GM is going to build a plant in China in order to manufacture Cadillacs

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GM is going to build a plant in China in order to manufacture Cadillacs
 

- Apart from its partnership with SAIC-Wuling for minibus, General Motors sells its products in China under three different brands: Buick, Chevrolet and Cadillac. Buick and Chevrolet are made locally by the Chinese automaker SAIC. Cadillacs are imported from North America (mainly USA).


- In 2012, the group sold 697,000 Buick, 30,000 Chevrolet and 689,000 Cadillac. To meet the Premium market development in China and in order to compete with other brands, General Motors also wants to produce in China its premium brand Cadillac, once again with its partner SAIC.


- To achieve this goal, General Motors has started the construction of a new factory in Shanghai, China, which will produce Cadillac models for the Chinese market. The site will have a production capacity of 160,000 units per year and will start operations in 2015.


- The American manufacturer has announced its ambition to occupy 10% of the Chinese market of the Premium range by 2020, four times more than at the present. General Motors has recently indicated that it intended to introduce a new Cadillac model in the Chinese market each year until 2016, to bring the brand sales from 30,000 units in 2012 to 100 000 in 2015.

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

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Opel is going to produce the Corsa in Belarus

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Opel is going to produce the Corsa in Belarus
 
- Opel will produce the Corsa in Belarus from (CKD) collections imported from Germany Eisenach and from Zaragoza in Spain. Let us recall that the Corsa celebrated its 30th anniversary last year and is now in its fourth generation.

- -The 7000 units which will be assembled annually in the Minsk plant from 2014 will be for the Belarusian market but firstly for the Russian market (about 95% of production).

- Indeed, part of Opels production in Russia is for the Opel Astra, the Meriva, Insignia and Zafira (48 500 models in total in 2012), but no Opel Corsa, probably due to the lack of capacity in Kaliningrad (factory owned by Avtotor producing several brands) and secondly, the best-selling model in Belarus does not exceed 1,250 units per year.

- In 2012, Opel sold in Russia 6764 Corsas, which corresponds to the industrialization plan provided for the Corsa in Belarus.

- The production of the Corsa will be done with a partnership with Unison JSC, a Belarusian manufacturer. Their collaboration agreement runs until 2017 with an option to add the following new models.

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

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Renault-Nissan unveils its first modular plateform

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Renault-Nissan unveils its first modular plateform
 
- Following the example of Volkswagen and PSA, Renault-Nissan has unveiled its modular platform. By 2020, over 75% of vehicles produced by Renault and Nissan will use one of three families of common architectures (CMF) developed by the Alliance.

- This strategy is similar to that used by Volkswagen named MQB, is called CMF (Common Module Family) in Renault-Nissan, and is to create common architectures for vehicles of different segments.

- The first CMF concern vehicles from segments C and D and will be opened by Nissan by the end of 2013 with its new Rogue, Qashqai and X-Trail. The first Renault vehicles (Espace, Scenic and Laguna) will be marketed late 2014 and eight other Renault models will emerge later with the first CMF.

- A total of 14 Renault and Nissan vehicles represent in the long term a volume of 1.6 million units per year worldwide. Between 2015 and 2016, two other families of CMF will be deployed to cover the A and B segments (including the Dacia) and E and F segments.

- Today, Renault and Nissan have twenty different platforms and the group's goal is to reduce by half this number, three of which represent more than 75% of the vehicles produced by the group.

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Data source: File #105 - Production in Europe detailed by model and plant

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The European market has declined by 6,6% over the first five months of 2013

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The European market has declined by 6,6% over the first five months of 2013
 

- On the cumulative first five months of the year, the European market (27 countries) declined by 6.6% (compared to the first five months of 2012), with a volume of 5,261,392 passenger cars registered.


- Even though the month of April could suggest gradual improvement, the European market recorded a much worse outcome than expected in May 2013 (-6.2% compared to 2012), to 1,081,255 units.


- Most European countries experienced a decline in May and over those five months. Only Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Great Britain and Estonia grew over the cumulative first five months of 2013.


- As regards to carmakers, only two groups progressed on the cumulative first five months of 2013 compared to the same period last year: 2.4% for Daimler (Mercedes) and 10.9% for Tata Motors (Jaguar / Land Rover). These two good scores highlight the success of the Mercedes Class A and the Land Rover.


- Within declining groups , some brands are still able to pull their game, as Dacia (+17.3% over five months), Honda (11.7%), Seat (9.0%), Mazda (+6.8%) and Kia (2.6%).

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Data source: File #55 - Registrations in the World by makes 

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VW will produce the Skoda Rapid in Russia in 2014

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VW will produce the Skoda Rapid in Russia in 2014
 
- The Volkswagen Group has since 2007 a plant in Russia (Kaluga). This plant produces the VW Polo, VW Tiguan, VW Touareg and the Skoda Octavia, along with the Skoda Fabia and Skoda Yetiall these models are sold locally. The Kaluga plant produced 180,000 vehicles in 2012.

- The Skoda Rapid will arrive on the Russian market in 2014. The lack of capacity of the Kaluga plant to manufacture it (capacity of 150,000 vehicles per year has already been greatly exceeded in 2012), a solution has been  found through its agreement with the Russian carmaker GAZ (which manufactures the Volga).

- Volkswagen can now use the GAZ factory located in Nizhny Novgorod thathasn't produced anything since 2010 and has a capacity of 150,000 vehicles per year.

- The group will then move the production of the Octavia from Kaluga to Nizhny Novgorod and the Skoda Rapid will be produced on the site of Kaluga. These transfers will be effective between autumn 2013 and spring 2014.

- In 2012, Volkswagen sold 180,863 vehicles in Russia including 99,206 Polo, Tiguan and Touareg from Kaluga and over 81,657 vehicles from abroad. Skoda last year sold 99,062 vehicles in Russia including 80,348 Fabia, Octavia Yeti from Kalugaand over 18,714 from abroad. 

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Data source: File #105 - Production in Europe detailed by model and plant

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