| At first glance, the Simurgh resembles the Batmobile. Black, low-slung with flared wheel arches, the supercar looks built for speed.
Named after a mythical Persian bird with the head of a dog, claws of a lion and big enough to carry off an elephant or whale, the Simurgh took a team of 30 people five years to build, Entop chief executive officer Mohammad Reza Ahmadi said. The project was delayed by the pandemic and the collapse of the Afghan economy after the Taliban takeover, said Ahmadi, who also acts as chief engineer and designer.
The car, which runs on a four-cylinder engine, was unveiled late last year. It went viral in January when a Taliban spokesman shared a video of an earlier version of the vehicle, then known as the Mada9. A crowd of the former insurgents was seen admiring the car in the video. But Ahmadi wants the public to see the Simurgh as representing a different side of Afghanistan. He and his team managed to get the car to Doha, its first international showing, after crowd-funding $US130,000 from more than 45,000 people.
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