BAIC is going to acquire Zhenjiang Automobile
 
 
BAIC (Beijing Automotive Industry Corporation) plans to acquire the small Zhenjiang Automobile Chinese carmaker, not in order to increase its volumes but to establish a production site in the province of Jiangsu. For now, BAIC has not communicated on the kind of vehicles that will be manufactured at this site.

BAIC would have entered into negotiations with the local government of this province, Zhenjiang being a carmaker 100% owned by the state, because of its strategic importance (lorries and specialised vehicle production ).

In Chinese law, a carmaker willing to produce in a province other than where its headquarters are, must first acquire a carmaker of this province, or merge with one. This regulation reminds the one concerning foreign carmakers who must partner with Chinese manufacturers to be able to produce vehicles in China.

Zhenjian Automobile has government certificates to produce all types of vehicles, except sedans. So this constructor manufactures trucks and specialised vehicles under the name Shenye.

Jinggong Zhenjiang Automobile Manufacture Co. Ltd. has two factories which are able to  manufacture 10,000 trucks and 5,000 specialized vehicles. One is located in Zhenjiang and one in Inner Mongolia.

The carmaker also has two redevelopment platforms of specialised vehicles in Hangzhou and Wuhan.


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The 2011 and 2012 top 25 European plants
 
 

The 25 largest European plants in 2011 and 2012 appear in the table below. The largest one (which manufactured most of the vehicles in 2012) is the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, ahead of the Avtovaz Togliatti plant and the Nissan plant in Sunderland. Of the 25 plants, there are eight plants in Germany, three in France, three in Spain, one in England, two in Turkey, six in Eastern Europe (two in the Czech Republic, two in Slovakia, one in Poland, one in Romania) and one in Russia. If the limit the classification to the first 10 plants, five are located in Germany, two in Eastern Europe, one in Spain, one in England and one in Russia. Germany and Eastern Europe are indeed the most productive regions in Europe today.


Per carmaker, among the top 25 factories, eight belong to the Volkswagen group, four to the Renault-Nissan group, four to PSA, two to the Daimler group, two to the Hyundai-Kia group, two to the Fiat Group, two to the Ford group, and one belongs to the BMW Group. German groups are also featured in this category with eleven factories, in the top 25 while the French have eight groups, Koreans have two, Italian have two and American also have two. If we restrict the rankings to the first 10 plants, the Volkswagen Group has six, the Renault-Nissan group two and Daimler also has two.

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Ultra-compact vehicles at the "Yokohama Automotive Engineering Exhibition"
 
 
"Yokohama Automotive Engineering Exhibition", a leading exhibition for professionals in the global automobile industry (at Yokohama from 22 to 24 May 2013) was an opportunity for Japanese carmakers to introduce a new range of vehicles they are developing : the range of ultra-compact vehicle category which resembles European carts or quadricycle, even smaller than the midget category (European A segment).

Five vehicles were presented : Nissan (Twizy) Toyota Autobody (Com vehicles), Honda (micro commuter prototype), Gunma University, E-trike Japan Co (not really a car but more of a tricycle) and Idiada .

The development of this new offer is a direct consequence of the government's decision to create a new category for these types of vehicles. The objective is to meet the demands of a growing aging population in Japan, wishing to get around town without using public transport and that can not use motorcycles.

 

Some manufacturers (such as Toyota Auto Body) estimates that the market could eventually represent 70 000 units per year.

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Volvo abandon its plans for a premium limousine
 
 

Within the Shanghai Show Hakan Samuelsson, the President of Volvo announced that the Swedish brand (owned by Geely) no longer plans to develop  in the short term a premium limousine (competitor of the Audi A8, BMW 7 Series Mercedes S-Class), and this even for the Chinese market.


One had indeed last year talked of a successor of the former S90/V90, based on the Universe design (2011). During this exhibition, Volvo also introduced the V40 5-door hatchback, which will be marketed in China by the end of the year, this model has already been marketed in Europe.


M. Samuelsson has confirmed that he initially wanted to start production of Volvo cars in China in the factory of its parent company Geely located in Chengdu. The Swedish brand has also planned to raise to 250 the number of dealerships in China over the next two years (against 150 currently).


Volvo's goal is to sell 200,000 vehicles a year on the Chinese market as from 2015, while it sold 23,000 in the first five months of 2013. The best-selling model in China is the S80, which is currently the top range of the Swedish manufacturer.


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Guangzhou Honda started building its third plant in China
 
 
Guangzhou Automobile is a Chinese group that has its own minibus brand (Yangcheng and Denway) as well as branches in Joint Venture (JV) with other Japanese brands (Toyota and Honda) and Italian brands (Fiat). The vehicles produced by the JV are sometimes recognized by analysts as Guangzhou Automobile vehicles and sometimes as Toyota, Honda and Fiat vehicles. It is important not to count these vehicles twice.

Guangzhou Honda has started building its third plant in China. Located in Canton (now Guangzhou, China), it will be operational early 2015 with an initial capacity of 120,000 vehicles per year. The volumes will then double to be reach 240 000 units per year.

The new plant will mainly manufacture smaller Honda models. The two existing Guangzhou Honda plants can produce 240,000 vehicles each, i.e. 480 000 vehicles per year. In 2012, these two plants produced 448,748 vehicles, of which 248 884 in Wantong and 199 864 in Huangpu.

Let us recall that Dongfeng also produces Honda Accords. This second partnership produced 135,766 vehicles in Zengcheng in 2012. A total of 584,514 Honda were made in China in 2012, and 588,900 were sold locally.

Honda plans to increase its sales this year, thanks to the launch of new products such as the Jade model in September. The carmaker will also launch within a year, a new small off-road leisure vehicle intended to compete with the Ford Ecosport and the Buick Encore , of which we have seen the prototype at the Detroit automobile fair.

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