Vauxhall boss, Tim Tozer, has resigned from his position as Managing Director, effective immediately, reports Autocar.
Tozer’s departure is an abrupt one, as he was recently on hand to represent Vauxhall at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show to help launch the 2016 Opel-Vauxhall Astra.
Tozer was appointed to the position in February of 2014, and has reportedly left the role to “pursue his career outside of General Motors.” His replacement will be Rory Harvey, who previously headed the Chevrolet brand in the UK. Harvey will, by consequence, leave his role as Opel Executive Director of Sales for Opel Europe.
At the time, the only additional information known on Tozer’s resignation is it does not have anything to do with the current-ongoing Volkswagen scandal, according to Vauxhall.
Rory will begin his new role on September 29.
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“At the time, the only additional information known on Tozer’s resignation is it does not have anything to do with the current-ongoing Volkswagen scandal, according to Vauxhall.”
Uh-huh. Strange — Autoblog reports that BMW and Mercedes deny pulling off this trick on their diesel cars. Whereas Opel hasn’t. Or have they?
Tozer was a non event when he worked at Mazda, his time at Vauxhall was equally underwhelming, nicknamed Tim Tosser by dealers! Rory Harvey has been around GM Europe for a while but so far has been a bit of a “non person”, perhaps this is his chance to shine – lets hope so. The rumour mill is that Tozer was offered a job with a competitor while at Frankfurt IAA. I doubt Vauxhall-Opel will be implicated in the same scandal as VW, if they are it would also implicate Fiat, Lancia & Alfa Romeo as most of the diesels were jointly developed. All those who have been saying that GM Europe should follow the VAG business model – thank the Lord they didn’t, VAG deserve all they get from this scandal, perhaps for us in the UK we won’t have to suffer their pretentious, pompous, self congratulatory TV advertising anymore.