Production numbers

[plh]

29,000 according to what I was told today. The US market will receive 1/3 of that number.

small bird told me they were targeting 50k annual with 30% of them BEV by MY2025. That is a big number considering the "original" Defender sold the most in 1997 at 39K units. Last few years of production they were sub 10K units annual.

 

[ChasingOurTrunks]

Thought I heard that Magna is building them. Lots cheaper to hire a factory than build a factory.

Correct - they took over a Mercedes factory in Hambach that was used to build the Smart Car. So, they had a pretty experienced workforce and a nearly state-of-the-art facility ready to go. The partnership with Magna on the design and construction side aligns as Magna and Mercedes do the G-Wagen. It would have been ego/pride over good business sense to not take advantage of the opportunity that the factory represented I think.