Shanghai-Volkswagen news (newest: SAIC-Audi JV)

BringIt said:

It's about time these VW blood-suckers, after decades of making money hand over fist, design and export some cars out of China. (Think about it, what were they doing all these decades? Blood sucking leeches if you ask me...

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January 21 (Gasgoo.com) – Starting in May this year, VW’s Santana 3000 will be produced in a Nanjing plant, state media Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday.

The plant, located in Jiangning Development Zone, Nanjing, is expected to produce 60,000 Santana 3000 vehicles in 2008 and will have a capacity of 300,000 by 2012, the Xinhua report said.

The plant, formerly owned by Nanjing Yuejin Automobile Group, now becomes a product facility of Shanghai VW under a strategic cooperation agreement reached between Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation and Nanjing Yuejin Automobile Group a few weeks ago.

Santana is Shanghai Volkswagen’s best selling model in Chinese market. In 2007, Shanghai Volkswagen sold 106,086 Santana vehicles and 97,048 Santana 3000 vehicles.

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January 31, 2008 – Shanghai will launch its first own brand Model Y or Santana 4000 this year, Chinese media reported today.

Shanghai VW plans to launch five car models this year, the joint venture automaker announced last week. So far three models--- Cross Polo, Santana Vista and Touran have already on sale in Chinese. The automaker plans to launch Skoda Fabia and Model Y or Santana 4000 in the second half of this year.

Shanghai-Volkswagen plans to produce 590,000 vehicles this year in a bid to take back its No.1 position in China’s passenger vehicle industry, the automaker’s new general manager said in a recent company conference.

"To achieve this goal, we will reduce production costs by 40 percent," Liu Jian, General Manager of Shanghai VW, told a company conference last week.

Shanghai-Volkswagen sold 456,424 vehicles in China last year, second to Shanghai GM, which sold 500,308 vehicles in the same period.

Shanghai VW’s had been China’s top passenger vehicles seller for twenty years until it was lost to Shanghai GM over the past three years.

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June 18, 2008 - Shanghai Volkswagon has postponed its ambitious plans to locally build Fabia and Tiguan in China before the end of this year, the 21st Century Business Herald reports.

It has emerged that the joint venture automaker, due to make and launch Fabia and Tiguan later this year, has put off the plans until next year.

The report said the delay was announced as its Fabia 1.4L model is proved to contain polluting substance that fails to meet China's national standards. Shanghai VW is still undertaking further test on the model to dissolve this defect.

The automaker also abandoned the plan to launch Tiguan within this year due to low sales expectations stemming form reduced government spending on purchasing vehicles.

Shanghai VW, a China joint venture of Volkswagen, is likely to rely on Lavide, its only new model this year, to maintain its sales position. It sold 38,119 vehicles in the month of May, down 20% from the previous month.

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Shanghai VW are reportedly working on another secret car, possibly a ‘New Midsize Sedan’ or NMS. The car is expected to replace the VW Passat Lingyu in China by 2010, and will also go on sale in the USA. The car is planned to be the same size as the currenty Toyota Camry, but at the usual VW price.

VW are planning to build a new production plant in Chattanooga, USA which will produce the NMS by 2011, which could lead to Chinese made VW NMS’ models being sold in the US for a year.

The Chinese press were unable to get an official comment from Shanghai VW on the NMS project, however, last year Shanghai VW and VW came to an agreement that Shanghai VW would be responsible for developing a new vehicle body including exterior and interior parts.

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Volkswagen (VW) has announced its plan to build its US assembly plant and a new model (code named NMS) for the plant. Now the so-called NMS (New Midsize Sedan), of the same class with Passat B6, is reportedly to be developed jointly by VW and its Chinese joint venture Shanghai VW, according to Information Times newspaper.

Last July, Volkswagen and Shanghai VW announced to build an all-new sedan based on the latest generation of German B-Class platform for both North American and Chinese markets. As VW's US plant made clear recently, the new model is disclosed to be the NMS by Shanghai VW and German VW, the report said, citing American newspapers.

NMS, though at the same class with Passat B6, will be oriented below the B6. It will be priced lower than the current Magotan in the China market.

"The Passat remains the Passat. The Passat will be positioned above that mid-sized sedan (NMS). That mid-sized sedan is to rival Malibu, Accord fighter, Camry, said Volkswagen Group of America CEO Stefan Jacob.

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VW to kill of Santana production in 2012.

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Volkswagen and the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) have signed an agreement to build Audi-branded cars. The shareholders are Shanghai-Volkswagen and Audi, with each holding a 50% stake. The first vehicle will be shown in concept form on the Shanghai Auto Show in April 2017. Production is set to start in early 2018. The joint venture will be called ‘Shanghai-Volkswagen Audi’.


Volkswagen has two joint ventures in China: FAW-Volkswagen, based in Changchun, makes Audi and Volkswagen cars. Shanghai-Volkswagen, based in Shanghai, makes Volkswagen cars.

The latter also makes Skodas for the Chinese market under a similar agreement as with the new Audi deal: a 50-50% joint venture with Shanghai-Volkswagen and Skoda as the sole shareholders. This joint venture is called ‘Shanghai-Volkswagen Skoda’.

Volkswagen hasn’t announced which cars Shanghai-Volkswagen Audi is going to make. However, based on rumors and some informed guesswork we believe there will be two initially: an Audi variant of the upcoming Volkswagen Teramont (VW Atlas), and a new luxury sedan that will be positioned between the locally made Audi A6L and the Audi A8.

The move to make Audis in Shanghai signifies a closer relationship between Volkswagen and SAIC and a worsening relationship with FAW, which appears unable and unwilling to live up to their part of the joint venture deal with Volkswagen. Recent product launches already told the story: the shiny new Phideon and the above mentioned Teramont both went to Shanghai, with FAW missing out.

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CCF mod said:

Volkswagen And SAIC Sign New Joint Venture To Make Audis In China

http://www.carnewschina.com/2016/11...ign-new-joint-venture-to-make-audis-in-china/
http://www.autohome.com.cn/news/201611/895482.html#pvareaid=2023114

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dmitra said:

Last month, SAIC-VW launched five Chinese-sourced models in the Philippines:
Santana, Santana GTS (Gran), Lavida (old), Lamando, and Tiguan (old).

https://www.autoindustriya.com/auto-industry-news/volkswagen-philippines-drops-jetta-golf-gts-polo-in-favor-of-china-models.html

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