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Jorge Palacios

Correspondent, WardsAuto

Based in Madrid, Jorge writes about Spain's auto makers, suppliers and new-vehicle market.

Jorge’s Recent activity

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Spanish Dealers Struggle to Recover From COVID-19
May 21, 2020
Supply and demand in the European used-car market could take three years to regain its balance, as happened during the 2012 fiscal crisis, according to Sumauto, a provider of digital services for used-vehicle dealers.
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Auto Production in Spain Off to Rocky Restart
May 12, 2020
Unions representing workers at the Barcelona plant, which is operating at 25% of its 200,000-unit capacity, have not gotten clear answers about the factory’s future and have called for a supplier to strike.
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COVID-19 Paralyzes Spanish Automakers
Mar 18, 2020
COVID-19’s impact on supply chains and difficulties in protecting workers from infection have triggered plant closings and layoffs across Spain’s automotive industry.
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Ford Planning 400 Layoffs at Spanish Plant
Mar 11, 2020
The automaker plans to cut daily production at the Almussafes plant by 100 units, from 1,740 to 1,640. It also trimmed production by 100 units per day at the end of September.
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PSA Rolling Out Compact Peugeot Pickup
Feb 27, 2020
Designed to compete against compact pickups such as the Mitsubishi L200 and Toyota HiLux, the Peugeot Landtrek 2020 will be offered in cab chassis, single-cab and double-cab versions.
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Nissan Spain’s Barcelona Product Exodus Continues
Feb 12, 2020
Daimler reduced production of the X-Class pickup from 20,000 units in 2018 to only 8,000 in 2019 – or 15% of the 53,000 vehicles assembled at Barcelona, which has annual capacity of 200,000 units. X-Class builds will...
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