Production of the VW Polo in Navarra will end in 2024

The death of the electric car, although it has been welcomed with jubilation at the Volkswagen Group factories in Spain – it is official that Landaben (Navarra) and Martorell (Barcelona) will receive the production of electric urban models in the middle of the decade – means that the combustion engines of electric cars that are assembled there must also make way for their emission-free successors.

This unavoidable
assumes that the Volkswagen Polo ends its history in the northern factory, which started in 1984 and would close its European chapter after four decades. However, it is expected that the subcompact will continue to be produced at the consortium’s factory in Kariega (South Africa).

Today, Landaben builds three models based on the same platform: the T-Cross SUV, the Taigo SUV coupe and the Polo subcompact, which, despite having more seniority than the other two, receives fewer orders and leaves fewer margins. then brand its chain brothers, which started production in 2018 and 2021 respectively.

Of the 290,000 units Landaben is expected to produce in 2022 – a 31% increase from 2021 – the T-Cross and Taigo are estimated to account for approximately 50% and 30% respectively.
while the Polo is reduced to the remaining 20%.

It was therefore expected that since the arrival of the Taigo, which coincided with the restyling of the Polo, the subcompact would receive more and more residual production. The final date of the end has not yet been confirmed by the company, but ‘La Tribuna de Automoción’ dates 2024 as the last year of the Polo, marking exactly 40 years since production began.

The Volkswagen Group’s industrial planning rounds are held at the end of each year and typically determine which factories get which models and how the manufacturer’s money is distributed. A year ago it was stipulated that the Spanish factories would have zero-emission urban models “linked to the allocation of public funds”.

Round number 71 corresponds to 2022 and the end of the Polo will be completed in PR 72, at the end of 2023. Then the price will be announced of the electric models they will receive, expected to be compact SUVs from the Volkswagen and Skoda brands, while Martorell who gets from Cupra.

Source: La Verdad

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