The good old days in Nigeria's automobile manufacturing industry may have just come back as Stallion Motors launches Volkswagen Assembly Plant in Lagos.
Popular multinational automobile conglomerate, Stallion Group, has on Tuesday launched the first Nigerian made Volkswagen passenger and commercial vehicles assembled at its now brand new plant, located along the Mile 2-Okokomaiko axis of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg, operates 119 production plants in 20 European countries and a further eight countries in the Americas, Asia and Africa and sells its vehicles in 153 countries.
Stallion’s chairman, Mr Sunil Vaswani, said, “The Stallion Group had entered into a collaboration with the Volkswagen Group to assemble its vehicles in Nigeria, pursuant to the National Automotive Industrial Plan (NAIDP) announced by the federal government in October 2013.”
He said that Stallion is commencing the assembly of Volkswagen’s renowned products, including Passat, Jetta, CC and Amarok models.
“Stallion is the preferred partner for an impressive portfolio of iconic global automobile brands and the Nigeria exclusive distributor for the Volkswagen Group brands, including Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and Porsche.
"This is a great moment for Stallion, partnering with a world leading global brand like Volkswagen. We are immensely pleased to bring back the proud legacy of Nigeria’s automotive industry, the Volkswagen brand, that once was indigenously produced at the same premises”, Vaswani added.