Audi to come as indigenous assembled from Mid-2010. The move includes converting major cars as locally assembled and there would not be CBUs. The units will be Completely Knocked and would be out from Aurangabad facility, said its MD. The process will certainly make feasible ends for the uprising market. soon other models will follow suit, he added. The Q5 is to be started by mid-2010.
The range of beeline from Audi includes Audi A4, A6, A8, Q5, the new version Audi Q7, the Audi TT Coupe and the premium sports car Audi R8. Audi had a good stint with A4, A6, Q7 and Q5 in India by selling 1600 units. A4 and A6 are delivered from the Aurangabad plant under Completely Knocked Down units. The unit feeds the demand in proportion as it has the capacity of 750 cars were produced in the last year.
In another six years, said the MD, the annual production will steep to 5300 cars. This is in proportion to the overall increase in the luxury car market- from 2000 units in 2006 to 7000 units till now. This may hike to 10000 in this year, it is expected. The methodology to make the cars as CKD in the domestic market is to reduce the cost of these luxury units, thereby boosting the sale.
The base model of Audi Q5 costs Rs38 lakhs but the price of the CKD version is yet to be let known. Simultaneously the number of dealerships too would be increased to 17 from the current 8 in the cities of Kolkata, Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, Chennai, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Nagpur and Coimbatore.