Toyota Product Plan for the North American Market
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Toyota Product Plan for the North American Market
- Excluding the restyling of existing models, the Toyota Group (Toyota, Lexus) has announced that it will launch 14 new models in the North American market between 2018 and 2021, including five SUVs and five sedans.
- This Product Plan does not include the Camry sedan renewed in 2017, which remains one of the best-selling sedans in this market, as well as one of the most produced (400,000 units per year).
- The Product Plan includes 8 new Toyota models and 6 new Lexus models. It covers a volume of 1.6 million vehicles produced per year in the NAFTA zone (United States, Canada, Mexico) or 2.2 million including the Camry renewed in 2017 and the Tacoma pickup renewed in 2015 (which will not be renewed until 2022). This volume of 2.2 million is to be put in perspective with the 2.1 million Toyota vehicles produced in 2016 in this zone and the 2.06 million produced in 2017.
- In terms of sales, Toyota sold 2.77 million vehicles in 2016 on the NAFTA zone and 2.66 million in 2017, which means that the automaker imports from Japan some 600,000 vehicles a year, but imported 800,000 vehicles. in 2009, 1 million in 2008 and even 1.3 million in 2007, which means that Toyota has sharply reduced the gap between sales and production in the NAFTA zone in recent years. The wish of President Donald Trump to see Japanese builders produce more in the United States is therefore already partly fulfilled.
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Nissan Product Plan for the North American Market
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Nissan Product Plan for the North American Market
- Excluding the restyling of existing models, the Nissan group (Nissan, Infiniti) has announced that it will launch 13 new models in the North American market between 2018 and 2021, including five SUVs and five sedans.
- This Product Plan does not include the renewed Rogue SUV in 2014 or the Rogue Sport (Qashqai) launched in 2017 that will not be renewed until 2022, or the recently renewed Kicks, Micra, Maxima, Titan, or Leaf.
- The Product Plan includes 8 new Nissan models and 5 new Infiniti models. It covers a volume of 1.35 million vehicles produced per year in the NAFTA zone (United States, Canada, Mexico) or 1.75 million including the Rogue and Rogue Sport.
- Note that Nissan does not manufacture vehicles in Canada.
- This volume of 1.75 million is to be put into perspective with the 1.85 million Nissan vehicles produced in 2016 , and the 1.8 million produced in 2017. The difference comes from the non-replacement of the Nissan Tsuru manufactured in Mexico.
- In terms of sales, Nissan sold 2.1 million vehicles in 2016 on the NAFTA zone and 2.05 million in 2017, which means that the automaker does not import vehicles from Japan, but instead exports vehicles to outside the NAFTA zone (between 100,000 and 250,000 vehicles per year). As a result, Nissan will have a hard time producing more in the US , as wished by US President Donald Trump.
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Mitsubishi replaces the Space Star with a new model based on the Clio
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Mitsubishi replaces the Space Star with a new model based on the Clio
- The Japanese brand Mitsubishi Motors, bought by the Renault-Nissan group last year, has suffered a significant erosion of its sales over the past twenty years, in the Japanese market, as well as in the US and European market.
- Thus, in the European market, Mitsubishi's sales dropped by almost 50% between 2000 and 2017, from 190,000 units in 2000 to 100,000 in 2017. The manufacturer's range policy and quality problems have contributed to this decline in sales. The acquisition of the brand by Renault-Nissan is expected to radically change the range policy and put an end to quality problems. The first element of this change is the announced replacement of the Space Star sedan (launched in 2013) with a model based on the Renault Clio and Nissan Micra platform.
- The Renault-Nissan group will proceed in the same way as for the Micra, namely to replace a bottom of the B segment (made in Asia) by a more up market and more expensive B-segment sedan (manufactured in Europe). The new Space Star (which could take the Colt name) would be manufactured in Europe and no longer in Thailand. It could be manufactured in France (Flins), Slovenia (Novo Mesto), Turkey (Bursa) or Spain (Valladolid). Renault-Nissan wants to double sales of Mitsubishi in Europe thanks to this new model. In 2017, the Space Star sold 30,000 units on this continent (against 26,000 in 2016 and 28,000 in 2015), a small increase due to its recent mid-life restyling.
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Alfa-Romeo will launch a second SUV in 2018 and a third in 2019
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Alfa-Romeo will launch a second SUV in 2018 and a third in 2019
- The Alfa-Romeo brand (a subsidiary of the Fiat-Chrysler Group), which now has only one SUV in its range (the D-segment Stelvio), has announced that it will launch two new SUVs, one C segment (based on the Jeep Compass platform) in 2018 and the other E-segment (based on the Maserati Ghibli platform) in 2019. The Alfa-Romeo C-segment SUV will therefore be a variant of the Jeep Compass, while that in E segment will be a variant of the Maserati Levante.
- All manufacturers are aggressively developing SUVs in several segments, with this type of vehicle accounting for almost one in three European sales. Jaguar, Maserati, Bentley, and Alfa-Romeo were the last to enter this market.
- Alfa-Roméo started very late in this market, since the Stelvio began its career less than a year ago. 11,582 units were sold in the first nine months of 2017 (of which 10,501 in Europe, 633 in the United States and 285 in China). The Alfa-Romeo Stelvio is 4.68m long, 1.86m wide and 1.65m high. It is therefore likely that the future segment C SUV will measure about 4.50m and the segment E about 4.90m.
- These two new models will probably be produced on Italian soil, which should allow local production to increase volume significantly. Indeed, according to Inovev, the three SUVs of Alfa-Romeo should sell a total of 100,000 annual units, out of a total of one million vehicles made in Italy.
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PSA group will open a factory in Algeria
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PSA group will open a factory in Algeria
- After Renault, Hyundai and Volkswagen, PSA group will open a factory in Algeria, via a joint venture created with three Algerian partners. This is the third operation of the French manufacturer in the region, after the announced construction of a plant in Morocco (Kenitra) to manufacture the Peugeot 301 and Citroën C-Elysée (90,000 units per year from 2019 ), and of an assembly workshop in Tunisia for the assembly of the Dongfeng Peugeot pick-up truck (1,200 units per year).
- Peugeot sold 7,000 cars in Algeria in 2016 and it will sell as many in 2017 (all imported from Europe), against 36,000 in 2015 and 42,000 in 2014, before import quotas were introduced.
- The Algerian government imposed new import quotas in 2016 to encourage car manufacturers to set up in the country. PSA is the fourth manufacturer to respond positively to this request.
- The first vehicles will be produced in 2018 in a new factory located near Oran, in western Algeria. PSA Group (Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Opel, Vauxhall) objective is to gradually grow production in this plant to 75,000 vehicles in 2023, five years after the start of the site, which is 49% owned by the French manufacturer. We do not yet know which vehicles will be manufactured on this site, but it could be Peugeot 208 and 2008. All production will be sold in North Africa and will not be exported to Europe.
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