Automotive

Chinese cars are making great inroads on Portugal’s roads – quite literally with over 30,000 currently circulating. A few years ago, seeing a Chinese car in Portugal was like finding a [...]

Portugal’s Association of Manufacturers for the Automotive Industry (AFIA) has admitted that US tariffs on the sector could put pressure on manufacturers’ order books. And a representative of the [...]

Production of automobiles in Portuguese factories grew 32.6% in March, year-on-year, to 38,852 units, according to data from the Portuguese Automobile Association (ACAP), released this Tuesday. [...]

Portugal is to give Volkswagen Europa a €30 million offset, around 10% of the total €270 million that the car maker is investing at its Autoeuropa factory at Palmela. The money will be used to [...]

TMG Automotive, a Portuguese textile company that makes car seat and interior upholstery, is investing €43 million on a factory in Bostic, North Carolina, US, creating 125 jobs. Headquartered in [...]

Vanpro, a joint-venture between Faurecia and Adiente, is to close down leaving 475 people unemployed. The company, which has been supplying Autoeuropa for decades, has not been chosen by the VW [...]

China’s ambassador to China has announced “ideas” that Chinese car manufacturers could set up assembly line factories in Portugal. Chinese electric cars are widely seen as among the most [...]

Coindu, a Portuguese company that has produced upholstery for the automotive industry in Arcos de Valdevez near Viana do Castelo (now closed) and Joana near Vila Nova de Famalicão (Braga) has [...]

The French group Nexteam, which has a factory in Arcos de Valdevez in the Minho, has acquired the premises of failed car components company Coindu. Nexteam, which produces components for the [...]

Hundreds of million euros of incentives had to be provided to Volkswagen to convince the German manufacturer to produce its new electric low-cost vehicle at its Autoeuropa plant in Palmela. Under [...]