Opel will return to Russia
- The former European subsidiaries of the American group General-Motors, Opel and Vauxhall, were acquired by the French group PSA in the summer of 2017. In 2015, while still part of the GM group, Opel and Vauxhall withdrew from the Russian market following the American manufacturer's decision to stop sales of all GM group brands there.
- Opel sold nearly 700,000 cars in Russia between 2005 and 2015, which corresponds roughly to the volume of the brand's current fleet in that country, with the peak sales reached in 2008, with 102,000 sales.
- The PSA group, owner of the Opel brand since 2017, considers that these 700,000 cars will have to be replaced in the coming years, and that it is therefore appropriate to re-enter this market in order to try to capture most of these replacements and attract another segment of Russian customers who have never bought Opel models before.
- The new models on the Russian market at the end of 2019 will be the Grandland (C segment SUV ), Vivaro (N1-2 segment LCV ) and Zafira Life (new name of the PC version of Vivaro ), all of PSA origin.
- Other Opel PSA models will be added in the future, but the current GM models (Corsa, Astra, Insignia) will not be available on the Russian market. The Grandland sold in Russia will be manufactured in Germany (in the Eisenach plant), while the Vivaro and Zafira Life will be produced in Russia, in the PSA-Mitsubishi plant in Kaluga.
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