The largest private employer in the Rennes area can breathe easy. According to Carlos Tavares, the boss of Stellantis, the Rennes-La Janais production site will be able to continue to ensure production until 2028. Monday November 18, during a press conference, the group with 14 brands around the world completed the delivery of more than 4,000 robots, via 183 heavy goods vehicles, to the production site. In recent months, Stellantis has spent more than 160 million euros to prepare the arrival of the STLA-Medium platform in the factory, and make it capable of producing future thermal, hybrid and electric versions of a Citroën.
Stellantis had already prepared its other French sites, namely Sochaux, Eisenach (Germany) and Melfi (Italy), but this XXL move of the machines will also be to the detriment of Sochaux, where they were located. Stellantis says it has found an industrial opportunity, on the site which was responsible for the production of the Citroën C5 Aircross and the second generation Peugeot 5008. The future, with the STLA-Medium platform, will materialize in particular by the launch of the future compact SUV from Citroën which is due to be released in the spring, and which was announced at the last Paris Motor Show under a concept of the new C5 Aircross .
The last Citroën produced in France
This future model will be very specific: it will be the last, at Citroën, to be produced in France. Made in France has literally disappeared from the company's policy, which now relies on Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia and China. A threat to the Rennes site, and already a victim: the Sochaux site. In Brittany, Carlos Tavares indicated that “to date, in France, we have no problem with vehicle allocation until at least 2028, or in most cases until 2030 or 2032.”
The new Citroën SUV will still have to sell to justify the new machines present on the site, the employees and the investment. In Belgium, Audi recently announced the closure of a factory near Brussels, which only produced one SUV, the Q8 e-tron.
“I am convinced of its attractiveness, its powerful platform, its habitability, its infotainment and its overall quality. However, guaranteeing its success is impossible. It would be intellectually dishonest to pretend otherwise. The success of a model depends on its attractiveness, its price positioning, its quality, and our ability to meet market expectations.declared the boss of Stellantis about the future model to come for Rennes production. The 4,000 robots at the Sochaux site were previously used for the production of the old 3008.
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