Volkswagen launches new brand in China
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Volkswagen launches new brand in China
- Volkswagen is launching a new brand in China, which will be dedicated to 100% electric vehicles. This brand is called SOL. It will help to ensure that Volkswagen sells nearly 400,000 electric cars in 2020 and 650,000 in 2025, as required by the quotas set by the Chinese government for each manufacturer based in China, depending on their sales volume.
- The SOL brand, which is the result of a partnership between Volkswagen and China's JAC (Anhui Jianghuai Automobile), unveiled its first model, at the Beijing Motor Show: the E20X which is a compact SUV that could anticipate the styling of the future VW T-Cross presented in Europe at the end of the year.
- This model provides 116hp power and 300 kilometers of autonomy. Between now and 2023 it will be followed by the phased launch of ten new 100% electric models, two new models per year on average for five years. All these models should be produced in China.
- The Volkswagen Group is the manufacturer that will have to make the most effort on the Chinese market in order to sell 10% of its sales in electric cars, 12% in 2020, 20% in 2025 and 30% in 2030, and thus be in line with the requirements of the Chinese government, because today it sells more than 4 million vehicles a year.
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The most produced car in Great Britain in 2017
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The most produced car in Great Britain in 2017
- We have seen in our previous analyzes that the VW Golf was the most produced car in Germany (and Europe) and that the Toyota Yaris was the most produced car in France. What is the most produced car in Britain?
- This is the Nissan Qashqai (C-segment SUV), as for many years. The Sunderland plant (North East of England) is the only site that produces this model in the European Union. There is a factory in Russia (Saint Petersburg) that manufactures the Qashqai, but for local demand only. The Nissan Qashqai is also manufactured in China and will soon be in the United States, under the name of Rogue Sport (the Rogue is the US version of the Nissan X-Trail).
- 301,000 Nissan Qashqai were manufactured in Europe in 2017 (against 310,000 in 2016), of which 232,000 were sold in the European Union (against 217,000 in 2016), where it is in sixth position of sales by model, making it the best-selling SUV in Europe, ahead of the Volkswagen Tiguan.
- The drop in Qashqai's production volume in 2017 (-9,000 units) is due to the transfer of part of the production to the Russian plant in Saint Petersburg. Previously, Qashqai sold in Russia were exported from the Sunderland factory.
- The next generation of Qashqai should be launched in 2020. It should be produced on the same production sites as today, alongside the future X-Trail, which will be manufactured for the first time in Europe.
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The most produced car in Spain in 2017
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The most produced car in Spain in 2017
- We have seen in our previous analyzes that the VW Golf was the most produced car in Germany (and Europe) and that the Toyota Yaris was the most produced car in France. Which is the most produced car in Spain?
- This is the VW Polo (B segment sedan), as for many years. The plant in Pamplona (northern Spain) is the only site that manufactures this model in the European Union. There is a factory in Russia (Kaluga) that manufactures a tri-body version of the Polo but for local demand only. Polo is also made in China, India, Brazil and even Algeria, for local demand.
- 283,000 VW Polo were produced in Europe in 2017 (vs. 323,000 in 2016). The drop in the production volume of Polo in 2017.
- (-40,000 units) is due to the change of generation that took place during the year. Volumes should return to the 300,000 unit level in 2018.
- In Europe 264,000 Polos were sold (compared to 297,000 in 2016). Even with a drop in sales of 33,000 units last year, the Polo remains the third best-selling car on this continent, behind the VW Golf and Renault Clio, but ahead of the Ford Fiesta, Peugeot 208 and Opel Corsa. However, it is possible that the new VW T-Roc and T-Cross (B-segment SUVs) could take customers away from the Polo in the near future.
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The most produced car in Italy in 2017
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The most produced car in Italy in 2017
- We have seen in our previous analyzes that the VW Golf was the most produced car in Germany (and Europe) and that the Toyota Yaris was the most produced car in France. What is the most produced car in Italy?
- This is the Fiat Panda (A segment sedan), as for many years. The Pomigliano plant in the Naples region (southern Italy) is the only site producing this model in the European Union.
- 197,000 Fiat Panda were produced in Europe in 2017 (against 200,000 in 2016), of which 146,000 were sold in Italy (74% of its production) where it remains the best-selling car. The Panda, which is also the best-selling segment A model in Europe, is expected to be replaced in 2019.
- The future Panda could be produced on the Tichy site (Poland) for cost reasons. This transfer is made possible by the fact that the Ford Ka is no longer produced there and, the Lancia brand being doomed, LanciaYpsilon should not be produced there after 2019. In addition, the production launch of the future Fiat Punto in Tichy has been abandoned, since the Fiat-Chrysler Group has decided not to continue this model, which will end its career in Italy.
- The transfer of the Fiat Panda to Tichy could nevertheless cause the closure of the Pomigliano site. A new model could however be produced there as of 2019 (the future Dodge Journey?).
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PSA Kaluga plant has started production of Jumpy and Expert
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PSA Kaluga plant has started production of Jumpy and Expert
- As announced in the December 25, 2017 Auto-Analysis , the production of Citroën Jumpy and Peugeot Expert commercial vehicles started in March 2018 at the Russian PSA site in Kaluga. These vehicles are intended exclusively for the Russian market, and possibly for the markets of the Socialist Republics of the former USSR. The planned production volumes will nevertheless be clearly insufficient to really revive the production of the site which has been idling for several years.
- Installed capacities of 125,000 units per year are very underutilized since the production volume of the site did not even reach 16,000 units in 2017 (Citroën C4 and Peugeot 408), against 17,415 in 2016. The site has never reached 50,000 units per year, even including the models of Mitsubishi, which owns half of the site and whose production volume (Outlander, Pajero) currently accounts for almost 90% of the site's activity. Kaluga’s utilization rate does not even reach 15%.
- The start of production of the Citroën Jumpy and Peugeot Expert in Kaluga took place just when PSA announced the transfer of several thousands of these models each year from Valenciennes in France to Luton in England. We are witnessing a scattering of the production of Citroën Jumpy and Peugeot Expert without being certain that the demand will be high enough for three different production sites to be needed. The Valenciennes site has manufactured less than 115,000 units of these models in 2017, while the capacity of this plant is 180,000 per year, and a number of units have been exported to Great Britain ( 13,000 units) and to Russia (1,000 units)., The PSA Group expects an increase in the European market for light commercial vehicles in the coming years to compensate these production transfers.
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