[Mexico] JAC Motors & Giant Motors in Mexico (Sales)
Chinese automaker JAC Motors aims to build 40,000 cars per year in Hidalgo
Chinese state-owned automaker JAC Motors is currently in an expansion phase to produce about 40,000 vehicles per year for both the Mexican and export markets.
The president of the Board of Directors of Giant Motors Latin America, Elias Massri Sasson, told Notimex news outlet that the company currently builds two SUVs and the subcompact J4 at the assembly plant located in Ciudad Sahagun, Hidalgo for the domestic market, but there’s plans to take advantage of the Mexico’s trade agreements.
Interviewed during the inauguration of a new dealership in Mexico City, the manager said the company has opened 15 sales points in the first 11 months since they formally started operations in the country.
The official added that the automaker plans include closing the year with 30 dealerships in operation and 30,000 units produced, of which 1,200 will be marketed in Mexico.
Hidalgo is a central Mexican state sprawling north of Mexico City. The windswept state capital, Pachuca, features a neoclassical clock tower, colonial buildings like the Spanish baroque San Francisco Church, and the Museo de Minería museum, exploring the region’s mining history. To the west is Tula, an archaeological site with pyramids and large stone columns shaped like warriors—vestiges of the Toltec Empire.
Area: 20,813 km²
JAC Sei4 #Sport Edition
2018: In this summer, JAC with Mexico enjoy this world game together. We have joys and tears, but we still go forward tighter. As the only Chinese passenger car brand entering Mexico in the current year, JAC Motors officially made breakthrough into the Mexican market with Refine S2 and S3, a breakthrough in the overseas market for passenger cars. JAC has also become the only Chinese auto brand in the local market that covers a full range of products for commercial vehicles and passenger vehicles.
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JAC goes electric in Mexico
https://www.paradigma.live/2019/11/15/jac-presento-la-primera-linea-de-automoviles-electricos-ensamblados-en-hidalgo/
JAC Motors SUVs go on sale in Naucalpan Vehicle is built in Hidalgo through joint venture with Chinese auto maker The smaller of the two, the SEI2, has a base price of 259,900 pesos (US $13, 850); the larger SEI3 has a price of 279,000 pesos. Both carry a guarantee of five years or 100,000 kilometers. Chinese sport-utility vehicles assembled in Mexico went on sale this week in Naucalpan, State of México. The two models, manufactured in Mexico by Chinese state-owned JAC Motors in a joint venture with Giant Motors Latinoamérica, are completely assembled at a new factory in Ciudad… Read more »
It looks like this venture, initiated in early 2017, is picking up speed now.
JAC’s Mexican brand influence enters to a new level In March 2017, JAC passenger car completed its brand launch in Mexico and launched two S2 and S3 small SUV models. It officially entered the North American market and competed with mainstream global auto brands such as Nissan, Volkswagen and GM. In the first year of entering the Mexican market, JAC passenger cars realized an export of 1,541 vehicles. Through JAC’s excellent product quality and performance, and differentiated brand positioning, it has changed the negative impression of Mexican consumers on Chinese cars for a long time, and has been praised as… Read more »
JAC presented the first line of electric cars, assembled in Hidalgo
JAC presentó la primera línea de automóviles eléctricos, ensamblados en Hidalgo
China’s JAC motors, Mexican billionaire making ground in LatAm
Those being manufactured are the JAC SEI 2 and SEI 3. The former has a starting price of 259,000 pesos (US$14,551) and comes with a five year/100,000km guarantee.
By November, JAC intends to launch a fully equipped sedan, and a larger 7-passenger SUV is expected shortly thereafter.
The company intends to have 10 sales points up and running by the end of the year. So far, approximately 350 SUVs have been sold, in 2017, local paper El Universal reported.
Giant Motors is owned by Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu.
Mexico’s Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo holds the model of a car during a news conference in Mexico City to announce a new plant for JAC Motors Mexico has announced a 4.4 billion peso (US$212 million) deal to assemble Chinese cars in the central state of Hidalgo, amid calls for the country to diversify economic ties as tensions have risen with the US, its largest trade partner. Hidalgo Governor Omar Fayad announced the deal between Mexico’s Giant Motors Latinoamerica and Chinese state-owned automaker JAC Motors at a news conference in the capital. The plant in Ciudad Sahagun, about 65km northeast of… Read more »