Between 2014 and 2018 Spain should be the great European winner
- Thanks to the arrival of models mostly from abroad, the Spanish automobile production should return to its record before crisis levels starting from 2017-2018 and thus outrun France and Britain.
- The Spanish automobile production has experienced a period of sharp decline between 2008 and 2013 due to the economic crisis in Spain which has significantly reduced the volume of the local market, but also due to a European market decline, coupled with the competition of Eastern European countries.
- The first sign of this recovery was undoubtedly the arrival in 2011 of the Audi Q3 on the assembly plant of Seat Martorell . The Ford C-Max also arrived in 2010 at the Valencia plant but this merely compensated for the departure of the Focus to the Saarlouis plant in Germany, the same way the Kuga compensated the production loss in 2012 due to the departure of the Fiesta to Cologne in Germany.
- The arrival at Vigo of the Citroen C-Elysee and Peugeot 301 in 2012 showed that Spain can position itself as a cheap manufacture. In 2013, Spain welcomed the production of the Renault Captur and Ford Transit Connect. In 2014, Spain will host the production of the Citroën C4 Cactus, Ford Mondeo, Opel Mokka, Nissan Almera, Seat SUV these models will not be replacing any end-of-cycle models in Spain. Finally, in 2015 and 2016, Spain will host the production of a future C segment SUV , the Ford Galaxy, S-Max and Citroen C3 Picasso that won't be replacing any vehicles currently produced in Spain but will be added to existing models. Thus, the Spanish car production can only develop strongly.
