1968

• Tofaş Türk Otomobil Fabrikası A.Ş. is incorporated as a joint venture of Koç Holding and Fiat of Italy.

1971

• Tofaş’s Bursa plant opens and begins production of the Murat 124.

1974

• Tofaş’s exports begin with shipments of the Murat 124 to Egypt.

1976

• The Murat 131 goes into production.

1977

• The Şahin goes into production.

1981

• Kartal and Doğan models go into production.

1990

• The Tempra goes into production.

1991

• Tofaş commences domestic production of engines for the Tempra series.

1993

• Tofaş’s one-millionth vehicle rolls off the Tempra assembly line.

1994

• With the production of the Fiat Uno, a vehicle for the B segment is introduced to the market for the first time in Turkey.

• Tofaş R&D is established.

1995

• With the Tempra model, Turkey’s first large-scale export to European markets takes place.

1998

• Participating in its first global automobile project with its contributions to the Fiat Palio, Tofaş begins managing a world-spanning supply chain.

1999

• Marea and Brava models go into production.

2000

• The Fiat Doblò goes into production and Tofaş creates a segment of its own in the Turkish automotive industry. For the first time, Tofaş personnel are directly involved in a project’s pre-production stages.

2001

• Tofaş becomes the Turkish representative for Fiat Auto’s Alfa Romeo brand.

2002

• The Palio series is given a makeover and the Albea goes into production.

• Tofaş Museum of Cars and Anatolian Carriages opens in Bursa.

2003

• Koç Fiat Kredi Finansman A.Ş., a captive financing company set up jointly by the Koç and Fiat groups, becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tofaş as a result of its acquisition of all of that company’s shares.

2005

• Work begins at Tofaş on the company’s “Minicargo Project”, whose aim is to develop a new light commercial vehicle for Fiat, Peugeot, and Citroen.

• With the incorporation of Fer Mas Oto Ticaret A.Ş., a wholly-owned Tofaş subsidiary, Tofaş becomes the official representative for Ferrari and Maserati in Turkey.

• The Fiat Linea goes into production.

2006

• Tofaş introduces a World Class Manufacturing (WCM) program at its Bursa plant in order to bring its operations into compliance with lean-manufacturing standards and practices.

• Tofaş’s Fiat Linea is voted an AutoBest award.

• The new Fiat Doblò receives the “Commercial Vehicle of the Year” award.

2007

• Tofaş begins producing Fiorino Minicargo models for Fiat.

2008

• The Bursa plant’s production capacity is upped to 400,000 vehicles a year.

2009

• Tofaş becomes the first among 175 FCA plants around the world to achieve World Class Manufacturing Silver status.

• The Fiat Doblò receives the “Commercial Vehicle of the Year” award.

2011

• The “Commercial Vehicle of the Year” award is bestowed on the Fiat Fiorino by the International Van of the Year jury.

• The Cargo version of the New Fiat Doblò is voted “Light Van of the Year” in the UK’s Van Fleet World series of awards and also receives the year’s environment award.

2012

• Tofaş becomes the representative for Jeep in Turkey after Fiat acquires a majority stake in Chrysler.

• The Opel Combo, a multi-brand model developed by Tofaş based on the New Fiat Doblò platform, goes on sale in many European and other markets.

2013

• Tofaş achieves World Class Manufacturing Gold status.

• Tofaş’s new R&D complex is opened.

2014

• Tofaş begins exporting the Fiat Doblò to North American markets as the “Ram ProMaster City”.

2015

• The Fiat Egea Sedan goes on sale in Turkey and around the world.

• At the Private Sector R&D Centers Summit organized by the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology, the Tofaş R&D Center is cited as the best R&D center in the Turkish automotive industry and also places third among the country’s best R&D centers in all categories.

2016

• The Fiat Egea Project’s Hatchback and Station Wagon models go into production.

• The Fiat Egea is voted “Best-Buy Car Of The Year In Europe” at AutoBest 2016.

• Record-breaking performance makes Tofaş the Turkish automotive industry’s leading manufacturer and exporter.

• Tofaş brings home first-place honors for the second time at this year’s Private Sector R&D Centers Summit conducted by the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. The company also ranks first among Turkish entrants in the European Commission Joint Research Center’s R&D Investment Score List.

2017

• Tofaş once again ranks first among Turkish entrants in the European Commission Joint Research Center’s R&D Investment Score List. This is the third year in a row that the company’s success has been so honored.

2018

• Connectivity technology Fiat Connect offered for sale. A digital platform that makes it easier for Fiat owners to interact with their vehicles, Fiat Connect was developed by Tofaş in collaboration with external startups.

2019

• Versions of the Egea family’s Hatchback and Station Wagon models fitted out with three different equipment options are put on sale.

2021

• Completely renewed and equipped with the best technologies available in its class as well as with a Firefly engine, the Egea model family and its newest member the Egea Cross go on sale in Turkey.

• The Tofaş R&D Center places second in the “R&D: Big R&D Centers” category in the Ministry of Industry and Technology’s R&D and Design Centers Awards series. Tofaş is the only automotive company to make it into the ranking.

• In Turkishtimes’ “R&D 250” survey of companies in Turkey ranked according to their R&D expenditures, Tofaş places among the top three firms.

• Stellantis is born as a result of a merger of FCA and PSA.

2022

• Fiat Egea’s latest-model “Cross Wagon” as well as automatic-transmission & hybrid-engine equipped versions of Egea’s Sedan, Hatchback, Cross, and Cross Wagon models go on sale.

• Tofaş’s production of Fiat Egea models reaches 1 million units. The millionth Egea rolling off the company’s assembly line is an hybrid-engine equipped Cross.

• Tofaş R&D Center’s newly-created Product-Development & Software branch commences operations in İzmir Institute of Technology’s Technopark İzmir Software Center.

• The “Koç Fiat Sigorta” initiative that began as an agile-team project in line both with anticipated developments in customers’ automotive-industry expectations and with Tofaş’s own mobility priorities is transformed into a Koç Fiat Kredi subsidiary.