The "big three" for the first time will yield the first place in the production

29 September 2017

Ford, GM and FCA will be behind companies from Europe and Asia

Edition autonews.com reported that the "Big Detroit Troika" for the first time in the history will lose the first place on volume of release of cars in North America. According to analysts, Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for 2017 in the amount of produce 8.6 million cars, while companies from Europe and Asia, as well as Tesla, will gather 8.7 million.

By 2024, the gap will only increase: the traditional American brands will gather approximately 8.1 million vehicles in North America, while their opponents put on the market of 9.8 million cars.

You must understand that in this case we are not talking about sales in the US market, and the number of cars assembled in North America, i.e. USA and Canada. Direct impact on the redistribution of production has the desire of Ford, GM and FCA to take out some of the Assembly plants in Mexico (although geographically it is also located in North America) and China in an attempt to reduce the cost of production.

All this is happening against the background of the requirements of Donald trump return Assembly capacities automakers back in the United States threatened to impose imported from Mexico cars high duties. According to experts, this policy has worked primarily on foreign companies that fear losing their share in the us market.

IHS analyst Markit Joe Langley (Joe Langley) believes that by 2024, the volume of car production in Mexico will grow from the current 4 million to 4.5. Meanwhile, canadian workers have gone on strike at factory GM in Ontario in protest against the decision of the automaker is about cutting jobs and moving to Mexico, where 5начнут to assemble the crossovers.

Some other companies prefer to invest in Chinese factories. For example, Ford decided to move production of the Ford model in North America for an Assembly plant in China.

Direct impact on this process has Tesla, which is an American company, but in this case opposed to the "Detroit three." In the near future, Elon Musk, head of Tesla, plans to increase production to 500,000 cars a year at its two plants in California and Nevada.