Taliban leaders have lately acknowledged Afghanistan’s achievement in revealing what may be the country’s first sports car. The Taliban’s main spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted a video of the automobile performing doughnuts in the snow on Twitter on Sunday. According to The Telegraph, he claimed that the car was a tribute to the nation.
According to a report by the local Afghanistan news channel Tolo News, the Mada 9 car was constructed over the course of five years by the company Entop with a group of 30 engineers and designers from the Afghanistan Technical Vocational Institute.
“This car will be an ambassador and will drive across Afghanistan and convey the value of knowledge to the people”
The head of the school, Ghulam Haidar Shahamat, told the outlet that the engine is “powerful enough” to allow the driver to increase the speed. But, he noted, the engine is from a 2000 Toyota Corolla. “The main purpose is to install an electric engine in it,” he added.
Both the car’s characteristics and its top speed are unknown. Besides the video supplied by the Taliban spokesperson, there is no other footage of the car traveling at great speeds or performing tricky maneuvers. The Mada 9’s creator, Mohammad Riza Ahmadi, told Tolo News that he thinks the car will serve as a lighthouse for the troubled nation. “This car will be an ambassador and will drive across Afghanistan and convey the value of knowledge to the people,” he said.
One advertisement for the vehicle opens with a view of a desert floor covered in gunshot holes before it zooms in on a scruffy man. The man approaches a covered vehicle and finally steps over a bullet-filled road to reveal the Mada 9.
Afghanistan’s economy has collapsed since the Taliban’s takeover of the country in August 2021
Since the Taliban seized control of the nation in August 2021, Afghanistan’s economy has deteriorated. The U.S. Institute of Peace claims that within a year of the regime’s rule, the nation’s GDP had decreased by 20 to 30 percent. According to migration analysts cited by The New York Times in their study, more than a million Afghans left their nation between October 2021 and January 2022. “Six months after the takeover by the Taliban, Afghanistan is hanging by a thread,” he said. “For Afghans, daily life has become a frozen hell.”
The car has received offers, but Ahmadi, the designer, informed Tolo News that it is not for sale. He stated that the Mada 9 would be displayed all around Afghanistan and probably even abroad.
