Stellantis group is targeting the fourth place in the worldwide carmaker ranking
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Stellantis group is targeting the fourth place in the worldwide carmaker ranking
- The automotive group resulting from the merger of the PSA and FCA groups will be named Stellantis. The creation of the group has not yet been indorsed, pending the validation by the European Commission investigating, in particular, the subject relating to a possible monopoly of the group in light utility vehicles (LUV). The official creation of the group is therefore postponed until early 2021.
- In order to estimate the size of the future group and based on production data in the first half of 2020, Stellantis would have reached 2,632,599 units in the first half of 2020 (including 1,188,949 units for PSA and 1,443,650 units for FCA ), compared to 3,806,239 units for the Toyota group, 3,525,203 units for the Volkswagen group and 3,027,458 units for the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi group.
- Regarding Hyundai-Kia, the Korean group is performing well thanks to the absence of lockdown in South Korea, and would be close to the Stellantis group, with 2,621,795 units. Behind, the GM group is far away, with 2,291,326 units.
- The rank of fourth worldwide carmaker would therefore not have been granted for the Stellantis group in 2020. Everything will depend on the commercial performance achieved by this group and by the Hyundai-Kia group during the second half of the year, but in the absence of lockdown for this period to come, we can assume that the advantage that Korean carmakers benefited in the first half will not be renewed in the second, and therefore the Stellantis group would undoubtedly have a better chance of finishing the year in fourth position than the Korean group. The year 2021 will therefore confirm or not the 2020 scenario.
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Mercedes X-Class and Renault Alaskan didn’t succeed on the European market
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Mercedes X-Class and Renault Alaskan didn’t succeed on the European market
- The Renault-Nissan group had multiplied rebadged versions of models within its brands range, such as the Dacia rebadged Renault, the Dacia rebadged Lada, the Samsung rebadged Renault, the Renault rebadged Nissan, etc ... These rebadged models have not always had a good commercial career.
- The rebadging of the Nissan Navara pickup is a good example: Daimler became a partner of the Renault-Nissan group a few years ago and several projects were announced and materialized at the time, such as the rebadging of the Renault Kangooto Mercedes Citan and the rebadging of the Nissan Navara to Mercedes X-Class. At the same time, the rebadging of this same Nissan Navara to Renault Alaskan was decided. The idea was that proposing the Navara pickup under multiple brands would increase sales of this model.
- In fact, this was not the case as the three pick-ups together reached a volume of 61,000 units in 2017, 59,000 units in 2018 and 47,000 units in 2019. The year 2020 records even lower sales volumes but mainly due to the coronavirus crisis. The Mercedes X Class has thus totalised 20,621 sales in three years and the Renault Alaskan 4,217 sales, while the Nissan Navara recorded 142,479 sales over the same period. The results show that the Mercedes and Renault pick-ups were unsuccessful, and that customers relied on the original model.
- The two carmakers have therefore decided to stop the production of these two pick-ups this summer in Barcelona, the Nissan Navara continuing to be produced until June 2021, when this plant will close. These three models were produced in this factory.
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VW ID5 and ID Buzz to be launched in 2021 and 2022
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VW ID5 and ID Buzz to be launched in 2021 and 2022
- Following the launch in 2020 of the Volkswagen ID3 sedan and coming ID4 SUV, both battery electric vehicles (BEV) from the C-segment market, the German carmaker has announced the launch of the ID5 in 2021 and the ID Buzz in 2022.
- The Volkswagen ID5 will be a D-segment SUV, therefore longer than the ID4 (length: 4.62 m). This future model targets the VW Passat and VW Tiguan customers. It will be produced in Zwickau, alongside ID3 and ID4; this plant having a production capacity of 200,000 electric cars per year. It should also be noted that the carmaker’s objective of producing 100,000 cars in Zwickau by 2020 will not be met, due to the coronavirus crisis and the postponement of the ID3 production for several months. We will be closer to the figure forecasted by Inovev (45,000 units) and even lower.
- While it was supposed to be produced in Emden, the production of the ID5 in Zwickau is explained by the fact that the transfer of the Passat from Emden to Turkey has not yet done, since the construction of the Turkish plant has not yet been decided.
- The second model announced is the ID Buzz which will be launched in 2022 and will attempt to gradually succeed the Kombi. As for the ID5, it will be based on the Volkswagen's MEB platform, which is intended for all the group's BEVs. The ID Buzz will likely be produced at the Hanover plant, alongside the VW Kombi and Transporter. The announced price of these two new models will be around 50,000 euros, which is 10,000 euros more than the ID3 and 5,000 euros more than the ID4. The ID1 (A-segment at 20,000 euros) and ID2 (B-segment B at 30,000 euros) will be launched between 2023 and 2025.
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The Seat Alhambra end of production signs the end of large European MPV
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The Seat Alhambra end of production signs the end of large European MPV
- The removal of the large Alhambra MPV (D segment) from the Seat product range may mark the beginning of the end for this type of model, less and less demanded by customers, at least in Europe as there is still a small demand for it in North America.
- In the USA for example, MPV represented 170,000 sales in the first seven months of 2020, or only 2.2% of the US market, against more than 10% twenty years ago. The growth of SUVs - as everywhere - having reduced the influence of MPVs to a tiny share of the market. On the US market, the only models still sold are the Honda Odyssey, Chrysler Pacifica, Dodge Caravan, Dodge Journey, Toyota Sienna and Kia Carnival, when twenty years ago the offer was much more wider, notably at Ford and GM.
- In Europe, the remaining large MPVs are the Volkswagen Sharan, Ford Galaxy and S-Max, Renault Espace and Mercedes V-Class, the latter being more of a Minivan than a true MPV. Renault has announced the non-replacement of Espace, and that Ford has indicated that the Galaxy and S-Max are nearing the end of their commercial career and that they will not be replaced. In the first seven months of 2020, these models totalled 44,372 units in Europe, or just 0.8% of the European market, a proportion three times lower than that of the US market.
- The large Peugeot, Citroën, Fiat, Lancia and Opel minivans have disappeared since a long time and the Seat Alhambra is the latest to be removed from the product range, thus announcing the imminent end of this type of vehicle in the D segment.
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Audi to launch Q4 E-Tron and E-Tron GT in 2021
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Audi to launch Q4 E-Tron and E-Tron GT in 2021
- Audi, now a 100% subsidiary of the Volkswagen group, was the brand on which future electric range was not yet cleared, especially because the group's program did not officially include Volkswagen ID3 and ID4 derivatives for this brand as it was announced for Seat and Skoda.
- We know a little more about the future electric range of the Audi brand, because after the BEV E-Tron (E-segment SUV available in standard version and in coupe version called "Sportback"), the carmaker has announced the launch in 2021 of a BEV C-segment (or D-segment) SUV called Q4 E-Tron, which will be also available in standard version and in a “Sportback” coupe version. The price of these vehicles will approach 60,000 euros.
- The second electric model announced by Audi in 2021 is called the E-Tron GT. This model belongs to the segment of an Audi A7 (segment E) and is based on the platform of the Porsche Taycan. The E-Tron GT would be available as a standard and Avant version, meaning in a station wagon version.
- Note that in the combustion engine range, Audi has announced the launch of the so-called “Sportback” coupe version of its Q5 (D-segment SUV).
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