Brazil: Latest automotive news & analysis
There was once euphoria in the Brazilian automotive market. Following the 2008/2009 financial crisis, the Lehman Brothers bank bankruptcy and the chain reaction that spread worldwide, auto companies lodged here coincidentally commenced to profit enormously. And the order of the day became rescuing indebted parent companies, especially General Motors (at the time in Chapter eleven proceedings), Ford and Fiat.
As Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover’s factory in Brazil officially opens, Ian Henry takes a closer look at the company’s latest manufacturing set-up and its evolving international manufacturing strategy.
The time seems to have come: no one is sure about how long the Brazilian economy will keep getting worse before recovery starts.
The perennial rivalry inbetween the optimistic and the pessimistic about what the Brazilian market will be like this year has hit a peak in the last few weeks.
After some tense negotiations, both sides ended up yielding ground and the renewed automotive accord inbetween Brazil and Mexico was eventually signed yesterday (9 March) in Rio de Janeiro. Yet analysis suggests Brazil managed to achieve little advantage besides renewing import/export quotas for four years.
Latest news
Ahead of its launch of the redesigned Polo (European media launch is on this week), the very first of a fresh, subcompact range to be built in Brazil on the VW group’s modular MQB platform, Volkswagen Brazil is undertaking a hefty programme of advance promotion.
Conceived in two thousand eleven for the Brazilian market, the T40 has eventually arrived, in the middle of ‘course corrections’ for JAC’s operations here in Brazil.
Toyoda Gosei will acquire a 100% stake in Pecval Industria (Pecval), a manufacturer of automotive interior and exterior parts in Brazil, by December 2017. This budge is intended to consolidate Toyoda Gosei’s business foundation in the country’s promising market.
General Motors will spend BRL1.4bn/US$430m on its Gravataí plant in state of Rio Grande do Sul.
If the Brazilian buyer has taken some time to understand – and especially to accept – the subcompact idea, the debut of the Renault Kwid will straighten this out.
Time flies. It’s fourteen years since Ford Brazil was very first in the blue oval empire to launch the EcoSport B-SUV [primarily restricted mainly to South America – ed] and it’s done well here in South America.
Nissan Brazil has commenced a 2nd shift at its Resende factory.
Brazil is in a privileged position for tens unit generation and land vehicle fuel production thanks to its ethanol infrastructure. While countries in the so-called ‘developed world’ need expensive and hard-to-implement solutions to reduce CO2 emission, with projects sometimes taking decades to produce tangible results, this country can count on biofuels now.
After the continuous lowering of the average age of the Brazilian vehicle parc, which lasted for nine consecutive years, the renewal has now reversed.
Ford Brazil is launching a fresh, 1.Five litre, three cylinder, ripple fuel engine in the updated EcoSport. Internally known as Dragon, the engine originally will come from Ford India, where it is in production but not used in any locally produced model but the Brazilian powertrain plant in Taubaté, 146km/91 miles east of São Paulo City will eventually produce it as a replacement for the current four-cylinder, 1.6-litre Sigma motor.
Automotive Industry News in Brazil, Autos Comment, Auto Analysis
Brazil: Latest automotive news & analysis
There was once euphoria in the Brazilian automotive market. Following the 2008/2009 financial crisis, the Lehman Brothers bank bankruptcy and the chain reaction that spread worldwide, auto companies lodged here coincidentally commenced to profit enormously. And the order of the day became rescuing indebted parent companies, especially General Motors (at the time in Chapter eleven proceedings), Ford and Fiat.
As Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover’s factory in Brazil officially opens, Ian Henry takes a closer look at the company’s latest manufacturing set-up and its evolving international manufacturing strategy.
The time seems to have come: no one is sure about how long the Brazilian economy will keep getting worse before recovery starts.
The perennial rivalry inbetween the optimistic and the pessimistic about what the Brazilian market will be like this year has hit a peak in the last few weeks.
After some tense negotiations, both sides ended up yielding ground and the renewed automotive accord inbetween Brazil and Mexico was eventually signed yesterday (9 March) in Rio de Janeiro. Yet analysis suggests Brazil managed to achieve little advantage besides renewing import/export quotas for four years.
Latest news
Ahead of its launch of the redesigned Polo (European media launch is on this week), the very first of a fresh, subcompact range to be built in Brazil on the VW group’s modular MQB platform, Volkswagen Brazil is undertaking a hefty programme of advance promotion.
Conceived in two thousand eleven for the Brazilian market, the T40 has eventually arrived, in the middle of ‘course corrections’ for JAC’s operations here in Brazil.
Toyoda Gosei will acquire a 100% stake in Pecval Industria (Pecval), a manufacturer of automotive interior and exterior parts in Brazil, by December 2017. This stir is intended to consolidate Toyoda Gosei’s business foundation in the country’s promising market.
General Motors will spend BRL1.4bn/US$430m on its Gravataí plant in state of Rio Grande do Sul.
If the Brazilian buyer has taken some time to understand – and especially to accept – the subcompact idea, the debut of the Renault Kwid will straighten this out.
Time flies. It’s fourteen years since Ford Brazil was very first in the blue oval empire to launch the EcoSport B-SUV [primarily restricted mainly to South America – ed] and it’s done well here in South America.
Nissan Brazil has commenced a 2nd shift at its Resende factory.
Brazil is in a privileged position for electric current generation and land vehicle fuel production thanks to its ethanol infrastructure. While countries in the so-called ‘developed world’ need expensive and hard-to-implement solutions to reduce CO2 emission, with projects sometimes taking decades to produce tangible results, this country can count on biofuels now.
After the continuous lowering of the average age of the Brazilian vehicle parc, which lasted for nine consecutive years, the renewal has now reversed.
Ford Brazil is launching a fresh, 1.Five litre, three cylinder, ripple fuel engine in the updated EcoSport. Internally known as Dragon, the engine primarily will come from Ford India, where it is in production but not used in any locally produced model but the Brazilian powertrain plant in Taubaté, 146km/91 miles east of São Paulo City will eventually produce it as a replacement for the current four-cylinder, 1.6-litre Sigma motor.
Automotive Industry News in Brazil, Autos Comment, Auto Analysis
Brazil: Latest automotive news & analysis
There was once euphoria in the Brazilian automotive market. Following the 2008/2009 financial crisis, the Lehman Brothers bank bankruptcy and the chain reaction that spread worldwide, auto companies lodged here coincidentally commenced to profit enormously. And the order of the day became rescuing indebted parent companies, especially General Motors (at the time in Chapter eleven proceedings), Ford and Fiat.
As Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover’s factory in Brazil officially opens, Ian Henry takes a closer look at the company’s latest manufacturing set-up and its evolving international manufacturing strategy.
The time seems to have come: no one is sure about how long the Brazilian economy will keep getting worse before recovery starts.
The perennial rivalry inbetween the optimistic and the pessimistic about what the Brazilian market will be like this year has hit a peak in the last few weeks.
After some tense negotiations, both sides ended up yielding ground and the renewed automotive accord inbetween Brazil and Mexico was eventually signed yesterday (9 March) in Rio de Janeiro. Yet analysis suggests Brazil managed to achieve little advantage besides renewing import/export quotas for four years.
Latest news
Ahead of its launch of the redesigned Polo (European media launch is on this week), the very first of a fresh, subcompact range to be built in Brazil on the VW group’s modular MQB platform, Volkswagen Brazil is undertaking a massive programme of advance promotion.
Conceived in two thousand eleven for the Brazilian market, the T40 has ultimately arrived, in the middle of ‘course corrections’ for JAC’s operations here in Brazil.
Toyoda Gosei will acquire a 100% stake in Pecval Industria (Pecval), a manufacturer of automotive interior and exterior parts in Brazil, by December 2017. This budge is intended to consolidate Toyoda Gosei’s business foundation in the country’s promising market.
General Motors will spend BRL1.4bn/US$430m on its Gravataí plant in state of Rio Grande do Sul.
If the Brazilian buyer has taken some time to understand – and especially to accept – the subcompact idea, the debut of the Renault Kwid will straighten this out.
Time flies. It’s fourteen years since Ford Brazil was very first in the blue oval empire to launch the EcoSport B-SUV [primarily restricted mainly to South America – ed] and it’s done well here in South America.
Nissan Brazil has began a 2nd shift at its Resende factory.
Brazil is in a privileged position for electric current generation and land vehicle fuel production thanks to its ethanol infrastructure. While countries in the so-called ‘developed world’ need expensive and hard-to-implement solutions to reduce CO2 emission, with projects sometimes taking decades to produce tangible results, this country can count on biofuels now.
After the continuous lowering of the average age of the Brazilian vehicle parc, which lasted for nine consecutive years, the renewal has now reversed.
Ford Brazil is launching a fresh, 1.Five litre, three cylinder, ripple fuel engine in the updated EcoSport. Internally known as Dragon, the engine primarily will come from Ford India, where it is in production but not used in any locally produced model but the Brazilian powertrain plant in Taubaté, 146km/91 miles east of São Paulo City will eventually produce it as a replacement for the current four-cylinder, 1.6-litre Sigma motor.
Automotive Industry News in Brazil, Autos Comment, Auto Analysis
Brazil: Latest automotive news & analysis
There was once euphoria in the Brazilian automotive market. Following the 2008/2009 financial crisis, the Lehman Brothers bank bankruptcy and the chain reaction that spread worldwide, auto companies lodged here coincidentally commenced to profit enormously. And the order of the day became rescuing indebted parent companies, especially General Motors (at the time in Chapter eleven proceedings), Ford and Fiat.
As Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover’s factory in Brazil officially opens, Ian Henry takes a closer look at the company’s latest manufacturing set-up and its evolving international manufacturing strategy.
The time seems to have come: no one is sure about how long the Brazilian economy will keep getting worse before recovery starts.
The perennial rivalry inbetween the optimistic and the pessimistic about what the Brazilian market will be like this year has hit a peak in the last few weeks.
After some tense negotiations, both sides ended up yielding ground and the renewed automotive accord inbetween Brazil and Mexico was ultimately signed yesterday (9 March) in Rio de Janeiro. Yet analysis suggests Brazil managed to achieve little advantage besides renewing import/export quotas for four years.
Latest news
Ahead of its launch of the redesigned Polo (European media launch is on this week), the very first of a fresh, subcompact range to be built in Brazil on the VW group’s modular MQB platform, Volkswagen Brazil is undertaking a fat programme of advance promotion.
Conceived in two thousand eleven for the Brazilian market, the T40 has ultimately arrived, in the middle of ‘course corrections’ for JAC’s operations here in Brazil.
Toyoda Gosei will acquire a 100% stake in Pecval Industria (Pecval), a manufacturer of automotive interior and exterior parts in Brazil, by December 2017. This budge is intended to consolidate Toyoda Gosei’s business foundation in the country’s promising market.
General Motors will spend BRL1.4bn/US$430m on its Gravataí plant in state of Rio Grande do Sul.
If the Brazilian buyer has taken some time to understand – and especially to accept – the subcompact idea, the debut of the Renault Kwid will straighten this out.
Time flies. It’s fourteen years since Ford Brazil was very first in the blue oval empire to launch the EcoSport B-SUV [primarily restricted mainly to South America – ed] and it’s done well here in South America.
Nissan Brazil has commenced a 2nd shift at its Resende factory.
Brazil is in a privileged position for tens unit generation and land vehicle fuel production thanks to its ethanol infrastructure. While countries in the so-called ‘developed world’ need expensive and hard-to-implement solutions to reduce CO2 emission, with projects sometimes taking decades to produce tangible results, this country can count on biofuels now.
After the continuous lowering of the average age of the Brazilian vehicle parc, which lasted for nine consecutive years, the renewal has now reversed.
Ford Brazil is launching a fresh, 1.Five litre, three cylinder, ripple fuel engine in the updated EcoSport. Internally known as Dragon, the engine primarily will come from Ford India, where it is in production but not used in any locally produced model but the Brazilian powertrain plant in Taubaté, 146km/91 miles east of São Paulo City will eventually produce it as a replacement for the current four-cylinder, 1.6-litre Sigma motor.