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詳細: 上で公開 2021年03月11日

Land Rover Discovery 5 completely missed its mark

- The Land Rover Discovery 5 launched in 2016 is the successor of a Discovery family that had some success from the first generation of the model launched in 1989 until 2016. In theory, the Discovery 5 was marketed to feed the gap between Discovery Sport in the D segment and the Range Rover / Range Rover Sport in the E segment. In reality, it hasn't really found its place in the carmaker's line-up.

- Compared to older generations, the Discovery 5 has extended by almost 15 cm, posting an impressive length for an SUV, of 4.97 meters. Its imposing volume and mass (2.2 tonnes to 2.3 tonnes), combined with diesel engines but without hybridization versions, did not work in its favour. Not to mention its price (60,000 to 70,000 euros according to versions), a net increase compared to previous models.

- The customers did not follow and in the end, Land Rover only sold 137 000 Discovery 5 between 2016 and 2020 (34,000 per year), against 312,000 Discovery 4 between 2009 and 2017 (39,000 per year) and 266 000 Discovery 3 between 2004 and 2009 (53,000 per year).

- Moreover, the Discovery 5 is already largely outdated, even compared to other models of the brand, such as the Defender or the Range Velar. His career is therefore likely to be limited to five years, compared to eight years for the Discovery 4.

- The new Defender seems to have taken over the Discovery 5, being positioned in the same segment, and nearly 40,000 copies have already been sold in a year, while 2020 has been a very bad year overall.

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続きを読む... Land Rover Discovery 5 completely missed its mark

詳細: 上で公開 2021年03月11日

Inovev forecasts 300,000 units per year of the new Nissan Navara / Frontier

- The Nissan Frontier (Navara in Europe) is the Japanese carmaker's mid-range pickup, produced in North America (USA, Mexico), South America (Brazil, Argentina), Asia (Thailand), in Africa (South Africa). In Europe (Spain), the production of this model will be stopped during the 2021 year.

- The Nissan Frontier / Navara is therefore a global vehicle, marketed on all continents for several decades. In 2020, nearly 180,000 units were sold worldwide, against 320,000 in 2019 and 345,000 in 2018. This decline in sales last year is partly explained by the consequences of the coronavirus crisis, but also due to an increased competition, particularly from the United States. The age of the model remains relative, as the latest generation of the Frontier / Navara (the fifth) dated from 2016, while the previous ones had lived between eight and eleven years each.

- Nissan, however, decided to replace this model sooner than expected, and it will be the first to be not produced in Europe. The new model looks a lot like an American pickup, with square lines and a massive grille. The new Frontier / Navara is expected to boost sales of a sharply declining model in 2020.

- Nissan proposes just one engine to its mid-range pickup, a 3.8-liter V6 developing 310 hp, which sits at the top of the segment when it comes to horsepower. The new Nissan Pathfinder SUV presented at the same time is based on the same platform as the new Frontier / Navara. Inovev expects 300,000 sales per year of the new Nissan pickup.

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続きを読む... Inovev forecasts 300,000 units per year of the new Nissan Navara / Frontier

詳細: 上で公開 2021年03月11日

Renault and Nissan's European N1-1 segment LUVs will be produced in Maubeuge

- The announced closure of the Nissan plant in Barcelona (Spain) will cause a transfer of light utility vehicles (LUVs) within the production plants of the Renault-Nissan group. Indeed, since the end of production of the Nissan Pulsar sedan in 2018, there were only two families of vehicles produced at the Barcelona site:

• The mid-range pickups: Nissan Navara, Renault Alaskan and Mercedes Classe X.

• Nissan NV200 minivan (segment N1-1), which are now all fully electric.

- However, Renault and Mercedes pick-ups saw their production stopped in this plant last year due to lacking demand. 1,800 Mercedes X-Classes were sold in 2020 and less than a hundred Renault Alaskans. However, production of the Renault pickup continues in Argentina. As for the Nissan Navara, it sold 7,800 in Europe last year, but production will be transferred to Thailand when the model will be replaced, which is expected to take effect next summer.

- The NV200 minivans were sold at 7,500 units in Europe last year, and the carmaker does not want to remove it from its product range. This model will have a replacement which will not be the Kangoo (there is already a Nissan version of the Kangoo which is named NV250). This replacement will be produced at the Maubeuge plant, alongside the Renault Kangoo, Nissan NV250 and Mercedes T-Class (Mercedes derivate version of the Kangoo). The Nissan NV300 (segment N1-2) will continue to be produced at the Sandouville plant (France) alongside the Renault Trafic and the NV400 (segment N1-3) at the Batilly plant (France), alongside the Renault Master.

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続きを読む... Renault and Nissan's European N1-1 segment LUVs will be produced in Maubeuge

詳細: 上で公開 2021年03月11日

Inovev forecasts 50,000 units per year of the new DS 4

- While the Citroën C4 Cactus was replaced at the end of 2020 by the new C4, which is produced in the same production plant (Villaverdein Spain), the Stellantis group has just unveiled the new DS 4 which succeeds to the previous DS 4 stopped at the end of 2018.

- This C-segment model positioned in the "Premium" market intends to compete with the Audi A3, BMW 1 Series and Mercedes A-Class. Volvo does not sell model in this segment since last year with the discontinuation of its V40 sedan. Lexus, which has just stopped the production of the CT sedan to only market the UX SUV in this segment.

- This new DS model is based on the EMP2 platform (also used by the Peugeot 308 and 508) will be produced in the German plant in Rüsselsheim (ex-Opel plant), alongside the future Opel Astra which will be unveiled in a few weeks, and which will use the same platform and the same engines.

- The new DS 4, which is in the same C-segment as the DS 7 Crossback SUV, will be equipped with the same 1.2-liter 130 hp and 1.6-liter 180 hp petrol engines. A 130hp 1.5-liter diesel will complete the range (the 2-liter diesel being reserved for upper-segment cars), as well as a 225hp 1.6-liter plug-in hybrid (PHEV) petrol.

- Inovev forecasts 50,000 units per year of the new DS 4, which will not be available in a full electric version (BEV), as the Stellantisplatform designed for electric cars in C / D segments will go into production only in 2023.

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続きを読む... Inovev forecasts 50,000 units per year of the new DS 4

詳細: 上で公開 2021年03月11日

The Argentinian market (PC + LUV) fell by 26.4% in 2020

- The Argentinian automotive market for light vehicles (passenger - PCs and light utility vehicles - LUVs) fell by 26.4% in 2020, to 323,692 units against 440,000 in 2019.

- The Argentinian market had already experienced a drop in registrations in 2018 and especially in 2019, due to a serious economic crisis. After declining 43% in 2019, the Argentinian market fell again by 26.4% in 2020 due to the Covid crisis. The last year market returned to the level of the early 2000s (300,000 sales), while the peak of 2013 reached a volume three times higher (900,000 sales).

- In this context, the carmakers are suffering waiting for a hypothetical increase of sales. The Volkswagen group (-13.6%) becomes the leader of a shrunken Argentinian market, with a market share of 18.5%, taking over the Renault-Nissan group which falls by 31.3% and now only holds 16,4% of the market. Following are the groups FCA (-9.7%; 14.5% of market share), Toyota (-32.6%; 13%), GM (-30.7%; 10.4%), PSA (-23.3%; 10.1%) and Ford (-35.9%; 9.7%) which seems to moving back from the South American market as a whole, too sensitive to disturbances.

- SUV sales have grown from 17% of the Argentinian market in 2019 to 19% in 2020, a figure much lower than that achieved by most of the major markets.