Jaguar decides to produce the E-Pace at Magna Steyr in Graz, Austria
- Due to insufficient production capacity at its British sites (Solihull, Halewood, Castle Bromwich), British manufacturer Jaguar decided to produce its new C-segment SUV, the E-Pace, at Magna-Steyr in Graz, Austria, where initially only the I-Pace was to be manufactured as of 2018.
- Indeed the manufacturer must manage the success of its SUV F-Pace (80 000 sales planned in 2017), while at the same time the arrival of recent Land Rover Velar and Discovery prohibits Jaguar from producing the E-Pace on the site manufacturing these models. In addition, a new generation of the Land Rover Evoque is in preparation and should be launched in 2019, which should create new constraints in terms of production capacity.
- The 60,000 Jaguar E-Paces manufactured annually for the European market, forecasted by Inovev in its article on 12 September 2017 about this model, should therefore be delivered from the Magna-Steyr plant in Graz as early as January 2018, rather than from the originally envisaged JLR Halewood plant.
- For E-Pace sales in China, Jaguar has announced that it will start production in 2018 at the Chery- JLR site in Changzhou, East China (Jiangsu Province). The agreement between Chery and JLR was signed in 2012. Today, this plant produces Land Rover Evoque and Discovery Sport, as well as Jaguar XF.
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