Inovev predicts 50 000 Grandland X sales per year
- The Opel and Vauxhall brands, newly integrated into the French PSA group, unveiled the new SUV Grandland X (C segment), located above the Mokka X (B segment) and Crossland X (B segment), the Grandland being the replacement of the Opel Antara which began production in 2006 and stopped in 2016, with only 2,000 sales in Europe.
- While the Antara was a pure GM product made in Korea by GM Korea (formerly Daewoo), the new Grandland X is based on the PSA EMP2 platform and will have the PSA engine, used notably by the Peugeot 3008. The Grandland X will even be produced on the same site as the 3008 (Sochaux - France) as of Spring 2018.
- The Grandland X is the second Opel-Vauxhall model to be built on a PSA platform, the Crossland X having been the first (PF1 platform and PSA engines). The next one will likely be in 2018,with the future Combo, which will use the same platform and engines as the future Citroën Berlingo and Peugeot Partner. Ultimately, the entire Opel-Vauxhall range will be PSA based. Inovev expects 50,000 sales of the Grandland X per year from 2019. If sales of this model exceed 50,000 units/year, the Sochaux plant (400,000 units) should reach full capacity. Indeed, the plant has reached 325,000 units produced in 2016, and in 2017 the ramp up of the 3008 and the restyled version of the 308 is expected to increase volumes produced.
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