Volkswagen could assemble cars in Ford factories in the USA
- The Volkswagen group could assemble cars in Ford factories in the US, as part of an alliance that both groups are now defining. This is the announcement that was made by the manufacturer a few days ago.
- The Ford Group now has seven assembly plants located in the United States, including Wayne (Michigan), which is in heavy overcapacity. It is therefore the factory best suited to manufacturing Volkswagen Group models. The Ford group has assembled a total of 2.46 million vehicles in the US in 2017 and a little less in 2018.
- The Volkswagen Group has a single assembly plant located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. This plant, which manufactures the Passat sedans and Atlas SUV, is itself in overcapacity since 140,000 vehicles were assembled in 2017 and 130,000 in 2018, against capacities of 150,000 units per year.
- What would be the Volkswagen Group models likely to be produced in Ford factories in the USA ? Those models with high sales in this market and who are not manufactured in other factories in Mexico or Canada.
- The models that could benefit from this transfer are therefore as follows: Audi A4 (33,000 sales in the first 11 months of 2018), Audi Q7 (33,000 sales), Audi A5 (24,000 sales), Audi A3 (18,000 sales) , Audi Q3 (16,000 sales). We see that the Audi brand could be the first to benefit from sharing Ford factories in the US.
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