- Despite a significant increase in the volume of vehicles produced (PC + LCV) in Germany in recent years, German manufacturers (Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler groups) locally produced proportionally less in 2013 compared to 2005. In 2013, German manufacturers thus produced 33% of their vehicles in Germany against 50% in 2005.

- Although production levels in Germany are important, their share has declined over recent years, partly because the capacities of the country are close to saturation. The Volkswagen Group produced 26% of its vehicles in Germany against 40% in 2005, the BMW Group 55% against 65% in 2005 and the Daimler Group 61% as against 75% in 2005.

- The proportion of vehicles manufactured in Germany will further decrease depending on the growth of the Chinese market and depending on the construction of plants outside Germany. The countries or regions where German manufacturers relocate to are primarily China (25% of world production of German manufacturers), the European Union other than Germany (20% of world production of German manufacturers) and North America (10 % of world production of German manufacturers). These three countries or regions represent 55% of the world production of German manufacturers while in 2005 this figure did not exceed 40% of their world production.

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- The Spanish brand Seat (a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group) will pull out of the Russian market on the 1st of January 2015, due to the weak sales of this market and local economic conditions becoming increasingly difficult: Russia has been giving incentives to locally produced vehicles in order to limit imports from Europe.

- Unfortunately , Seat does not produce vehicles in Russia, as the Volkswagen group present in Kaluga and in Nizhny Novgorod only manufacture the Volkswagen and Skoda makes. The Spanish brand often loses out since it is neither present in China, or the United States or even South America or South-East Asia.

- Seat sales in Russia, that have never exceeded 3 500 units per year, fell by 57% over the first ten months of 2014, while the Russian market as a whole only decreased by 12.7% over the same period. Only 1 324 Seat vehicles were registered against 3 094 units in the first ten months of 2013.

- The Volkswagen group's difficulty in positioning the Seat brand (especially against Skoda) and the Ruble depreciation has reduced imports. In recent years, mainstream manufacturers have been increasingly manufacturing in Russia, thinking it could become the first European market in the medium term, although in the short term, the market is experiencing a decline because of tensions between Russia and Western countries.

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- The Iranian market has experienced a strong growth in 2014, as oftoday the market will reach between 850 000 and 900 000 units over the year, forecasts from August had predicted from 750 000 to 800 000.

- These levels are still far from those reached in 2011 (1 650 000 units) or even those reached in 2012 (1 350 000), we are almost moving away from the poor levels of 2013 (715 000). In 2015 production levels expect to reach the one million threshold once more, unless the country experiences any major crisis.

- In this positive trend for the Iranian market, local production is also increasing, thanks to two local manufactures Khodro and SAIPA that produce their own vehicle but that also manufacture licensed vehicles from other carmakers. Moreover these two local carmakers manufactured 600 000 units over the first 9 months of the year, of which 240 000 were CKD PSA vehicles (for Khodro) and 24 000 CKD Renault vehicles (for SAIPA).

- The most impressive growth of 2014 is that of Chinese carmakers on this market (60 000 sales out of 670 000 total units sold over the first 9 months of the year).These Chinese vehicle account for 10% of the market while they only represented 8% of the market in 2013 and represented less than 2% in 2011. These brands (such as Lifan and Chery) benefited from the loss of power of European and Korean manufactures during the market drop and are now well established in this country.  

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