to
international markets has always been our pri-
ority. We’re proud that thousands of Otokar
vehicles are serving successfully in more than
60 countries on five continents.”
Stating that the company had exhibited its
whole product range in city, service and inter-
urban transportation areas that carried Otokar