The future Turkish VW plant will produce Passat and Superb
- Initially, the Volkswagen group had indicated that its new plant to be built in Turkey would be dedicated to the mid-range Skoda Karoq and Seat Ateca (C segment) SUVs, and that the space made available on the Czech site in Kvasiny would be utilised by the next generation of the Volkswagen Passat which would be transferred in 2022 from the German site in Emden, where several electric vehicles of the Volkswagen group brands would be produced from 2022 onwards.
- The German manufacturer has completely revised its action plan. It will not be the Skoda Karoq and Seat Ateca that will be produced in Turkey from 2022 onwards, but the future top-of-the-range Volkswagen Passat and Skoda Superb sedans, the Passat being transferred from Emden and the Superb from Kvasiny.
- This is the first time that Turkey will produce D/E segment sedans, as this low labor cost country is used to producing small A and B segment sedans, or sometimes C segment models, in addition to commercial vehicles.
- The newly built plant will be located in Manisa, 40 km from Izmir, in southwest Turkey. This plant, which will start operating in 2022, will have a production capacity of 300,000 vehicles per year, 200,000 Passat and 100,000 Superb.
- The Czech site in Kvasiny will continue to produce Skoda Karoq, Skoda Kodiaq and Seat Ateca, which totaled more than 320,000 units in 2019, compared to 255,000 in 2018 and 155,000 in 2017, doubling the volume in two years.
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