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发表于 2022年9月07日

• China
• Production
• SAIC

Chinese OEM SAIC produced 4.94 million vehicles over the first 8 months of 2017

- The Chinese manufacturer SAIC produces cars in partnership with GM and Volkswagen, and produces other cars under its own brands Roewe and MG.

- SAIC produced 4.94 million vehicles over the first 8 months of 2017, including 2.34 million for GM, 2.28 million for Volkswagen and 0.32 million for its own brands Roewe and MG.

- This volume puts it in third place worldwide if we include the SAIC production for Volkswagen and GM, and if we deduce these quantities on the volume of global production of Volkswagen and GM.

- This is the first time a Chinese automaker has come so close to world first place.

- In accounting for manufacturing made by Chinese manufacturers for foreign manufacturers, the ranking of the top six global manufacturers in the first 8 months of 2017 is as follows:

The Toyota Group leads with 6.10 million vehicles produced, ahead of Renault-Nissan (5.90 million), SAIC (4.94 million), Volkswagen (4.80 million), Hyundai-Kia (4.16 million) and GM (3.87 million).

- Volkswagen and GM suffer more in this ranking from their greater dependence on Chinese automakers than Toyota and Renault-Nissan, because they produce less in China.

 

   

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发表于 2022年9月07日

• Registrations
• Mexico

Mexican market up 10.8% over the first 9 months of 2017

- The Mexican market (PC + LCV) fell by 4.2% in September 2017, and this is the first time in several years that there has been a monthly decline in this market, even if it is minimal. However, since last spring, the Mexican market has been slowing down sharply (see chart).

- Is this market going towards a growth crisis? This is the question we can ask, because this market doubled in volume between 2009 and 2016, from 0.75 million to 1.45 million units over the period.

- Market growth over 2017 as a whole will depend on the last three months of the year. Admittedly, over the cumulative 9 months of  2017, the Mexican market is still up 10.8%, to 1.1 million units, but this growth may be annihilated if the months of October, November and December follow the trend of  July, August and September. Therefore, the volume of the Mexican market can not be accurately estimated, but it should be between 1.5 million and 1.55 million units, according to Inovev, which would set a new record.

- The particularity of the Mexican market is that the proportion of light trucks in sales has increased significantly in recent years, from 25% of registrations in 2016 to 35% in 2017.

- Three groups make up 58% of the market in 2017: Renault-Nissan (26%), GM (16%) and Volkswagen (16%).

   

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发表于 2022年9月07日

• Production
• GMHyundai-Kia
• Australia

The last Australian car factory has closed

- Holden (a GM subsidiary since 1931) ceased operations at its Australian plant in Elizabeth on October 20, 2017. It was the last car plant in Australia, Toyota  having closing its doors in September 2017 and Ford in October 2016.

- As expected and announced for several years by local manufacturers, Australian car production has ceased to exist and the registrations in the country (about one million vehicles per year) will be sourced from abroad, through imports. A quarter of a century later, Australian automobile production followed the same path as  its neighbor  New Zealand, which abandoned its auto industry in the early 1990s.

- Manufacturers located in Australia have been faced with a relatively small, highly competitive, low-export market that encourages imports due to low import tariffs.

- In addition, the cost of production in Australia was one of the highest in the developed world and could not in any case compete with that of the neighboring countries of Southeast Asia.

- Incidentally, the end of auto production in Australia puts an end to the career of two legendary models, the Ford Falcon and the Holden Commodore, former stars  on the local market.

   

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发表于 2022年9月07日

• Registrations
• Australia

Australian market down 0.9% in the first nine months of 2017

- The Australian market (PC + LCV) fell by 9% in September 2017, which is the worst monthly figure in several years and confirms a gradual slowdown in this market after a rather satisfactory year 2016 (+ 2%). On the 2017 9-month total, the Australian market fell 0.9% to 879,000 units. At the current rate, it could fall to 1.1 million units throughout the year, against 1.178 million in 2016 and 1.155 million in 2015.

- The Australian market is one of the few markets whose structure has changed dramatically, with supply coming in part from local factories now being replaced by  imports alone. This restructuring is the consequence of the successive closures of the local factories (Mitsubishi, Ford, Toyota, Holden) announced by the manufacturers since several years, and whose implementation ends this year.

- What is the current composition of the Australian market? Japanese manufacturers are widely represented, with 53% of the market, including 17% for Toyota, 10% for Mazda, 6% for Mitsubishi, 6% for Nissan, 4% for Subaru, 3% for Honda, 3% for Isuzu, 2 % for Suzuki. These manufacturers mainly export from Japan.

- European manufacturers make up 18% of the Australian market, Americans 16% and Koreans 13%.

- Passenger cars make up 78% of the Australian market and light commercial vehicles 22%.

   

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