PSA could sell the Ellesmere Port plant to Jaguar Land Rover
- In its analysis on the future of the PSA site in Ellesmere Port (United Kingdom ) published on November 13, 2017, Inovev concluded that PSA, which is significantly lowering the production capacity at this plant, should either produce another model from 2021 (end of life of the current Opel Astra) or close the factory, like Ryton (ex-Chrysler UK) that it closed in 2007 or Lindwood (ex-Chrysler UK) ) that it closed in 1981.
- The PSA group could have found another solution to save the Ellesmere Port plant, while no longer producing there. The project currently under negotiation would be to sell the Ellesmere Port plant to the Jaguar Land Rover group (a subsidiary of the Indian Tata group ) which currently lacks production capacity to meet demand, and will lack even more if the Jaguar and Land Rover product lines continue to grow as at present. Jaguar has recently decided to produce its E-Pace SUV at the tier 0.5 Magna’s plant in Austria, the future I-Pace will also be produced at Magna, and the future J-Pace and XJ will be launched in 2020 and 2021. Land Rover will also renew its range over the next few years and launch a brand new generation of the Defender in 2019.
- Jaguar Land Rover sold 620,000 cars worldwide in 2017 (up from 490,000 in 2015), while today it only has a capacity of 490,000 units in its own factories.
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