Inovev forecasts 300,000 new Subaru Forester global sales yearly
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Inovev forecasts 300,000 new Subaru Forester global sales yearly
- Subaru (18th world manufacturer in 2017) unveiled the new generation of the Forester SUV at the New York Auto show. This model has its highest sales in the United States (180,000 units sold in 2017 out of a total of 293,000 units produced). The Forester is also the manufacturer's best-selling model (27% of its total sales) and will be as previously exclusively manufactured in Japan (Yajima).
- This year’s launch is the fifth generation that succeeds the latest model released in 2012. Its design remains very close to that of the previous generation. The Forester therefore retains its traditional style that mixes SUV and elevated station wagon features . The real Subaru SUV is the Ascent that was introduced at the last Detroit Auto Show in January 2018.
- Developed on the new modular platform Subaru Global Platform (already used by the XV and Impreza, and soon by the future Legacy, Levorg and Outback), the new Forester is equipped for Europe with a diesel engine H4 2.0 LD developing 147hp and a 150 hp H4 2.0 L petrol engine; the USA will have only the H4 2.5 L gasoline engine developing 182hp. For reasons of emissions level, this engine will not be available in Europe.
- Inovev expects a global total of 300,000 sales per year from the new Forester.
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Ford USA will import the Focus from China as of the 2019 model year
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Ford USA will import the Focus from China as of the 2019 model year
- The Ford group has confirmed that the future generation of the Focus Sedan to be marketed as of the 2019 model year, that is to say starting autumn 2018, would no longer be manufactured in the United States ( on the Wayne - Michigan site) but imported from China where it will now be manufactured (on the Chongqing site).
- The US version of the Focus Sedan is indeed identical to the Chinese Focus Sedan, that is to say, it has an apparent trunk (sedan body), unlike the European version that includes a hatchback. It is therefore easy to manufacture the American and Chinese versions of the Focus Sedan on the same assembly lines.
- The advantage of this transfer of production from the American Focus to China is to concentrate the manufacture of this model on a single site instead of two and to thus double the volume of production of Chongqing. Since in 2017 practically as many Ford Focus were produced in the United States as in China (around 170,000 units for each of the two assembly plants).
- Ford announced that the US plant that now produces the Focus for the North American market will stop this activity at the end of 2018 in order to concentrate during the following year on the manufacture of the future Ford Ranger (2019) and Bronco (2020) light trucks.
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Inovev forecasts production of 750,000 new Ford Focus per year
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Inovev forecasts production of 750,000 new Ford Focus per year
- Ford unveils the fourth generation of the Focus whose origins date back to 1998. This international model is one of Ford’s best-sellers (635,000 units in 2017, or nearly 10% of its global sales). It is sold in most countries of the world and produced in Germany (240,000 units in 2017), China (170,000 units), the United States (180,000 units), Argentina (30,000 units) and Russia (15,000 units).
- Yet the Ford Focus has lost a lot of influence since the appearance of the Ford Escort in China in 2014, which has taken many customers away from the Focus . Focus's sales in China decreased from 400,000 units in 2013 to 170,000 in 2017, while Escort's sales increased from 0 units in 2013 to 300,000 units in 2017. As for the North American market, less fond of sedans, it has resulted in a significant decline in sales of the Focus for several years (180,000 units in 2017).
- Moreover, the new generation Focus will no longer be manufactured in the United States for the North American market, but in China from where it will be imported, which will double the production of Focus in this country and recover its 2013 levels. Inovev expects production of 750,000 Focus per year worldwide, of which 250,000 in Europe, and 400,000 in China. The new Focus is equipped with petrol engines 3 cylinders 1.0 (85hp, 100hp, 125hp) and 4 cylinders 1.5 (150hp, 180hp), as well as diesel engines- only for Europe -4 cylinders 1.5 (95hp, 120hp) and 4 cylinders 2.0 (150hp).
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Great Wall will start production at its new Russian factory in 2019
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Great Wall will start production at its new Russian factory in 2019
- The Chinese manufacturer Great Wall will start production at its new Russian plant in 2019. The plant will be located in Tula, a town in southwestern Russia, 200 kilometers south of Moscow, with a production capacity of 75,000 vehicles a year, much larger than that of Lovech in Bulgaria, which closed in 2016, after four years of activity. Great Wall has also announced that in case of high demand, the capacity of the Tula plant could be doubled, and thus reach 150,000 vehicles per year. The Chinese manufacturer is working on this very optimistic scenario considering:
1. the growth of the Russian market for the years 2019-2024.
2. the increase in SUV market share in the Russian market during this period of growth.
3. the preference of the Russian clientele for the acquisition of inexpensive but reliable SUVs like the Great Wall Haval.
- Haval is the SUV division of the Great Wall Group, which now offers a range of models, the H1, H2, H5, H6, H7, H8, H9 which account for most of the million sales made in China last year. The manufacturer will be spoiled for choice for the model or models that will be manufactured in the Tula plant. In 2017, Great Wall sold 1,894 vehicles in Russia including 1,444 Haval H6, 234 Haval H2, 180 Haval H9 and 36 Haval H8. Haval H6 could be the first model made in Tula in 2019.
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Inovev forecasts production of 950,000 Toyota RAV4 per year
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Inovev forecasts production of 950,000 Toyota RAV4 per year
- The RAV4 is the most produced SUV in the world (840,000 units in 2017), ahead of VW Tiguan (745,000), Honda CRV (695,000), Nissan Rogue (490,000) and Nissan Qashqai (475,000). It is currently manufactured in four different countries: Japan (430,000 units in 2017), Canada (250,000), China (130,000) and Russia (30,000). It is the most produced model in Japan and Asia in 2017, but also the fourth most produced in the world, behind the Ford F Series F, Toyota Corolla and Volkswagen Golf. The evolution of its production volume is spectacular, since this volume increased from 250,000 in 2005 to 450,000 in 2010, 600,000 in 2013 and 840,000 in 2017.
- This is why its replacement is special, as it is crucial for Toyota. Toyota unveiled the fifth generation of the RAV4 at the 2018 New York Motor Show, which replaces the previous generation launched in 2013. The design of the new RAV4 is totally different and more similar to their luxury subsidiary Lexus’ SUV.
- The new RAV4 is built on the modular TNGA platform that lowers its center of gravity. Longer by 3cm (4.60m), the RAV4 will no longer be available in diesel version (like the Honda CRV) but only in gasoline version 2.0 or hybrid version 2.5.
- The success of the model is expected to continue with this new generation, and Inovev expects a production increase to between 900,000 and 950,000 units per year for the next four years.
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