The Hyundai Solaris and Kia Rio have become the best-selling cars in Russia
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The Hyundai Solaris and Kia Rio have become the best-selling cars in Russia
- The Hyundai Solaris and Kia Rio manufactured in St. Petersburg in Russia became the best-selling cars on the Russian market in 2016. In the first nine months of the year, the Hyundai Solaris was sold at 66,602 units and the Kia Rio to 62,278 units, ahead of LadaGranta, LadaVesta, VW Polo and Renault Duster.
- The Solaris and Rio share platforms, engines and bodies. The Solaris is a 2010 Hyundai Accent slightly modified, while the Rio is the same car rebadged under the brand Kia, so very different from Rio models marketed in Europe and Korea.
- The plant in Saint-Petersburg, which produces them since 2011, has reached a peak of 237,000 vehicles manufactured in 2014 (126,000 Solaris and 111,000 Rio), and then the volume of production fell to 163,000 units in 2016 due to the fall of the Russian market in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
- Despite this decline, Solaris and Rio account together for 16% of the Russian market in 2016, compared to 17% in 2014 and 18% in 2015. It is mainly thanks to these two models that Hyundai and Kia became respectively the second and third leading brands in Russia, behind Lada (Autovaz) but ahead of Renault, Nissan and Toyota, with a market share of 10% and 10.5% respectively.
- The Hyundai-Kia group thus owns 20.5% of the Russian market in 2016.
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PSA will transfer the vehicle replacing the 2008 Peugeot from Mulhouse to Zaragoza
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PSA will transfer the vehicle replacing the 2008 Peugeot from Mulhouse to Zaragoza
- The new generation of the Peugeot 2008 (B SUV segment) is expected to be commercialized in 2019, as the current generation dates back to 2013 and its mid-life restyling to 2016.
- Following the agreements between GM and PSA, this future model will no longer be manufactured in France (on the PSA site in Mulhouse) but in Spain (on the GM site in Zaragoza). It is therefore a volume of nearly 200,000 cars per year that will lose the automobile industry located in France, following this transfer, which adds to the volume of nearly 150,000 cars per year that it will lose from 2017, following the transfer of the Citroën C3 to Slovakia (on the PSA site in Trnava). There will also be to add a volume of almost 100,000 cars per year due to the transfer to Slovakia of the last Peugeot 208 still manufactured in France.
- The PSA group therefore continues to relocate part of its production from France to the other European countries with lower wages.
How can PSA proceed if it wants to keep a volume of one million vehicles manufactured in France each year between 2017 and 2020?
Inovev sees two options:
How can PSA proceed if it wants to keep a volume of one million vehicles manufactured in France each year between 2017 and 2020?
Inovev sees two options:
- 1 / The increase in SUV production in France (3008, 5008, C4 Aircross, SUV Opel) = 100,000 units.
- 2 / The arrival of future DS models that could all be manufactured in France = 150 000 units.
- The balance would therefore be as follows: 450 000 vehicles lost in France and 250 000 vehicles gained in France, which could not enable to reach the one million of PSA vehicles announced to be produced in France.
- It is to note that the arrival of the Peugeot 2008 in Zaragoza will require the transfer of part of the Opel Corsa to Eisenach.
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VW will build an assembly plant in Algeria
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VW will build an assembly plant in Algeria
- The Algerian government has set quotas for imports of new vehicles in 2016 to 67,000 passenger cars and 85,000 light commercial vehicles (a total of 152,000 vehicles). With an expected production of 40,000 to 50,000 passenger cars in Oran this year, all for the local market, we can estimate the Algerian market to 110,000 passenger cars approximately, to which must be added 85,000 imported light commercial vehicles (no commercial vehicles Is currently manufactured in Algeria). This policy of restricting imports is intended to promote the industrial implantation of international manufacturers in a country that has purchased up to 437,000 vehicles in 2012.
- The Renault group has been the first manufacturer to establish a factory in Algeria in 2014. It has been the leader of sales in this country for many years (92,000 sales in 2014 and 90,000 in 2015). The Oran plant is currently manufacturing Renault Symbol (Logan) and Sandero.
- The Hyundai-Kia Group has just started production at the Tahkout plant in Tiaret. The group sold 65,000 cars in Algeria in 2014 and 47,000 in 2015.
- The Volkswagen Group has just announced the construction at Relizane of a plantdedicated to the production of Volkswagen (Polo) and Skoda (Octavia) cars. The VW Group sold 45,000 cars in 2014 and 30,000 in 2015. The plant is expected to start before the end of the first half of 2017 (capacity: 50,000 cars per year and then 100,000 by 2022).
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VW unveils an E-segment SUV for US market: Atlas
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VW unveils an E-segment SUV for US market: Atlas
- Volkswagen unveiled the Atlas, a serial version created from the CrossBlue concept presented at the 2013 Detroit Show.
This is a seven-seat E-SUV built on the MQB platform and that will be manufactured on the Chattanooga, Tenn. US site, to be sold only in North America. This model is bigger than the Touareg (Length: 5.03m versus 4.80m, width: 1.97m versus 1.89m, height: 1.76m versus 1.71m). It will be marketed in spring 2017 and replace the Phaeton sedan at the top of the Volkswagen range.
This is a seven-seat E-SUV built on the MQB platform and that will be manufactured on the Chattanooga, Tenn. US site, to be sold only in North America. This model is bigger than the Touareg (Length: 5.03m versus 4.80m, width: 1.97m versus 1.89m, height: 1.76m versus 1.71m). It will be marketed in spring 2017 and replace the Phaeton sedan at the top of the Volkswagen range.
- This new model will have to compete with comparable SUVs currently available in North America, such as the Ford Explorer, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Toyota Highlander, GMC Acadia and Chevrolet Traverse, which represent a market of close to 1.8 million units 2016.
- The new Volkswagen Atlas has two petrol engines: a 4-cylinder 2.0 TSI of 238hp and a 6 cylinder 3.6 of 280hp. Following the manipulated diesel engines case, Volkswagen did not consider it necessary to equip this model with a diesel engine or even a hybrid engine.
- It is difficult to forecast a volume of sales for a model that explores a brand new segment at Volkswagen,
but Inovev thinks that 50,000 sales of Atlas per year would already be a good result.
but Inovev thinks that 50,000 sales of Atlas per year would already be a good result.
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Hyundai has started its car production in Algeria
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Hyundai has started its car production in Algeria
- Following the quotas for imports of new vehicles imposed by the Algerian government, several car manufacturers decided to produce vehicles directly on the spot for the Algerian market.
- These quotas limit imports to 152 000 vehicles per year, of which 67 000 passenger cars and 85 000 light commercial vehicles, while the market represented up to 437 000 imports in 2012.
- Renault already produces between 40,000 and 50,000 vehicles per year in Oran (with a capacity of 100,000 per year at term) and Volkswagen will produce between 30,000 and 50,000 vehicles a year at Relizane from 2017 (with a capacity of 100 000 per year at term). The models concerned are the Renault Logan and Sandero, Volkswagen Polo and Skoda Octavia.
- Hyundai started production of SUV Santa Fe in Tiaret (plant belonging to the Algerian group Tahkout) on 29 October 2016. In 2017, four models will come out of the assembly lines of this plant of 50,000 vehicles per year (with a capacity of 100,000 per year at term): these are the Hyundai i10 (segment A saloon), Hyundai Accent Sedan segment B), Elantra (sedan segment C) and Santa Fe (SUV segment D).
- Hyundai sold 39,000 cars in Algeria in 2014 and 31,000 in 2015. The Korean could thus produce between 30,000 and 50,000 vehicles a year in Tiaret before reaching 100,000 vehicles a year by 2022.
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