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詳細: 上で公開 2022年05月05日

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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続きを読む... Inovev forecasts 300,000 units per year of the new Jeep Grand Cherokee

詳細: 上で公開 2022年05月05日

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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続きを読む... The Big Three below 40% market share in the USA in 2021

詳細: 上で公開 2022年05月05日

Registrations

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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続きを読む... The European LUV market down sharply in the first quarter of 2022

詳細: 上で公開 2022年05月05日

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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続きを読む... 83% of Toyotas produced in Onnaing at the start of 2022 are hybrid-powered

詳細: 上で公開 2022年05月05日

Renault could sell its Algerian assembly plant

- The Renault assembly plant in Oran, which was inaugurated in 2014, does not at all meet the manufacturer's objectives since it no longer manages to come close to the targeted production level of 75,000 vehicles per year, on the basis of a response to local demand which had suffered at the time from the stoppage of car imports. In 2015, the Renault plant in Oran had manufactured 19,419 vehicles (Clio, Logan, Sandero) then 42,036 in 2016, 60,646 in 2017 and 72,615 in 2018. This steady increase in production rates then made it possible to anticipate a production of 75,000 units per year, the manufacturer's initial objective.

- The first difficulties appeared in 2019, with 60,012 units produced, down 20% compared to 2018, but this was nothing compared to what happened in 2020, where the production volume of the factory in Oran collapsed, falling to 754 units, causing the factory to shut down for many months. In 2021, the factory's activity gradually resumed, but the production volume for the year does not exceed 5,208 units, i.e. twelve times less than in 2019. As a result, the forecasts for the period 2022-2030 are very uncertain and it is not certain that Renault will keep this assembly plant.

- The difficulties would come from the assembly of cars with too low an integration rate, described by the Algerian government as disguised imports. The "screwdriver" factories of several manufacturers established in Algeria were successively closed. Renault, which has always favored its Tangier site in Morocco, may have misunderstood the attitude of the Algerian government regarding its "screwdriver" factory in Oran. This disappointment comes on top of that recorded this year in Russia, with the closure of Avtoframos and the question concerning Avtovaz in which Renault holds 68% of the shares.