Automotive_Aralik_2018

Monthly automotive aftermarket magazine
BMW being ready for ‘worse
options’ in Brexit
BMW releases its Mini and Rolls
Royce factories in the U.K. will
halt production for maintenance
during the Brexit period next year
to avoid any supply repercussions
from the country's withdrawal from
the European Union.
There will be a 4-week stoppage
at the Mini plant from late March,
when Britain officially exits the EU,
and a two-week pause at the Rolls
Royce factory.
BMW's chief salesman, Pieter Nota,
says the German manufacturer
is hoping for a smooth Brexit but
adds "we are also getting prepared
for worse options."
The factory halts are not expected
to affect production targets. The
halt at the Mini plant in Oxford
is being moved forward from its
usual summer slot.
Speaking at the Paris auto show,
Nota said that's meant to avoid
any Brexit chaos and "to really
make sure that during that period
we don't have the need for, say,
massive flows of goods."
Asked if BMW could move
production out of the U.K. entirely,
Nota said: "That is certainly
not planned but of course the
circumstances need to remain
favorable."
Bursa prospers in automotive exports
parts, power train parts and
components, brake and clutch
parts and components, hydraulic
and pneumatic systems, suspension
systems, security systems, rubber
and plastic parts, chassis, frames
and parts, casting and forging,
electrical equipment and parts,
lighting systems, accumulator
batteries, seats etc.
The auto parts industry of Bursa has
developed rapidly as a consequence
of developments in the automotive
Almost two-thirds of the roughly
900,000 vehicles that Turkey is
expected to export to foreign
markets are assembled in Bursa.
Thousands of people work in giant
car factories that produce vehicles
for global companies like Renault
and Fiat to be sold on the growing
Turkish market or to be shipped to
Europe.
The car industry in Bursa is hugewith
Renault and Fiat vehicles
manufactured in factories to be sold
in Turkey or exported to Europe.
More recently, government officials
and businessmen have been trying
to promote Bursa as a tourist
destination.
The Turkish automotive and spare
parts industry is concentrated in the
Marmara Region, mainly in Bursa.
Two major car factories and two
“Organized Industrial Zones” are
located in Bursa.
The automotive supplier industry
of Bursa produces almost all types
of parts, components and spare
parts such as engines and engine
industry. The auto parts industry
with its large capacity, wide variety
of production and high standards,
supports automotive industry
production and the vehicles in
Bursa and also has ample potential
for exports. The automotive and
auto spare parts industry have
prospered dynamically in line with
ever increasing demand from
abroad .
18 December 2018