See also: List of Spanish cars Present Spanish brands GTA Spano Hurtan IFR Aspid SEAT A SEAT 1400, the first model produced by the Spanish company Later on, in the 1980s the Spanish automotive flagship, SEAT, was sold to the Volkswagen group, but by then the manufacturing cluster had already been consolidated and other international manufacturers were already producing in Spain. More than 794,000 of them were made between 19, and if at the beginning of this period it was the first car for many Spanish working-class families, at its end it was the first second one for many more. The icon of the time was the SEAT 600 car, produced by the Spanish company SEAT. This growth rate had no equal in the world. In the years from 1958 to 1972 the sector grew at a yearly compound rate of 21.7% in 1946 there were 72,000 private cars in Spain, in 1966 there were 1 million. Things started to change for the Spanish car industry in the 1960s when an industrial policy was launched with measures which contributed the Spanish miracle. In the mid 1940s, a number of home-grown companies started to emerge, led by Enasa, a state-owned conglomerate built around the remains of Hispano-Suiza, with brands like Pegaso or Sava. The devastation of the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939) interrupted this development, and the decade of economic isolation that followed made it very difficult for it to resume. By 1936, the industry had reached a significant volume, and was in continuous growth and modernisation. Foreign makers started to set up local assembly plants supplied with imported parts in the 1920s, with Ford Motor Ibérica opening its Cádiz premises in 1920 and General Motors Peninsular in Málaga in 1927. Historical development 1929 Hispano-Suiza T49Įarly Spanish manufacturers included the well known luxury car manufacturer Hispano-Suiza, originally founded as "La Cuadra" in 1898, and smaller companies such as Elizalde and Ricart. The main manufacturers established in the country are Mercedes-Benz Group AG (manufacturing plant in Vitoria), Ford (its plant located in Almussafes is Ford's biggest in Europe), Stellantis (at Villaverde in Madrid, Figueruelas and Vigo), Renault (with plants in Palencia and Valladolid as well as a transmission plant in Seville), SEAT ( Martorell), Volkswagen ( Pamplona). More than two million car engines are manufactured in Spain every year. which are supported by a thriving local car components industry, including rapidly growing Spanish multinationals such as Gestamp Automoción and Grupo Antolin. In all, there are 13 car factories located in Spain. In 2016, the automotive industry was generating 8.7 percent of Spain's gross domestic product, employing about nine percent of workers in the manufacturing industry. During the first half of 2016, with exports valued over 24 billion euros over that period, the automotive industry accounted for 18.9% of the total Spanish exports. The forecast as of 2016 was to produce a total of 2.8 million vehicles from which about 80% is for export. In 2015 Spain produced 2.7 million cars which made it the 8th largest automobile producer country in the world and the 2nd largest car manufacturer in Europe after Germany. Overview of the automotive industry in Spain The historic premises of SEAT in Zona Franca (Barcelona) built in the 1950s
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