Opel will get Volt before Chev in Europe
September 15, 2008 by George Skentzos
It has been revealed that General Motors will debut its new plug-in electric Volt in European markets under the guise of Opel before the Chevrolet variant appears.
General Motor’s wants Opel/Vauxhall to appear as the technological flagship among the European markets, driving the decision to release a variant of the Volt under the brand.
“We are trying to position Opel toward the upper side of the high-volume segments and having the Volt technology will give Opel a competitive edge,” an insider told Automotive News Europe.
General Motors plans to release the production Chevrolet Volt onto the US market by late 2010, however the European Volt will resemble something more along the lines of the Flextreme concept first shown in Frankfurt in 2007.
The first models to reach Europe will be manufactured in Detroit, although GM has plans to produce the car locally to meet forecast demand.
“One day the Volt will be built in Europe, it is only a question of when,” GM Europe President Carl Peter Forster
Both the Volt and Flextreme cars feature GM’s extended-range electric-vehicle (E-REV) powertrain, which mates an electric motor and lithium-ion battery pack to a small combustion engine.
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Makes sense, chevrolet over there are simply rebadged daewoo’s and a car like the volt would simply be wasted on a rubbish badge. Which is why it amuses me no end to see lots of Commodore SS utes with chevrolet badges on them, says a lot about the pride holden drivers have in their cars that they’d rather rebadge it with a thinly veiled daewoo badge.
The Chevy name is Australia holds alot of street cred because of the Corvette and the Chevy V8’s
^^ That doesn’t really make sense seeing how the corvette isn’t sold here. By that logic Ford should be an awesome badge to have on your car because of the Ford GT. Chevy V8’s well they are famous, but not exactly sophisticated. But I can see how people maybe would idolise that. But I still think its sad to rebadge your holden as a chevrolet, I mean Holden is not a bad brand, and its australian, so be proud, I reckon. Particularly because they are not fooling anyone, it’d be like a beige camry with a WRX bonnet scoop on it.
if the volt came here as a holden unchenged i would put chevy badges on it. manily so no recognition goes to holden which should have been pushing to manufacture the delta platform