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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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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Geely creates the brand Lynk & Co
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Geely creates the brand Lynk & Co
- The Chinese manufacturer Geely (owner of the Swedish Volvo) has just finalised the creation of a new car brand called Lynk & Co. The Chinese manufacturer aims to sell 500,000 vehicles under this brand each year from 2020. Its models will be based on Volvo (CMA) platforms. It is to note that the Geely group sold 1.04 million vehicles in 2015, including 0.54 million under the Geely brand and 0.5 million under the Volvo brand.
- The first model Lynk & Co (a compact SUV called 01) was unveiled this month and will be marketed in China at the end of 2017, then in Europe and the US at the end of 2018. Other models will follow, including electric and hybrid vehicles .
These vehicles will all be assembled in China.
These vehicles will all be assembled in China.
- The brand wants to innovate by offering a vehicle delivery service and a service to exchange its vehicle for another model after two years. Its models will only be distributed via a website, not through a network of dealers (like the Tesla). And while carmakers usually first design a vehicle and then integrate connected services, Lynk & Co has done the opposite, the vehicle being designed around its connectivity services.
- Geely wants to make Lynk & Co the first Chinese brand to clearly differentiate itself from other car brands and to have a global base. The project seems very ambitious but hardly feasible.
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The new Mercedes X-Class will be produced at 30 000 units/year according to Inovev forecasts
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The new Mercedes X-Class will be produced at 30 000 units/year according to Inovev forecasts
- Mercedes has unveiled its X-Class pickup, which is in the medium-sized pickup segment, by the side of the Nissan Navara and Renault Alaskan from which it originated. This vehicle is a new fruit of the partnership between Daimler and Renault-Nissan.
- Mercedes did not have a medium-sized pick-up until today, while this market represents 2 million sales per year worldwide and the manufacturer expects a 40% growth of this market by 2025 (or 2.8 million sales at that date).
- The Mercedes X-Class pick-up (which could also be called GLT in some markets) will be marketed in 2017 in Europe and in 2018 in Australia, South Africa and South America. The Australian, South African and South American markets should be the main markets for the X-Class, which should remain a marginal model in Europe.
- Moreover, Mercedes is still considering the possibility of commercializing this model on the North American market,
as sales of medium-size pickups have decreased significantly in this region.
as sales of medium-size pickups have decreased significantly in this region.
- The X-Class will be assembled for the European market at the Nissan plant in Barcelona, Spain, alongside its cousins Nissan Navara and Renault Alaskan and for other international markets in the Renault plant in Cordoba, Argentina, where the Nissan Navara and Renault Alaskan are also manufactured.
- Inovev expects 20,000 to 30,000 X-Class sales a year. 
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The new BMW 5 Series will be produced at 400 000 units/year according to Inovev forecasts
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The new BMW 5 Series will be produced at 400 000 units/year according to Inovev forecasts
- Shortly after the closing of the 2016 Paris Motorshow, BMW unveiled the new generation of the 5 Series (E-segment), a model in competition with the Mercedes E-Class, Audi A6 and Jaguar XF. The model presentation came also shortly after the renewal of the Mercedes E-Class and Jaguar XF.
- Since the previous generation was launched at the end of 2009, the Series 5 models have a seven-year life.
- The new generation, whose production will start at the beginning of 2017 on the BMW site in Dingolfing (Germany), will keep the classic styling that made the success of the models of the brand. Its production is expected to start in China (on the Brilliance site in Shenyang) and in Russia (at the Avtotor site in Kaliningrad) a little later.
- Thanks to the CLAR platform already used on the 7 Series (2015) and which will be shared by the future 3 Series (2019), the new 5 Series loses - according to the carmaker - a hundred kilos compared to the old one, in spite of being longer by 3cm (new length: 4.94m).
- The new 5 Series is equipped with two diesel engines (2.0l 190hp on the 520d and 3.0l 268hp on the 530d) and two petrol engines (2.0l 252hp on the 530i and 3.0l 340hp on the 540i). A rechargeable hybrid version will be available in 2017.
- While the former generation of the 5 Series was produced at 350,000 units in 2016 (200,000 in Europe and 150,000 in China), the next generation is expected to reach 400,000 units per year.
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