Jaguar Land Rover in Austria - Jaguar Land Rover has announced a new manufacturing agreement with Magna Steyr that will see some of its future models built in Austria.
The new agreement is intended to free up production resources and relieve pressure on JLR's UK factories, which are understood to be nearing full capacity.
Jaguar Land Rover in Austria
Magna Steyr, which operates its own factory in Graz, Austria, already builds vehicles for other car manufacturers. In the past, Magna Steyr has produced cars including the Peugeot RCZ, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and the Mini Countryman.
While Jaguar Land Rover has not revealed the vehicles will be produced at the factory Magna Steyr, Magna Steyr for candidates to build including Land Rover discovery Range Rover Evoque sport, Cabriolet and smaller variants of F-Jaguar crossover Pace.
JLR has already committed to carrying 12 vehicles are new or fresh to the market during the 2015-16. At the same time the company will invest £ 3.6 billion in new vehicle development and expansion.
Bring some manufacturing of vehicles to the site of Magna Steyr will allow the company more time to find your own European factory bespoke. Autocar understands the new plant will build a model based on a new aluminum architecture company, with the replacement of the lead candidate to become the next defender of overseas production.
Though the steps to build the factory in Eastern Europe might prove controversial, JLR's three UK plants already packed to capacity.
Evoque and discovery sports – both of which are based on the platform of JLR's steel-D8 is currently built in the Northwest in Halewood, which is expected to operate at maximum capacity.
Castle Bromwich site will build the new F-XF and speed, both of which are based on the architecture of the small aluminum D7a.
Solihull building Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Jaguar XE. Try to squeeze in a discovery or production model 5 range Rover third expected could lead to the discovery of 5 being made in Eastern Europe.
Known internally as the ' Darwin ' and project codenamed L663, new Defender must be the main product line for new facilities. However, if sales of the range Rover Sport continues to boom and crossover Jaguar F-Pace also successful sales, lack of capacity in the United Kingdom might mean another model has been made on a new factory.
Autocar understands that the current thinking among planners JLR is that discovery 5 – codenamed L462 – can also be made in the new facility.
Sources say JLR boss has been shrinking down the site for a new factory for two potential locations.
The first possibility is near Gyor in Hungary, which will allow the company to take advantage of the supplier base was built by Audi for the local production of TT Coupé and with four-cylinder engines.
The second site is probably somewhere in Poland, though the sources could not be more specific.
JLR private sources insist that opened a factory in Central or Eastern Europe and move some production to Austria not to votes of no confidence in the United Kingdom but only the functions of the UK plant is getting close to capacity and the need to deploy a production footprint, following in the footsteps of rivals such as Mercedes and BMW.
JLR has already had production in China and is building its own facility in Brazil.
