Volkswagen chooses Turkey for its future European plant
- The Volkswagen Group is one of the few automakers to build a new assembly plant in Europe (with BMW in Hungary and Jaguar Land Rover in Slovakia), while the European market is now in decline and the short and medium-term prospects are not very good.
- Indeed, the leading German manufacturer quickly launched many SUVs under the Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda brands, and these models, far from cannibalizing the group's passenger car ranges, rather bit into the competition, which is why VW needs to build a new factory.
- Initially, the VW group hesitated between Romania and Bulgaria, then Serbia was mentioned, but Turkey was finally chosen.
- Turkey is already well represented in terms of automotive production, with the FCA, Renault, Ford, Toyota, Hyundai-Kia and Honda groups located there (the latter will leave Turkey in 2021). Volkswagen has been absent until now.
- The German manufacturer's site, which will be built near Izmir, will start around 2022/2023 with a production capacity of 350,000 vehicles per year, which will then be one of the largest factories in Turkey.
- The models initially manufactured on this site will be the Skoda Karoq and Seat Ateca, but other models will be added later, perhaps the VW T-Cross and Skoda Kamiq.
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