The Renault factory in Algeria produced 68,196 cars in 2018
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The Renault factory in Algeria produced 68,196 cars in 2018
- Renault set up an assembly plant in Algeria, near Oran, at the end of 2014, following the Algerian government's decision to stop importing new cars, for which Renault was the leader. This plant is 49% owned by Renault, 34% by SNVI and 17% by the National Investment Fund (FNI). It just produced its 200,000th car on March 15, 2019, in four and a half years. It's a Clio IV. This model has been produced in this plant since 2018. It completes the manufacturer's offer, which until then consisted of the Renault Symbol (a redesigned Dacia Logan) and the Dacia Sandero (the Stepway version) for the local market.
- The plant's total production reached 68,196 units in 2018, compared with 60,646 units in 2017, 42,036 in 2016 and 19,419 in 2015. This steady increase in production rates corresponds to the increase in demand on the Algerian market, which is now supplied solely by locally assembled vehicles, as requested by the Algerian government.
- The production capacity of the Renault plant in Oran (which is now the largest in the country) has increased from 25,000 units per year in 2015 to 50,000 in 2016, then 75,000 in 2017 and should reach 100,000 units in 2020.
-The manufacturer's objective is to produce more than 150,000 vehicles per year by 2025, thanks to the opening of its CKD (Complete Knock Down) assembly plant, which should assemble new models from next year.
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続きを読む... The Renault factory in Algeria produced 68,196 cars in 2018
Inovev forecasts 30,000 new Cadillac CT5 per year
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Inovev forecasts 30,000 new Cadillac CT5 per year
- At the New York Motor Show, the GM group unveiled the new Cadillac CT5 (E segment), which replaces the CTS and fits in the manufacturer's range between the ATS (D segment), which will give birth to the CT4 next year, and the CT6 (F segment), whose days are running out. The Cadillac CTS was launched in 2001 and renewed in 2007 and 2013. Its success was relative and above all unsustainable since its worldwide sales fell from 85,000 units in 2008 to 40,000 in 2009, 25,000 in 2013 and 10,000 in 2018. This collapse in CTS sales is typical of mid-range sedans in the U.S. market, but at Cadillac, it has taken on the form of a rout. Cadillac, whose sedans were very popular in the 1960s and 1970s, is probably no longer credible in this category of vehicles. This is regrettable because the GM group's luxury brand is increasingly marginalizing itself against the Premium, German, Japanese, Swedish and British brands. The same situation can be observed at Lincoln, the Ford group's luxury brand.
- The Cadillac CT5 will try to boost the manufacturer's sales. Inovev forecasts a sales volume of 30,000 units per year, three times higher than the CTS volume in 2018, but much lower than the CTS volume in the years before 2013. The CT5 will be manufactured at GM's Lansing, Michigan facility. Based on the GM Alpha platform (Cadillac ATS), the CT5 will be equipped with a 2.0 turbo petrol, and a 3.0 twin-turbo petrol V6 engine.
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Ford to transfer Transit Connect production to Mexico
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Ford to transfer Transit Connect production to Mexico
- Ford Europe now has four van ranges, tiered in terms of size and price: Transit Courier (N1-1 segment), Transit Connect (N1-2), Transit Custom (N1-3) and Transit all in all (N1-4).
- Three of these models are manufactured in Turkey, at Ford's Kocaeli plant: Transit Courier, Transit Custom and Transit. Transit Connect is manufactured exclusively in Spain, in the Valencia plant, due to insufficient production capacity at the Kocaeli site (this site has been manufacturing more than 300,000 vehicles per year since 2015).
- Before the launch of the Transit Courier, the Transit Connect was manufactured in Kocaeli, but since the current generation launched at the end of 2013, it has been manufactured in Valencia. The next generation launched in 2021 will be produced entirely at one of Ford's Mexican sites in Cuantitlan or Hermosillo. These two sites currently produce Fiesta and Fusion, respectively.
- But Ford has already announced that these two models will soon disappear. The transfer of the Transit Connect from Valencia to Cuantitlan or Hermosillo will make it possible to safeguard the activity in one of these Mexican plants.
- As for the Valencia plant, it will stop manufacturing Transit Connect and also Mondeo, Galaxy and S-Max, but it should keep the SUV Kuga. Its future is therefore not threatened in the short term.
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Opel will return to Russia
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Opel will return to Russia
- The former European subsidiaries of the American group General-Motors, Opel and Vauxhall, were acquired by the French group PSA in the summer of 2017. In 2015, while still part of the GM group, Opel and Vauxhall withdrew from the Russian market following the American manufacturer's decision to stop sales of all GM group brands there.
- Opel sold nearly 700,000 cars in Russia between 2005 and 2015, which corresponds roughly to the volume of the brand's current fleet in that country, with the peak sales reached in 2008, with 102,000 sales.
- The PSA group, owner of the Opel brand since 2017, considers that these 700,000 cars will have to be replaced in the coming years, and that it is therefore appropriate to re-enter this market in order to try to capture most of these replacements and attract another segment of Russian customers who have never bought Opel models before.
- The new models on the Russian market at the end of 2019 will be the Grandland (C segment SUV ), Vivaro (N1-2 segment LCV ) and Zafira Life (new name of the PC version of Vivaro ), all of PSA origin.
- Other Opel PSA models will be added in the future, but the current GM models (Corsa, Astra, Insignia) will not be available on the Russian market. The Grandland sold in Russia will be manufactured in Germany (in the Eisenach plant), while the Vivaro and Zafira Life will be produced in Russia, in the PSA-Mitsubishi plant in Kaluga.
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Inovev forecasts between 250,000 and 300,000 new Tesla Model Y per year
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Inovev forecasts between 250,000 and 300,000 new Tesla Model Y per year
- Electric car manufacturer Tesla has unveiled its fourth model, the Model Y, which will be on the market from the end of 2020. It is a D-segment SUV based on the Model 3 sedan platform (200,000 units have already left the Fremont, California plant).
- In the Tesla range, the Model Y will be between the Model 3 and the Model S in terms of price. The manufacturer has indicated that it will cost about 10% more than a Model 3, i.e. between €56,000 and €69,000 in Europe. The commercialization of this model should begin in the USA and China in 2020, and in Europe in 2021.
- The manufacturer announces a range of 368km for the cheapest version and 540km for the most expensive version (estimated WLTP cycle). Model Y should take some Model 3 customers, given the continued success of SUVs around the world. It could also take customers from the Model X in its 7-seat configuration, as it will be much cheaper.
- The Model Y will compete with the Jaguar I-Pace and the future compact SUVs of the Volkswagen group, which will be launched in the years 2020-2022. Tesla made sure to introduce its Model Y model before the Volkswagen group's SUVs, when they should be on the market around the same time. Inovev expects production of 200,000 units per year of the new Model Y in the USA, to which must be added between 50,000 and 100,000 units produced in China.
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続きを読む... Inovev forecasts between 250,000 and 300,000 new Tesla Model Y per year