- The PSA group has announced that it will launch a one-ton payload pickup in 2020 , which will be produced in China, in partnership with the Chinese manufacturer Changan, with whom PSA is already associated for the local manufacture of DS brand models . It seems that the Toyota option was abandoned, as the Japanese manufacturer did not want their Hilux pickup (600 000 sales last year )to be re-badged by another OEM.
- This new medium-range Peugeot pickup, competing with the Ford Ranger, Nissan Navara, Toyota Hilux, Mitsubishi L200, Isuzu D-Max, Renault Alaskan, and VW Amarok, will be marketed in China and exported all over the world.
- PSA has just launched a pickup of the same type in Africa under the Peugeot brand , which is an adaptation of a Dongfeng pick-up (based itself on an old Nissan pickup truck).
- In this way, PSA’s two partners in China (Dongfeng and Changan) will work with the French manufacturer in the field of pickups, which certainly is still a not very common vehicle in China today , but which should - according to experts - expand its customer base over the next decade.
- Remember that the global market for mid-range pickups (one ton of payload) is just over 2 million units in 2016 and could increase by 50% in the next ten years.
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