GM And PSA Scrap Another Vehicle Joint Program
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Along with General Motors divesting its shares in French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen comes the realization that plans for a low-emission compact vehicle program that was announced back when the not-so-strategic alliance was originally initiated, are no more. It would have been the next Opel Corsa and Citroen C3.
Instead, GM will develop a new architecture independent from PSA to support the Corsa, but won’t be ready to go for several years, some say as late as 2018.
GM and PSA also scrapped plans for a joint midsized sedan project previously. Out of the four initially announced projects, only two will continue forward, being a subcompact B-segment MPV (next Citroen C3 Picasso and Opel Meriva) and compact C-segment MPV which is expected to be the next Opel Zafira. And while nobody is going to fess this up, it could be because both companies have already committed the money to retool plants to manufacture these projects.
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“Out of the four initially announced projects, only two will continue forward”
True but there is a third (new) project: Opel and PSA will develop LCVs of the B segment based on a PSA platfrom.
Excellent. Yet another one of Lackerson’s hair-brained ideas is ditched. I can’t wait for ALL of them to be in the history books with his picture wearing a “dunce” hat right beside them.
Just out of interest, does anyone know when Vauxhall/Opel are likely to replace the ancient and somewhat inefficient Antara 4X4, or a replacement for the similarly archaic, fiat derived Corsa?
@Glen richards:
Antara will be replaced in 2015/2016. This car will be developed in cooperation with Buick. The European version will be mainly desigend and developed in Germany. So the next generation Antara will fit much more to European requirements than the current Chevy based Antara. There are rumors that this car will be built in Rüsselsheim, Germany.
“fiat derived Corsa”
What??? Fiat Grande Punto and Opel Corsa share the same common developed platform and that’s all. The rest of the car (despite some engines which will be replaced soon) is an Opel only development.
Opel Corsa will get its second facelift at the end of 2014 and will be replaced in 2018 as far as we know yet.
But: This 2014 facelift will change the style of the car completely. Corsa will get an Adam-inspired front and the Adam-interior. There are also a lot of new efficient and modern engines. So it will be a like a new car.