koda Auto victory over SEAT announced for key investment
The Czech Republic and local car maker koda Auto appear to have won the battle with Spain and auto maker SEAT to build a new large sports utility vehicle. Strong behind the scenes lobbying by Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has been one of the factors in the Czech campaign to land the investment.
Illustrative photo: koda Auto Czech daily Mlad Fronta Dnes reported Tuesday that koda Autos east Bohemian factory at Kvasiny had been selected by the Volkswagen Group to manufacture the new model over a rival bid from SEATs Martorell plant in Barcelona. Dnes cited several well informed sources from the Czech car maker and its suppliers for its story, adding that an official announcement would be made later on Tuesday or on Friday.
Czech Prime Minister Sobotka is due to visit Volkswagens headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, on Friday and the around 10 billion crown investment should also be raised with German Chanacellor Angela Merkel during the same trip. Sobotka said on Czech Televisions flagship current affairs programme on Sunday in connection with the koda Auto investment that it was of the upmost importance to get new job opportunities for the country.
Rumours that Volkswagen bosses had already selected Kvasiny over Martorell already leaked out at the start of the year. SEATs local bosses insisted back then that the race was still on. While Spanish unions argued that only Czech wage costs are lower other factors could inflate the bill for production at Kvasiny and that Volkswagen had in the past shifted production to Slovak capital Bratislava and later come to regret it when production costs overshot expectations. Some of the blow for the Barcelona plant might be cushioned by the fact that a new line of night time production was launched at the start of this month and around 450 temporary workers taken on permanently thanks to soaring sales of the Leon and Ibiza models.
For Kvasiny, the preparations to launch production of the new model, so far dubbed the snowman from 2016 or 2017 would be a turnaround in the fortunes of a plant that has long been the poor sister of the main koda Auto plant at Mlad Boleslav. Kvasiny, the youngest of kodas three plants, currently manufactures the top of the range Superb, the Yeti, and the Roomster. The future of the plant, which employs around 4,500, and produces around 150,000 cars a year has often been called into question over recent years.
For koda Auto, the Kvasiny investment would also make much more tangible board chairman Winfried Vahlands vision of the Czech carmaker producing 1.5 million units worldwide by 2018.
That ambitious target came under fire only last week when auto sector research company IHS Automotrive said that koda Auto would be hard pressed to exceed the 1.16 million production mark within four years. Last year, the carmaker saw sales slip to 920,800 compared with 939,200 in 2012. The company says that sales should be boosted from 2016 onwards with the expected unveiling of a new model every six months.
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koda Auto victory over SEAT announced for key investment
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