Audi have announced that they have started assembly of the Q5 subcompact SUV at their Aurangabad plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra. They eventually plan to pump out over 1,500 units from their assembly line each year.
The SUV will be the third model Audi are producing in India after the A4 and the A6, increasing vehicle production capacity this year to 2,400 units compared to the 732 vehicles they sold the year before. As it stands Audi have produced a total of 2,000 vehicles since they first started in September 2007 and are planning to reach a production level of 6,000 units by 2015.
“The production of the Q5 is part of our long-term growth strategy in India. The Indian market for automobiles will grow very rapidly, and the Q5 is the right automobile at the right time,” says Frank Dreves, Audi Board Member for Production. Apart from the standard locally built models, Audi also offers its Indian customers the Audi A8, Q7, TT along with the R8.
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baddddd
will we still be gettin german made models?
Bolehland again, an ultimate loser, AP is the ruler of the day.
Well,then the citizen of Bolehland should be consider as ultimate super loser too.Isn’t that right?
If we have AP,then our closest neighbour have COE.
Wow,see more alphabet right,hahah.
don’t take it so serious.
COE is an open tender, any registered company can bid for the number of cars they want to bring in. You don’t have to be connected or previlaged like our AP.
Man,don’t take it so serious!
Maybe it is a way to reduce waiting time for the Q5. All people over the world who order Q5 have to wait a year for the vehicle ready to be delivered.
agreed. Wondering if the Q5s would be coming from India now.
No loss to this T&H market. Let the Indians gain.
OMG! AUDI from INDIA? I can’t imagine how it’ll be then….look at our PROTON SAGA, also JAPANESE CAR manufactured in BOLEHLAND! 20+cents/km for 1.3L P. SAGA! OMG!
Now even worst…from INDIA?! I was considering an A5/A6 soon…awaiting long for the NEW A6 2011 or A5….but if from INDIA, I’ll go for BMW 5 series…
Alwin,
Don’t worry about the quality of cars made in India. In the financial year 2009-2010 about 441,710 cars were exported from India.
May be this article in WSJ will enlighten you. If not now in next 5 years you will have to buy an Indian made car. BTW about the BMW 5 series,it is also being assembled in Chennai, India.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111704575354853980451636.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#articleTabs%3Darticle
Are you thinking that folks in India will be eager to buyup Malaysian made Protons?
dont u know that BMW has already started assembling the 5-series in India.
Wait till TATA launches the Indica-Vista in India
because unlike for Proton the Indian government did not forced people to buy Tata vehicles like in case of the taxi operators in malaysia Tata is no.3 in the Indian market after suzuki and hyundai.