SAIC Volkswagen

SAIC Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd.
legal form	Co. Ltd.
founding	October 10, 1984
Seat	Shanghai , People's Republic of China
Number of employees	27,344 (April 2013)
Branch	Automotive industry
Website	www.csvw.com

The SAIC-Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd. , formerly Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd. (abbreviated SVW , Chinese 上汽大众汽车 ) is an automobile manufacturer based in Anting , Shanghai , which was initially founded in 1984 as an independent company by SAIC Motor . In 1988 the company developed into an official joint venture with the two companies Volkswagen AG and Volkswagen (China) Investment . The company manufactures vehicles of the Volkswagen and Škoda brands .

Company development and model development

The company's production began in 1984 with the Volkswagen Santana , which was initially imported as a CKD kit for assembly. The model was available both as a notchback and in the estate version, which is more popular with the police and authorities. Own production began about a year after the model was launched on the Chinese market. With more than 3,000,000 units produced and a number of model updates, the Santana has developed into one of the most popular car models in the People's Republic of China , and a successor model is now in production. It was not until 1996 that Volkswagen tried to take the first step to replace the outdated model with the Volkswagen Passat . However, due to the lower price and a much more extensive range of special equipment, the Passat could not survive and remained on offer as a parallel model.

Shanghai Volkswagen July 2013

In the new millennium, the Volkswagen Polo should then increase sales, especially in urban areas that have major traffic problems. But due to its high price for China, it initially “flopped”. The facelift version, however, brought the hoped-for success, which was mainly due to the new sports models such as the CrossPolo and the Polo Sporty. Last but not least, these replaced the Volkswagen Gol , which was popular up to that time and existed from 2002 to 2007. In November 2006 the Škoda Octavia was presented. It went into production in March 2007. From around 2008 there was the Volkswagen Passat Lingyu , which is supposed to win over the upper class as potential customers. But the Volkswagen Touran has also been very successful in China since then. The small Škoda Fabia , which is more of a competitor to the Mini , is less popular . The two notchback models Volkswagen Lavida and Volkswagen Passat Variant , which are intended to close the gap between the Volkswagen Jetta and Volkswagen Sagitar models manufactured by FAW-Volkswagen , are also reserved for the Chinese market . Until the appearance of the Volkswagen Teramont, the only VW SUV from China was the Volkswagen Tiguan , which is produced here in a long version. Another innovation for China is the generation change of the Polo, the Sporty version of which will be replaced at the turn of the year. The notchback Jingqu should follow in the summer of next year.

Formation of a new company division for electric car construction with its own brand

The electric car models that SAIC Volkswagen intends to produce in the future as part of its activities are to appear under its own brand called Tantos . The Volkswagen Lavida blue-e-motion is to be one of the first models to appear under the new brand name. The new brand name is approved by the Chinese government.

Shareholders

Model overview


		1980s						1990s										2000s										2010s
		4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th
	Small car																								Fabia Jingrui ¹ since 2007
	Compact class																														Rapid Xinrui ³ since 2013
	Lower middle class																							Octavia Xuanliang ¹ 2006 to 2009			Octavia Mingrui ¹ since 2009
	upper middle class																					Superb Haorui ^{1 from} 2004 to 2009					Superb Haorui ¹ since 2009
	Small car																	Polo Jingqing ¹ 2000 to 2005					Polo Sporty ¹ 2005 to 2010					Polo Sporty ^{1 & 3} since 2010
	Small car																				Gol ¹ 2003 to 2008							Polo GTI ^{1 & 3} since 2010
	Mini SUV																						CrossPolo ¹ 2005 to 2011						CrossPolo ¹ since 2011
	Lower middle class																									Lavida ¹ / Lavida Sport ¹ 2008 to 2012				Lavida ¹ since 2012
																										Lavida ¹ / Lavida Sport ¹ 2008 to 2012					Gran Lavida ¹ from 2013
																		Polo Jingqu ¹ 2000 to 2005					Polo Jingqu ¹ 2005 to 2012							Polo Jingqu ¹ since 2012
	Middle class	Santana ¹ 1984 to 2012																													Santana ^{1 & 3} since 2013
		Santana Variant ¹ 1984 to 1995											Santana 2000 ¹ 1995 to 2004									Santana 3000 ¹ 2004 to 2008				Santana Vista ² 2008 to 2013
														Passat ¹ / Passat V6 ¹ 1996 to 2005									Passat Lingyu ¹ 2005 to 2009				Passat Variant ² since 2009
														Passat ¹ / Passat V6 ¹ 1996 to 2005									Passat Lingyu ¹ 2005 to 2009						Passat ^{1 & 2} / Passat V6 ^{1 & 2} since 2011
	Upper class																																	Phideon since 2016
	Compact van																					Touran ¹ 2004 to 2008				Touran ^{1 from} 2008 to 2011			Touran ¹ / Touran 2013 ¹ since 2011
Sport utility vehicle																											Tiguan ¹ 2010 to 2013

Note: The superscript numbers ¹ , ² and ³ indicate the production location according to the table below.

Production sites

plant	region	Workers	Products	Capacity / year	opening	Identifier
Anting	Shanghai	19,171	Engines and complete vehicles	450,000	1984	1
Jiading	Shanghai	1,664	transmission		1985
Loutang	Shanghai	770	Engines		2005
Nanjing	Jiangsu	4,529	Complete vehicles	60,000	2008	2
Yizheng	Jiangsu	2,350	Complete vehicles	300,000	2012	3

statistics

SAIC Volkswagen manufactured 221,524 cars in 2000. In the following years there were 230,281, 278,885, 405,252 and 347,531. The website www.carsalesbase.com lists the annual registration numbers of VW vehicles in China, which, however, include vehicles from FAW-Volkswagen .

The registration numbers of Škoda vehicles in China rose from 31,802 in 2007 to a previous high of 352,000 in 2018. In 2019, 278,378 new vehicles of this brand were registered in China.

Web links

Commons : SAIC Volkswagen - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Volkswagen Gol China Sales Figures (accessed August 2, 2020)
^ Erik van Ingen Schenau: Catalog of the present Chinese motor production. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Edition 2008. (English)
↑ Marek Brzeżański, Robert Jabłoński: Cars of the World. 2008 · 2009. Moto Media Print, Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki 2008, ISBN 978-83-61604-12-9 , p. 381.
↑ Susan Zhao: Shanghai-VW spawns electric sub brand to rival FAW-VW's Kai Li electric sub brand China Car Times online, September 21, 2011 (English)
↑ Wacław Pozar (General): World Cars. 2006 · 2007. Media Connection, Warsaw 2006, ISSN 1734-2945 , p. 412.
↑ Volkswagen China Sales Figures (accessed August 2, 2020)
↑ Skoda China Sales Figures (accessed on August 2, 2020)

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[1] Volkswagen Gol China Sales Figures (accessed August 2, 2020)

[2] Erik van Ingen Schenau: Catalog of the present Chinese motor production. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Edition 2008. (English)

[3] Marek Brzeżański, Robert Jabłoński: Cars of the World. 2008 · 2009. Moto Media Print, Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki 2008, ISBN 978-83-61604-12-9 , p. 381.

[4] Susan Zhao: Shanghai-VW spawns electric sub brand to rival FAW-VW's Kai Li electric sub brand China Car Times online, September 21, 2011 (English)

[5] Wacław Pozar (General): World Cars. 2006 · 2007. Media Connection, Warsaw 2006, ISSN 1734-2945 , p. 412.

[6] Volkswagen China Sales Figures (accessed August 2, 2020)

[7] Skoda China Sales Figures (accessed on August 2, 2020)