Volkswagen will build its future factory in Romania or Bulgaria
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Volkswagen will build its future factory in Romania or Bulgaria
- We have seen that the Volkswagen Group, which must at the same time respond to the success of its recent SUVs and find space to manufacture its future electric cars planned for 2020-2030, has decided to build a new factory in Europe.
- The German manufacturer has announced that it would choose a country located in Eastern Europe, for reasons of cost. But VW still hesitates between two countries -Romania and Bulgaria- for this new factory. Romania, which already has two production sites (Dacia in Pitesti and Ford in Craiova), would be a more logical choice because Bulgaria is clearly further away from the European Union. Bulgaria (which no longer has production facilities since Great Wall’s withdrawal) is closer to Turkey, Greece and Serbia, while Romania is closer to Hungary and Slovakia where VW is present.
- With the transfer in 2022 of the VW Passat from Emden to Kvasiny, the Skoda Karoq and Seat Ateca (currently assembled in the Kvasiny factory) will be transferred to the new factory that Volkswagen will build in Romania or Bulgaria.
- In 2018, these two SUVs will total 165,000 units (against 100,000 in 2017) and their production volume should continue to increase in 2019 and 2020. The plant that Volkswagen will build in Romania or Bulgaria should therefore be able to manufacture at least 200 000 vehicles each year, 100,000 less than the Czech factory in Kvasiny.
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Toyota and Mazda have started the construction of their joint plant in the US
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Toyota and Mazda have started the construction of their joint plant in the US
- Toyota and Mazda have started construction of their plant in Huntsville, Alabama in December and plan to start producing vehicles there in early 2021. The plant will employ 4,000 people and will produce 300,000 vehicles a year, 150,000 for Toyota (Corolla) and 150,000 for Mazda (CX5), destined for NAFTA zone markets.
- Currently, Toyota has four assembly plants located in the United States, a fifth(Fremont), formerly operated with GM, having been sold to Tesla. Toyota has two plants in Canada and one in Mexico. In 2017, Toyota sold 2,4 million vehicles in the US and produced 2 million in the NAFTA zone.
- On the other hand, Mazda has only one assembly plant in Mexico but none in the United States or Canada. In 2017, Mazda sold 300,000 vehicles in the US and produced 150,000 in the NAFTA zone.
- It is interesting to note that the GM group will close five plants in North America, and that today it has thirteen assembly plants (down from twenty-two in 2005), which means that there will be only eight left in 2021, which is the same as Toyota, which will then have eight as well.
- The Ford Group currently has ten assembly plants in North America, while the Fiat-Chrysler Group has eight assembly plants and Honda has six assembly plants in this region.
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Inovev forecasts 100,000 new Range Evoques per year
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Inovev forecasts 100,000 new Range Evoques per year
- The new generation of the Land Rover Range Evoque should have been presented at the Mondial de l'Automobile, last October, but the manufacturer preferred to unveil this model a month and a half later.
- The new model (code L551) is built on a new platform that will allow the Evoque to be electrified. A plug-in hybrid version (based on a 3-cylinder petrol engine) is scheduled for next year.
- The new Range Evoque retains the look of the old (whose origins date back to 2011) and it will be manufactured in the same factory in Halewood (Great Britain).
- It will be marketed only in the four-door version, since the coupe and cabriolet versions will not be renewed.
- It will be powered by the 4-cylinder petrol 2.0 l 200hp, 250hp, 300hp and 4-cylinder diesel 2.0 l 150hp, 180hp and 240hp. In 2019, a 1.5-cylinder, 3-cylinder, plug-in hybrid petrol engine will complete the offering.
- Inovev expects an annual production volume of 100,000.
- The Range Evoque is in the Land Rover range below Range Velar, Range Sport and Range. Its positioning is different than Discovery and Discovery Sport, which aim for another clientele and image. The new Defender, the entry-level model of the brand should appear in late 2019 or early 2020.
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Toyota and PSA will stop their cooperation in small cars
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Toyota and PSA will stop their cooperation in small cars
- The Toyota group announced that its partnership with the PSA group in small thermal engine cars (Toyota Aygo , Citroen C1, Peugeot 108) should stop in 2021.
- These small cars, of Toyota design, have been produced in the Toyota-PSA factory located in Kolin in the Czech Republic since 2005. Owned 50% by Toyota and 50% by PSA today, the Kolin plant will become 100% Toyota in 2021, the Japanese manufacturer having decided to buy the PSA share in this joint venture.
- The current generation of Toyota Aygo, Citroën C1 and Peugeot 108 date of 2014. These three models will be discontinued in 2021, unless Toyota decides to continue production of Aygo on this site. This scenario is not favored at the moment, since Toyota could very well produce the Corolla, which is produced today on the British site at Burnaston, in Kolin.
- In this hypothesis, the Burnaston site would inevitably close.
- On the other hand, Toyota announced the strengthening of its partnership with the PSA group in the field of light commercial vehicles. Thus, in the early 2020s, PSA could produce a rebadged Toyota version of the Citroën Berlingo, Peugeot Partner and Opel / Vauxhall Combo, on its Vigo (Spain) site. All these announcements could have considerable impact on the A segment sedan and the light commercial vehicle markets.
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Inovev forecasts 35,000 new Porsche 911s per year
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Inovev forecasts 35,000 new Porsche 911s per year
- The new Porsche 911 was expected at the Paris Motor Show last October, but Porsche decided to unveil the eighth-generation 911 coupe (code 992) at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November. Admittedly, the US market is the biggest market for the 911, since it sold 9,000 units on this market in 2017, against 7,500 in Germany, 2,200 in Great Britain, 1,200 in Canada and 1200 in China out of a total of 33,761 units produced.
- The new model retains the appearance of the previous 911 with a slight modernization of the design and the technical characteristics.
- The Porsche 911 remains the premium coupe of the brand (pending a hypothetical replacement of the old Porsche 928), which sells three times more than the Cayman mid-range coupe despite the latter being at half the price.
- The new Porsche 911 is still equipped with the six-cylinder turbo 3.0-liter rear-displacement petrol engine, developing 444hp this time.
- The new model will be, as previously, manufactured on the Porsche site in Stuttgart (Germany), alongside the Boxster and Cayman and soon the Taycan. The Panamera, Cayenne and Macan are made in Leipzig.
- Inovev expects annual production of 35,000 of the new Porsche 911.
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