The future Opel Movano will be produced at the PSA site in Gliwice
- While the Opel Movano, based on the Renault Master, has just been restyled, mainly on the front part of the vehicle, the PSA group has announced that its replacement, which will be launched in two years' time, in 2021, will be based on the Peugeot Boxer and Citroën Jumper (and therefore on the Fiat Ducato) and that it will be produced not at the Italian Sevelsud site in Val di Sangro (whose capacities are saturated), but at the PSA Polish site in Gliwice.
- Today, the Gliwice site manufactures a large part of the Opel Astra for the European market, but it could therefore gradually become a commercial vehicle production site, like the British Luton plant that manufactures the Opel Vivaro. This could explain why the PSA group had announced the transfer of part of the Opel Astra from the Ellesmere Port site in the United Kingdom to the German site in Rüsselsheim and not to the Polish site in Gliwice.
- Given that the PSA group announces a production capacity of 100,000 commercial vehicles per year in Gliwice from 2021, and that the Opel Movano has never exceeded 25,000 sales per year during its long career, it is likely that the PSA group intends to produce part of the Citroën Jumper and Peugeot Boxer on this site, and perhaps also a Toyota version of these large SUVs, since the Toyota SUVs already on the European market, the ProAce (segment N1-2) and ProAce City (segment N1-1) are derived from PSA models. If this scenario is verified, the Opel Astra currently manufactured at the Gliwice site would have to be transferred to another site, probably to the German site in Rüsselsheim.
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