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Details: Published: 06 September 2022

Toyota is going to produce a new Corolla in Turkey

- Toyota is going to produce its 11th generation Corolla in its Turkish Adapazari plant as from this month. The new Corolla sedan version of the Auris will be primarily destined for European markets in the South and East. The world's largest manufacturer is also considering adding another vehicle in the same factory, probably a small SUV competitor of the Nissan Juke. The Toyota plant in Adapazari has produced since its establishment in 1994, more than one million vehicles, mainly composed of several generations of Corolla, between 1994 and 2006. Since then, the factory only produced Auris and Verso models (people carrier version of the Auris).

- But demand for sedan vehicles are significant markets in Southern and Eastern Europe (including Russia), it has been agreed against all odds to launch a new Corolla in Turkey in 2013. Unexpected consequence of this launch, the Auris production has been focused in the UK Burnaston plant since January.

- The manufacturer plans to produce 180,000 units per year on this site, including Corolla Verso.

Data source: File #101 - Worldwide production detailed by models

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Plant implementation areas of the world's leading carmakers

- The six main global carmakers have very different operating regions. When taking into account the production figures of 2012:

- The Toyota group produces its vehicles at 73% in Asia (mainly Japan and China) and 20% in North America (mainly in the USA and Canada). Europe remains poorly exploited by Toyota.

- The Volkswagen Group manufactures primarily in Europe (51% of world production), but thanks to China, the share produced in Asia is forever increasing (30% in 2012). If the proportion in America is of 18% , it is largely due to Brazil and Mexico.

- General Motors now manufactures as many vehicles in Asia (mainly China and Korea)as in America (mainly USA, Brazil and Mexico ). Europe accounts for only 14% of the total of 2012.

- The Renault-Nissan group is the carmaker that has the most balanced output on three continents: Europe 40%, Asia 36% and 23% in America. The share of European production, however, is tending to decrease.

- The Hyundai-Kia group on the contrary the most concentrated carmaker over a region, in this case Asia (mainly Korea, China and India). But it is also the last arrived carmaker on the global market.

- The Ford group occurs mostly in America (59%). It's Asian share is the lowest of six leading global companies.

Data source: File #101 - Worldwide production detailed by models

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Production

European plants and their capacity rate of use of the five months of 2013

- Inovev has conducted for the first five months of 2013, two tables of 20 European plants with the highest rates of use and 20 European plants with the lowest utilisation rates.

- The plants with the highest rate of use are characterized by the renewal of a successful model (Wolfsburg with the VW Golf VII, Ingolstadt with the Audi A3 or Munich with the BMW 3 Series), the introduction of a new model (like the Rastatt and Kecskemét plants with the new Class A along side the Class B), extending the model range of a carmaker (The Halewood plant of the Tata Group and the range Rover Evoque or the Opel Adam at Eisenach), the transfer of a vehicle inside the same group (the PSA Poissy plant and the Peugeot 208 and Citroen C3).

- Plants with the lowest utilization rates are characterized by either a planned closure (PSA with the Aulnay plant and Ford with Genk), or waiting for a new model (future Citroën Villaverde, future Fiat and B-segment Jeep in Melfi ...), a planed shutdown or transfer of a vehicle (the Fiat-Chrysler Cassino plant) or the production of a vehicle on declining segments (Renault-Nissan with Scénic produced in Douai), or model failure and oversizing the production plant (Dresden with the VW Phaeton).

Data source: File #12 - European production versus plant capacities

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Jiangling and Ford have inaugurated a new plant in Nanchang

- The Ford Group has two joint ventures in China, one in passenger cars with Changan, the other in commercial vehicles with Jiangling.

- Jiangling Motors Co. (JMC) is a Chinese company that has its own brand (JMC) as well as subsidiaries from Joint Ventures (JV) with the Ford group (for the Ford brand) and with the Changan group (for the Landwind brand). The vehicles produced by the JV are sometimes recognized by analysts as JMC vehicles and sometimes as Changan or Ford vehicles. It is important not to count these vehicles twice.

- JMC and Ford inaugurated on June the 20th a new assembly plant in Nanchang. With a production capacity of 300,000 units per year, the plant will assemble commercial vehicles under the Ford and Jiangling brands. It will raise the production capacity of Jiangling from 250 000 to 550 000 vehicles per year.

- Both partners have announced that they plan to build an engine plant, initially with a production capacity of 200,000 units per year in order to support the development of the production of commercial vehicles.

- Ford also said that two new vehicles sold under the Ford brand will be produced with Jiangling : a new commercial vehicle from the Transit family and an SUV.

Data source: File #101 - Worldwide production detailed by models

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Production

In Europe between 2007 and 2012 the tables have turned

- Which are the plants that have declined the most in terms of production volume and those who were able to significantly increase their production volume between 2007 and 2012?

- Plants that declined the most in volume are all located in the West or South of Europe:

-The PSA Aulnay (-93%) due to the transfer of the C3 production to the Poissy factory;

-Renault's Douai plant (-56%) that produces minivans and suffered from the drop in sales of this segment;

-The Renault Flins plant (-52%) because of the production transfer of the Clio to Turkey (Bursa);

-The Ford plant in Valencia (-51%) because of the production transfer of the Fiesta and Focus to Germany;

-The PSA Vigo plant (-46%) that produces the C4 Picasso that has reached the end of its cycle and is soon to be renewed;

-The Fiat Melfi (-65%) and Mirafiori (-63%) that suffered from falling sales of the Fiat factory;

-The GM Bochum plant (-39%) because of the transfer of the Opel Astra to Rüsselsheim in addition to sales decline of the Opel Zafira.

- The situation is different in Eastern and Northern Europe. Thus, the British Sunderland plant has seen its production volume increased by 44% between 2007 and 2012, thanks to the success of the Qashqai and Juke SUVs. Further east, Bratislava plant (50%), Zilina (101%) of Nosovice (which did not exist in 2007), Bursa (41%), Trnava (21% )and Leipzig (38%) plants took advantage of the arrival of new models on on their assembly lines.