Inovev forecasts production of 80,000-100,000 XT4s per year
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Inovev forecasts production of 80,000-100,000 XT4s per year
- Cadillac unveiled its new compact SUV (C-segment) at the 2018 New York Auto Show, the XT4. This model complements the brand's SUV lineup, such as the XT5 (D-segment) or the Escalade (E-segment).
- With this XT4, Cadillac ventures into the C segment for the first time, with a model that remains at the top of the segment with its 4.60m length and 1.88m width.
- These dimensions are explained by the fact that it is based on the E2XX platform, designed for D / E segment sedans.
- It is indeed this platform that we find under the bodies of Chevrolet Malibu, Buick Lacrosse, Buick Regal or Opel Insignia.
- This new Cadillac SUV competes not only with the recently renewed Toyota RAV4 (4.60m) and Honda CRV (4.60m), which both have very high sales in the United States, but also with the Lincoln MKC (4.55m) and the Lexus NX (4.63m) and which are even more direct competitors because of being Premium brands.
- Like the Lincoln MKC, its most direct competitor, the Cadillac XT4 is equipped with a 4-cylinder engine: a 2.0l developing 237hp. Inovev estimates the production of XT4 at 80,000-100,000 units a year.
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Inovev forecasts 300,000 new Subaru Forester global sales yearly
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Inovev forecasts 300,000 new Subaru Forester global sales yearly
- Subaru (18th world manufacturer in 2017) unveiled the new generation of the Forester SUV at the New York Auto show. This model has its highest sales in the United States (180,000 units sold in 2017 out of a total of 293,000 units produced). The Forester is also the manufacturer's best-selling model (27% of its total sales) and will be as previously exclusively manufactured in Japan (Yajima).
- This year’s launch is the fifth generation that succeeds the latest model released in 2012. Its design remains very close to that of the previous generation. The Forester therefore retains its traditional style that mixes SUV and elevated station wagon features . The real Subaru SUV is the Ascent that was introduced at the last Detroit Auto Show in January 2018.
- Developed on the new modular platform Subaru Global Platform (already used by the XV and Impreza, and soon by the future Legacy, Levorg and Outback), the new Forester is equipped for Europe with a diesel engine H4 2.0 LD developing 147hp and a 150 hp H4 2.0 L petrol engine; the USA will have only the H4 2.5 L gasoline engine developing 182hp. For reasons of emissions level, this engine will not be available in Europe.
- Inovev expects a global total of 300,000 sales per year from the new Forester.
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Great Wall will start production at its new Russian factory in 2019
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Great Wall will start production at its new Russian factory in 2019
- The Chinese manufacturer Great Wall will start production at its new Russian plant in 2019. The plant will be located in Tula, a town in southwestern Russia, 200 kilometers south of Moscow, with a production capacity of 75,000 vehicles a year, much larger than that of Lovech in Bulgaria, which closed in 2016, after four years of activity. Great Wall has also announced that in case of high demand, the capacity of the Tula plant could be doubled, and thus reach 150,000 vehicles per year. The Chinese manufacturer is working on this very optimistic scenario considering:
1. the growth of the Russian market for the years 2019-2024.
2. the increase in SUV market share in the Russian market during this period of growth.
3. the preference of the Russian clientele for the acquisition of inexpensive but reliable SUVs like the Great Wall Haval.
- Haval is the SUV division of the Great Wall Group, which now offers a range of models, the H1, H2, H5, H6, H7, H8, H9 which account for most of the million sales made in China last year. The manufacturer will be spoiled for choice for the model or models that will be manufactured in the Tula plant. In 2017, Great Wall sold 1,894 vehicles in Russia including 1,444 Haval H6, 234 Haval H2, 180 Haval H9 and 36 Haval H8. Haval H6 could be the first model made in Tula in 2019.
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Ford USA will import the Focus from China as of the 2019 model year
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Ford USA will import the Focus from China as of the 2019 model year
- The Ford group has confirmed that the future generation of the Focus Sedan to be marketed as of the 2019 model year, that is to say starting autumn 2018, would no longer be manufactured in the United States ( on the Wayne - Michigan site) but imported from China where it will now be manufactured (on the Chongqing site).
- The US version of the Focus Sedan is indeed identical to the Chinese Focus Sedan, that is to say, it has an apparent trunk (sedan body), unlike the European version that includes a hatchback. It is therefore easy to manufacture the American and Chinese versions of the Focus Sedan on the same assembly lines.
- The advantage of this transfer of production from the American Focus to China is to concentrate the manufacture of this model on a single site instead of two and to thus double the volume of production of Chongqing. Since in 2017 practically as many Ford Focus were produced in the United States as in China (around 170,000 units for each of the two assembly plants).
- Ford announced that the US plant that now produces the Focus for the North American market will stop this activity at the end of 2018 in order to concentrate during the following year on the manufacture of the future Ford Ranger (2019) and Bronco (2020) light trucks.
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Inovev forecasts production of 750,000 new Ford Focus per year
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Inovev forecasts production of 750,000 new Ford Focus per year
- Ford unveils the fourth generation of the Focus whose origins date back to 1998. This international model is one of Ford’s best-sellers (635,000 units in 2017, or nearly 10% of its global sales). It is sold in most countries of the world and produced in Germany (240,000 units in 2017), China (170,000 units), the United States (180,000 units), Argentina (30,000 units) and Russia (15,000 units).
- Yet the Ford Focus has lost a lot of influence since the appearance of the Ford Escort in China in 2014, which has taken many customers away from the Focus . Focus's sales in China decreased from 400,000 units in 2013 to 170,000 in 2017, while Escort's sales increased from 0 units in 2013 to 300,000 units in 2017. As for the North American market, less fond of sedans, it has resulted in a significant decline in sales of the Focus for several years (180,000 units in 2017).
- Moreover, the new generation Focus will no longer be manufactured in the United States for the North American market, but in China from where it will be imported, which will double the production of Focus in this country and recover its 2013 levels. Inovev expects production of 750,000 Focus per year worldwide, of which 250,000 in Europe, and 400,000 in China. The new Focus is equipped with petrol engines 3 cylinders 1.0 (85hp, 100hp, 125hp) and 4 cylinders 1.5 (150hp, 180hp), as well as diesel engines- only for Europe -4 cylinders 1.5 (95hp, 120hp) and 4 cylinders 2.0 (150hp).
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