Toyota and PSA will stop their cooperation in small cars
- The Toyota group announced that its partnership with the PSA group in small thermal engine cars (Toyota Aygo , Citroen C1, Peugeot 108) should stop in 2021.
- These small cars, of Toyota design, have been produced in the Toyota-PSA factory located in Kolin in the Czech Republic since 2005. Owned 50% by Toyota and 50% by PSA today, the Kolin plant will become 100% Toyota in 2021, the Japanese manufacturer having decided to buy the PSA share in this joint venture.
- The current generation of Toyota Aygo, Citroën C1 and Peugeot 108 date of 2014. These three models will be discontinued in 2021, unless Toyota decides to continue production of Aygo on this site. This scenario is not favored at the moment, since Toyota could very well produce the Corolla, which is produced today on the British site at Burnaston, in Kolin.
- In this hypothesis, the Burnaston site would inevitably close.
- On the other hand, Toyota announced the strengthening of its partnership with the PSA group in the field of light commercial vehicles. Thus, in the early 2020s, PSA could produce a rebadged Toyota version of the Citroën Berlingo, Peugeot Partner and Opel / Vauxhall Combo, on its Vigo (Spain) site. All these announcements could have considerable impact on the A segment sedan and the light commercial vehicle markets.
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