- Stronger customer orientation and dealer performance
- Focus on high volume and high growth segments with three key launches by 2020: All-New Opel Corsa, Vivaro and Mokka X successor
- Ensure CO2 compliance with state-of-the-art technology: four electrified vehicles by end of 2020; 100 percent electrification by 2024; further improved combustion engines
Opel is continuing to execute the PACE! plan product
offensive to meet customer needs and ensure compliance with the drastic
Europe-wide CO2 guidelines which become effective in 2020.
The future portfolio will ensure a sustainable, successful future for
both the company and its dealer network. From early 2019 to the end of
2020, the company will launch eight all-new or refreshed models,
investing primarily in high-volume and profitable segments. By then,
Opel will be offering one of the newest portfolios of all volume
manufacturers.
With its PACE! plan, Opel has clearly committed to bringing at least
one all-new model onto the market every year. In 2019 alone, Opel will
launch the new generation of the bestselling Corsa and the successor to
the successful Vivaro as LCV and passenger car variants. Additional
variants and equipment versions of the Combo will also be on sale, thus
significantly renewing the LCV portfolio.
The successor to the hugely
popular Opel Mokka X will follow in 2020 and will play a pivotal role
for the strategy to expand the proportion of the company’s SUV sales
from 25 to 40 percent by 2021.
“Opel goes electric” was one of the commitments made by the company
in November 2017 as part of its PACE! plan. Order books for both the
all-electric new five-seater Corsa and the Grandland X PHEV which will
be produced in Eisenach will be open by the summer of 2019. By the end
of 2020, Opel will have a total of four electrified models on offer,
providing a lot of driving pleasure and transforming e-car demand from
niche to volume. By 2024, there will be an electrified version of every
Opel model. Opel will make highly interesting offers, both technically
and economically, and will democratise electro-mobility while further
improving its combustion engines.
In order to contribute to the CO2 compliance and to focus
on high volume segments, the Opel ADAM, KARL and Cascada will not be
replaced after the end of their life cycles, but will remain on sale
until the end of 2019. With the new portfolio, Opel will continue to
cover around 80 percent of the mainstream market volume in 2020 – with
significantly higher efficiency and customer-orientation while
simultaneously reducing complexity.
“In a context of drastic CO2 norms, it’s our
responsibility to shape a sustainable future for our company and our
dealers with a highly competitive portfolio for passenger and light
commercial vehicles. Opel will offer fun to drive and emotionally
designed models including highly competitive light commercial vehicles
such as the new Combo and Vivaro. The customers will benefit from the
broad introduction of innovative technologies and affordable
electrification,” said Opel CEO Michael Lohscheller. “The most recent
awards – like the IVOTY 2019 for our Combo – demonstrate that we are on
the right path.”
The German manufacturer with almost 120 years of automotive tradition
is leveraging Groupe PSA platforms and innovative propulsion
technologies for all new models. Opel has impressively demonstrated its
efficiency this year: the entire portfolio was and is fully available
from dealers in time for the transition to the new Worldwide Harmonized
Light Vehicles Test Procedure standard (WLTP). Moreover, Opel is already
fully ready for the new Euro 6d-TEMP emissions standard and offers 127
passenger car models that meet the requirements which will come into
effect for all new registrations in September 2019. “Our commitment to
Euro 6d-TEMP is part of our strategy to become a leader in the reduction
of vehicle emissions and a key pillar of our customer-centric approach.
Whoever buys a new Opel now must not fear a city driving ban from
today’s perspective,” said Lohscheller.
