The global automotive market by country in 2018
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The global automotive market by country in 2018
- The global automotive market (PC + LCV) recorded a slight decline in 2018 (-0.3%), mainly due to the downturn in several markets, including China. China nevertheless represents 30% of world sales in 2018 (with volumes at -2.8% compared to 2017), and thus remains the world's leading automotive market ahead of Europe (19% of the world market, with volumes at +0.4%) and the United States (19% of the world market, with volumes at +0.5%). Behind these three major markets are Japan (6% of the world market, with volumes at +0.7%), India (5% of the world market, with volumes at +9.5%), Brazil (3% of the world market, with volumes at +14.6%), Canada (2% of the world market, with a market at -2.6%), South Korea (2% of the world market, with a market at +1.1%) and Russia (2% of the world market, with volumes at +12.8%). These nine countries account for 88% of the world market, the 190 other countries together make up only 12%.
- Looking at the evolution of the top four world markets since 1970, Japan, Europe and the United States have remained stable since the early 2000s, with the last two decades characterized by a complete lack of growth. Only the Chinese market has enabled global growth. This market has successively overtaken Japan, the United States and then Europe, but the coming years seem less favourable.
- Inovev expects stability in these four major markets over the next few years, due to the slowdown in global economic growth.
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Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Group 2018 world market review
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Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Group 2018 world market review
- The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi group has published its sales figures for 2018. The group's worldwide sales amounted to 10.76 million vehicles (passenger cars + light commercial vehicles), an increase of 1.4% compared to 2017. Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi remains the world's second largest automaker behind Volkswagen if we also take heavy goods vehicles into account, but the world's leading automaker if we take into account only passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
- The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi group's worldwide sales in 2018 can be broken down as follows: Nissan Group: 5,653,683 units (-2.8%), Renault Group: 3,884,295 units (+3.2%), Mitsubishi: 1,218,897 units (+18.3%).
- Breakdown by market:
1. Europe remains the group’s largest market, with 2.8 million vehicles, or 26% of its worldwide sales.
2. China is its second largest market, with 1.9 million vehicles, or 18% of its global sales.
3. The United States is its third largest market, with 1.6 million vehicles, or 15% of its worldwide sales.
4. Japan is its fourth largest market, with 728,000 vehicles, or 7% of its worldwide sales.
- These four markets account for 66% of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi group's worldwide sales in 2018.
- The group's best-selling models in 2018 were the Nissan Rogue/X-Trail (840,000 units), Nissan Sylphy (485,000 sales), Nissan Qashqai (475,000 units), Renault Clio (412,000 units) and Dacia Sandero (404,000 units).
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Inovev forecasts 400,000 new Renault Clio per year
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Inovev forecasts 400,000 new Renault Clio per year
- Renault unveiled the fifth generation of the Clio, which will be presented in avant-première at the Geneva Motor Show in March and be on sale from September 2019. This model is crucial for the Renault group (Renault, Dacia, Samsung, Lada, Alpine, Jinbei, Huasong) because the Clio, which has exceeded fifteen million sales since the launch of its first generation in 1990, remains the Renault group model the most sold in France and the second most sold model in Europe.
- Although it has a very similar silhouette to the previous generation, the Clio V adopts a new body that is a little shorter (4.05m) and a little lower (1.42m), designed on a new platform, called CMF-B.
- This new platform means that for the first time the new Clio will be equipped with a hybrid engine (which will be launched in 2020). However, unlike the future Peugeot 208, its main competitor, the new Clio will not be available in a 100% electric version. Hybrid engines are not the optimal solution to reduce fuel consumption and emissions, especially at a time when most European and Chinese manufacturers are preparing electric cars in all segments. However, hybrid engines are an alternative to diesel engines, which are less and less popular on the European market. In addition, Renault is already present in the B segment of 100% electric vehicles with the Zoé.
- The new Renault Clio should be produced mainly in Bursa (Turkey) and Novo Mesto (Slovenia). Inovev expects production volume of 400,000 Clio V units per year.
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Toyota Group 2018 world market review
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Toyota Group 2018 world market review
- The Toyota group (Toyota-Daihatsu-Lexus-Hino) has published its sales figures for 2018. Its worldwide sales amounted to 10.594 million units (PC+LCV), a 2% increase compared to 2017. The Toyota group remains in third place worldwide, with or without heavy goods vehicles. As in the previous year, it was behind Volkswagen and Renault-Nissan, but ahead of GM and Hyundai-Kia.
- The Toyota group's worldwide sales in 2018 can be broken down as follows: Toyota-Lexus: 8,792,000 units, Daihatsu: 848,000 units, Lexus: 750,000 units, Hino: 204,000 units.
- Breakdown by market:
1. The United States remains its largest market, with 2.44 million vehicles, or 23% of its worldwide sales.
2. Japan is its second largest market, with 2.28 million vehicles, or 22% of its worldwide sales.
3. China is its third largest market, with 1.30 million vehicles, or 12% of its global sales.
4. Europe is its fourth largest market, with 1.03 million vehicles, or 10% of its worldwide sales.
- These four markets make up 67% of the Toyota group's global sales in 2018.
- The Toyota group's best-selling models in 2018 were the Toyota Corolla (1,069,000 units), Toyota RAV4 (772,000 units) and Toyota Hilux (500,000 units).
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The Opel factory in Tichy has started manufacturing PSA's EB engine
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The Opel factory in Tichy has started manufacturing PSA's EB engine
- Since the 1960s, Opel has had several engine plants in Europe, including the Polish Tichy plant, which in recent years has been manufacturing the 1.7 diesel engines mounted on all its models.
- In view of the drop in diesel car sales in Europe and the takeover of Opel by the PSA Group in 2017, production at the Tichy plant had fallen in recent years. It could have been closed if PSA had not decided to reassign it to the manufacture of small-displacement PSA-origin petrol engines to be fitted on all future Opel models, mainly the Corsa, Combo, Mokka and Astra.
- The engines newly manufactured from 2019 in the Tichy plant are 1.2 Turbo PureTech 3 cylinders (code EB2) already installed on the Citroën C3 and Peugeot 208, and manufactured mainly at the Douvrin site in France, whose production capacity is close to saturation.
- Production capacity at Tichy will be 460,000 engines per year, corresponding to half of the Opel and Vauxhall vehicles manufactured by PSA each year, which means that one Opel/Vauxhall out of two will be equipped with this EB2 engine.
- 3.8 million units of this EB2 engine have already been produced worldwide, including 2.8 million in Europe, mainly in Douvrin. It could also be produced in the future in Kenitra (Morocco) and Szentgotthard (Hungary).
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