Inovev forecasts 15,000 units per year of the new Mercedes T-Class
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Inovev forecasts 15,000 units per year of the new Mercedes T-Class
- Mercedes has until now had three light utility vehicles (LUVs) of different segments and therefore different transport capacities: Citan small utility vehicle (N1-1), Vito medium utility vehicle (N1-2) and Sprinter large utility vehicle (N1 -3). The Citan was renewed last year on the basis of the new Renault Kangoo, from which it takes over the bodywork and the engines, including the 100% electric engine which had been refused on the previous generation. Each of the Mercedes utilities was offered in a passenger transport (PC) version: a CitanPC, a Vito PC (called V-Class) and a Sprinter PC.
- Today, appears the PC version of the recent Mercedes Citan which is renamed Class T. This model takes the bodywork of the Renault Kangoo in PC version of 4.50 m long. Only the grille and a few points of detail differ on the two models. This T-Class will also be available in a 100% electric version (called EQT) like the Mercedes Citan and Renault Kangoo. The Nissan Townstar, which shares the same bodywork as the Kangoo, Citan and T-Class, will also be entitled to its 100% electric version. The combustion engines are the 1.3 liter petrol unit (131 hp) and the 1.5 liter diesel unit (116 hp) both of Renault origin.
- A version of the T-Class with a long wheelbase (length: 4.90 m) will be available at the end of the year, as on the Citan and Kangoo. This version will be an alternative to the much bulkier V-Class and less utilitarian Class B.
- The Citan and T-Class are manufactured in the same factory as the Kangoo and Townstar, that of Maubeuge (France).
- Inovev expects 15,000 Class T per year, as much as the Citan.
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Inovev forecasts 300,000 units per year of the new Jeep Grand Cherokee
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Inovev forecasts 300,000 units per year of the new Jeep Grand Cherokee
- The Jeep brand, which belongs to the Stellantis group, has just presented the new generation of its favorite model, the Grand Cherokee, which remains the best-selling model of the brand along with the Wrangler. This is the fifth generation of the model (the previous one dated back to 2011) and the first launched under the Stellantis era. In the Jeep lineup, the Grand Cherokee (E-segment) sits above the Renegade (B-segment), Compass (C-segment) and Cherokee (D-segment), but is now supplanted by the Grand Wagoneer (F-segment) on Dodge Ram base. The Grand Cherokee competes with the Dodge Durango and Range Rover Sport.
- The new Grand Cherokee takes the Giorgio platform from the Alfa-Roméo Giulia and Stelvio and the engine from the Wrangler, namely a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo petrol plug-in hybrid producing 375 hp, which is now the most powerful engine performance of the Grand Cherokee. Indeed, the 3.6-liter V6 develops only 295 hp and the 5.7-liter V8 360 hp. This downsizing operation coupled with electrification has therefore proved to be profitable.
- The new Grand Cherokee is slightly longer than the previous one (4.91 m against 4.80 m) and a long wheelbase version is added to the range, this is the Grand Cherokee L which measures 5.18 m long, 27 centimeters longer.
- The new Grand Cherokee is produced at the Stellantis plant in Detroit (Michigan, USA). The old version had been manufactured at 245,000 units in 2021 and Inovev therefore expects a volume of 300,000 units per year from 2022, including the long-wheelbase version. The Grand Cherokee accounts for about a quarter of Jeep sales.
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83% of Toyotas produced in Onnaing at the start of 2022 are hybrid-powered
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83% of Toyotas produced in Onnaing at the start of 2022 are hybrid-powered
- The number of cars with hybrid engines (HEV-Full) continues to grow at the Toyota site in Onnaing (France). While the proportion of hybrid Yaris did not exceed 15% in 2012, this proportion increased to 50% in 2019, 63% in 2020, 77% in 2021 and 83% during the first quarter of 2022.
- The volume of Yaris with hybrid engines has thus crossed the bar of one million units produced in total on the French site.
- The manufacturer's objective is to produce 100% of hybrid versions of the Yaris and Yaris Cross in France from 2023. The proportion should thus increase from 83% at the start of 2022 to 85% in the middle of the year then 90% towards autumn and 95% towards the end of the year. Toyota was a pioneer in the field of hybrid motorization, since the first Toyota Prius was launched in 1997. From this model, a whole range of cars with hybrid motorization was built, on the basis of cars with thermal motorization.
- More than 20 million Toyota-branded hybrid-powered cars have been sold worldwide since 1997.
- Its luxury subsidiary Lexus has switched entirely to hybrid motorization. Today, all Lexus are hybrid or electric.
- The big change that the Toyota group is now making concerns the development of 100% electric cars that will gradually replace the internal combustion and hybrid vehicles of the Toyota brand, and the hybrid vehicles of the Lexus brand. Only the Daihatsu brand (entry-level subsidiary of the Toyota group, specializing in the production of K-Cars) continues to market thermal vehicles, but until when?
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The Big Three below 40% market share in the USA in 2021
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The Big Three below 40% market share in the USA in 2021
- For the first time in their history, the Big Three (GM, Ford, Chrysler) in 2021 fell below 40% market share in the US passenger car market (including SUVs and MPVs). Their share did not exceed 39% of this market last year.
- On the other hand, while the gap between these three manufacturers was very large in the 70s and 80s, a little less in the 90s and 2000s, this gap has narrowed considerably in the 2010s and the year 2021 ended with a tiny gap between GM, Ford and Chrysler. Thus, GM sold 2,203,000 vehicles on the US market in 2021, Ford 1,892,000 units and Chrysler 1,785,000 units (Jeep, Ram, Dodge, Chrysler), i.e. 5,880,000 vehicles.
- By comparison, GM sold 6,903,000 vehicles in 1978, Ford 3,802,000 units and Chrysler 1,599,000 units, or 82.5% of the total US market. The Japanese manufacturers, later helped by the Korean manufacturers, gradually bit into the sales of the Big Three which saw their influence greatly reduced, which led to the elimination of several of their brands such as Mercury, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, Plymouth whose sales had become too weak.
- In 2021, Japanese manufacturers accounted for 5,693,000 vehicle sales in the US market (38% of the market), a volume almost equivalent to that of the Big Three. In addition, Korean manufacturers represented 1,490,000 vehicles (10% of the US market). As for European manufacturers, they represented 1,335,000 vehicles (7.5% of the US market), not including Volvo, which is Chinese, and Jaguar Land Rover, which is Indian. Tesla only represented 2.5% of the US market in 2021.
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The European LUV market down sharply in the first quarter of 2022
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The European LUV market down sharply in the first quarter of 2022
- The European light utility vehicle (LUV) market has been declining since September 2021, but the decline intensified in the first quarter of 2022, with a fall of 16.8% in January, 17.0% in February and 28.2% in March.
- Over the first quarter of 2022 as a whole, the decline in the European LUV market reached 21.9%, which represents a much larger drop than that recorded at the same time by the European passenger car market: -2.4% in January , -5.5% in February, -18.9% in March and -10.7% over the cumulative 3 months.
- This situation is surprising insofar as the LUV market had better tolerated the Covid crisis in 2020 and 2021.
- The European LUV market was down 18.0% in 2020 and up 10.4% in 2021, while the European PC market was down 24.3% in 2020 and down again by 1.6 % in 2021.
- The question is whether the fall in the European LUV market is due to a shortage in the supply of semiconductors and/or components from Ukraine, or whether it is an underlying trend. which would be directly related to demand, and in this case whether the ongoing electrification of models has an impact on sales of light utility vehicles.
- In this context, 416,632 LUVs were sold in Europe in the first quarter of 2022, compared to 532,877 units in the first quarter of 2021, which represents a loss of 116,245 units over the period. The largest falls were recorded by Austria (-52.7%), Sweden (-40.6%), Spain (-35.7%), Belgium (-32.4%), Norway (-28.9%) and Hungary (-26.9%).
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