Eurostar Automobilwerk
47.02211944444415.480380555556Koordinaten: 47 ° 1 ' 19.63 " N, 15 ° 28' 49.37 " E The EUROSTAR automotive GesmbH & Co. KG is a former Austrian automobile manufacturer from Liebenau. The company was founded originally. Than a joint venture between the Chrysler Corporation with the Steyr -Daimler- Puch AG & Co. KG, in which both parties involved each have a 50 percent The factory site was right at the Walter P. Chrysler space between the main road B 73 and the driveway to the A2 south motorway. The total area of the site extended to 221 180 m².
Company History
In this began acting as a joint venture company Ed in March 1990. Ast & Co. Construction Company Ltd. and Universale Bau AG with the construction work. This took 19 months to complete, so that the workshops had been completed in September 1991. Then they started with the installation of plants, has been on which later mounted the Voyager and the slightly larger Grand Voyager. The series production has been added after the opening ceremony on April 29, 1992. The then- CEO Lee Iacocca, had held the opening speech.
After a successful launch began on 1 February 1993, a second layer of their work. In March 1995, already rolled out the 100,000 Chrysler Voyager from the tape. In September, followed by a generational change. New robots and increased automation should increase the processing quality of the vehicles. The following year, the company now also started mass production of right-hand drive vehicles. Thus the work was no longer meant only for the supply for the European market, as originally intended. From now on the Voyager as well as the greater Grand Voyager on the world market were offered. In - badge engineering, the models were made for some markets under the name Chrysler Caravan and Chrysler Grand Caravan. The vehicles have been exported to almost all countries, the concentration being focused on Chrysler's main hubs such as Australia, South Africa, Japan, China and Russia. Around 55,000 vehicles have been assembled per year. In 1998, then decided DaimlerChrysler AG, in view of this Aufstrebens to buy up the work and incorporate it into the Group as one of its subsidiaries.
Before the turn of the millennium construction began on a plant expansion. The expansion took over a year and enlarged the work building an additional 7,000 m². The extension was necessary to allow the planned installation of diesel versions of the new Chrysler PT Cruiser. Approximately 600 new jobs were created by it. The Company invested a sum of 58 million euros for the expansion. At the same time, a conversion of the assembly line of the Voyagers took place to hang the new generation of the model here. The installation of the new Voyager started in January 2000. PT Cruisers, began in July 2001.
But came the Austrian mounting the PT Cruisers to the Group to be expensive, so you decided to convert in December to end this as quickly as possible. It flared up then to sell the plant discussions. The Assembly in Graz to 2,000 U.S. $ was more expensive than it would have been the case in Toluca, Mexico per vehicle. So you put a mounting for a year and about 50,000 units.
As the most promising negotiating partner for the sale to Magna International pointed out. The purchase agreement was signed at a shareholders' resolution in Auburn Hills by representatives of both sides on 29 February 2002. However, because of the contracted period, the PT Cruiser to assemble for 12 months in Graz plant the EUROSTAR, joined the sales contract Magna's only the 6th of July 2002, after the last vehicle was assembled. Since then include the former factory buildings of the EUROSTAR to today's vehicle technology MAGNA STEYR AG & Co. KG
Model Overview
The EUROSTAR car plant use within the vehicle identification number the factory code U.