“The established commercial success of the Peugeot 5008 and the prospect of ramping up the future Citroën C5 Aircross will generate production volumes beyond the production capacity of the Rennes site by 2019/2020,” says the manufacturer. car in a statement Wednesday.
Total volumes would be in the order of more than 200,000 vehicles per year as of 2019. The La Janais site will adjust its organization to ensure an annual volume of approximately 150,000 vehicles per year and will transfer the excess portion of the 5008 to Sochaux.
The strong sales of the Citroën C5 Aircross in China prompted management to offer the model on the European market, says one. The La Janais site, near Rennes, where the 508, the C5 and the Citroën E-Mehari are already produced, employs 2,200 people and a thousand temporary workers.
The automaker wants “to guarantee an excellent level of supply of the commercial networks by a better industrial flexibility allowing reasonable customer delivery times.”
In 2017, more than 90,000 Peugeot 5008 were produced on the Breton site, says PSA.