The production of the Opel Astra has been cut by six in 15 years
- The Opel Astra is a C-segment sedan that is the successor of the Opel Kadett, which dates back to 1962, and for which the German plant in Bochum was built. The Astra arrived in 1991 and used the name of the Opel Kadettproduced by Vauxhall, the other European subsidiary of the GM group. The Opel Kadett had gone through five different generations.
- The Astra also had five different generations, the current having been launched in 2015. This is also the last Astra based on GM platform, since the takeover of Opel / Vauxhall by the French group PSA and as the entire future launch program of Opel was completely restructured.
- Thus, the Corsa launched in 2019 is based on the PSA platform and engines also used by the Peugeot 208 launched the same year. The future Astra launched in 2021 will take over the platform and engines of the Peugeot new 308, which will be renewed the same year.
- This next generation of Astra will attempt to end fifteen years of continuous decline, with a production volume decreasing from over 600,000 units annually in 2005 to 300,000 in 2016, 200,000 in 2018 and less than 100,000 in 2020.
- Intended to be the most dangerous competitor of the VW Golf, it has become a very marginal sedan, competed both by rivals with greater notoriety and by SUVs which take a lot of customers from sedans. Finally, the Zafira compact MPV (1999-2019) has taken a good part of the Astra customers, and even if today the Zafira is stopped, the Astra decline continues. It will therefore not be easy for the PSA group to relaunch and sustain the Opel Astra.
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