The Opel Vivaro will be renewed on a PSA platform in 2019
- PSA will not have waited until 2024 to replace the Opel Vivaro, currently on a Renault Trafic base, since a new generation Vivaro, based on the Citroën Jumpy and Peugeot Expert, is announced for 2019. The new Opel Vivaro EMP2 platform will be launched just five years after the launch of the previous generation, which is very short for a utility vehicle. So we are witnessing a game of musical chairs in LCV that has transformed the Fiat Scudo on a PSA base to a Talento on a Renault base, and Opel Vivaro based on Renault to a Vivaro based on PSA. The Opel Movano will remain the only Opel utility vehicle to be based on a Renault model (Master) but it is not sure that this situation will last for many years. The new generation of Movano could be derived from the Citroën Jumper and Peugeot Boxer, thus from the Fiat Ducato.
- At the same time, PSA announces that the capacity of the Luton plant (100,000 units per year) will be better utilized (72,000 units produced in 2017) by adding Citroen Jumpy and Peugeot Expert (13,000 sales in the United Kingdom in 2017), which will relieve the Valenciennes plant which, according to PSA, will reach its saturation level in 2020 if the LCV market continues to grow at the same rate as in recent years.
- For PSA, this means finding additional capacity to continue to benefit from the growth of the LCV market in Europe. PSA sold 476,500 LCVs in 2017, for a market share of 23% of LCV sales.
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