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Opel’s European sales highest in four years

By Matt Brogan |

New registrations of Opel cars hit their highest level in four years in 2009 as government-backed scrapping incentives bolstered a floundering European auto industry.

The German government paid owners €2,500 (AU$4,000) to scrap cars that were at least nine years old if they replaced them with a new car.

New registrations of Opel cars in Germany rose 31 per cent (or approximately 339,000 units) in 2009, boosting the company’s market share in the country to about 8.9 per cent.

The news comes as Opel readies a €3.3 billion (AU$5.28 billion) overhaul that will see it cut 8,300 of its 50,000 jobs and seek state aid from countries with Opel plants including Germany, Britain, Spain and Poland.


 
  • Seo

    SAAB lives on even if they shut.

    Lots of SAAB in that OPEL sedan pictured.

    • Matthew

      Dont you mean the Saab 9-5 has alot of Opel in it?

  • Valet Dabess

    they should bring that opel to austrralia, and put a hsv bodykit on it. not an e2 series bodykit either

    • Joker

      It doesn’t even need a HSV body kit. Leave it as it is and give me the wagon ;)
      lol..spell check recommended picked up HSV as an error and suggested HIV instead XD

      • Valet Dabess

        hahahahahaha

    • jon

      Agree leave it alone, and it will still be the best thing to ever come out of Holden/HSV

      • Callous Aussie

        So tell me the specs for the car please Jon? Engine capacity , transmission , which end drives it, suspension specs . I am gathering by that extraodinary comment you know all about this vehicle.

        • Cupid Stunt

          You don’t need Jon to tell you the choices go look at vauxhall.co.uk.
          Think you’ll find them FWD and 4WD with a range of engines from 1.6? to 2.8 petrol and 2.0 diesels.
          Yep they are good and outselling the Mondeo in the UK.

          HYN to all

  • filippo

    I’d love the Opel range to be released under its own badge. Holden’s experiment showed that people aren’t willing to pay a premuim for a budget badge.

    • Whatever

      I totally agree. Holden is budget, just like its Daewoo counterpart; which is another experiment that failed; so why not fool Australian consumers, ditch Daewoo brand in Oz, sell Daewoo’s as Holden’s (Barina, Viva, Epica, Captiva, Cruze), the list goes on; and then all is good. Silly Australian consumers buy Holwoo’s thinking they are getting a good deal, when really they are just buying crap.

      I hope that Opel comes to Australia as an independent brand and blows Holden out of the water, as the Cruze really is no match for the 2010 Opel Astra

  • dan

    Now thats a nice looking car!!!