PSA Peugeot Citro?n to launch three-cylinder turbo in 2013
PSA Peugeot
In between rightaway and 2013, PSA Peugeot Citro?n plans to deposit ?175 million during the La Fran?aise de M?canique plant in Douvrin, in a Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, to hopefor for a prolongation of a new 3-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine.
A investment follows on from a Group’s decision to magnify the line-up of motor-fuel engines with a turbocharged chronicle of a 3-cylinder ofcourse aspirated motor-fuel engine now underneath growth.
Array production is scheduled to begin in early 2013, with an output of 320,000 units per year.
This brand-new engine version is formed upon a 3-cylinder 1.2-litre ofcourse aspirated engine, that will be manufactured during the Group’s Tr?mery plant in eastern France starting in early 2012.
La Fran?aise de M?canique now builds motor-fuel as well as diesel motor fuel powerplants for Peugeot and Citro?n Peugeot models, as good as a EP engine grown in partnership with a BMW Organisation.
With this investment, PSA Peugeot Citro?n has reliable the joining to progressing extensive engine prolongation operations in France.
Both a Nord-Pas-de-Calais segment and Pas-de-Calais departmental authorities are actively ancillary the project, that will await industrial development and mercantile growth in France’s second-largest automotive segment.
Commenting upon a investment, Philippe Varin remarkable: “By producing this brand-new engine during La Fran?aise de M?canique, you will be means to leverage world-class production imagination. As well as with the state-of-the-art environmental record, a brand-new powerplant will capacitate PSA Peugeot Citro?n to makefirm its care in low-carbon vehicles.”
Combined in 1969, La Fran?aise de M?canique is the 50-50 joint venture between PSA Peugeot Citro?n as well as Renault, with 3,400 employees. It’s machining as well as public lines furnish 6,200 engines per day. Outlay in 2009 totalled 1.3 million units, of that 942,000 were for PSA P eugeot Citro?n.
