30.4.2019 Rüsselsheim. The Offensive by Opel in the segment of light commercial vehicles attacks: In the first quarter of 2019, the rüsselsheim car maker sold worldwide nearly 33,000 light commercial vehicles (LCV) and 35 percent more than in the same period last year.
The market share for new car registrations in Europe (E30) climbed 0.6 percentage points to 4.7 percent. In the business plan PACE! Opel has set a target to increase its LCV sales in 2020 to 25 percent.
The customers are both significantly more Movano (+18%), as well as more Vivaro (+33%) to have asked than in the previous year. The strongest growth driver, the new Opel Combo Cargo. The “International Van of the Year 2019” was sold in the first three months of the year, almost 6,900 Times in the commercial vehicle variant, so the sales jumped compared with the predecessor model in the first quarter of 2018 by an impressive 68 percent.
“In the LCV business, we are growing on a broad Front. All of our models are more sought after than in the previous year, and we have increased the market share almost everywhere in Europe. This shows that our measures are effective. We have strengthened the Marketing and in the meantime, all retailers have commercial vehicles in the Showrooms,“ said Xavier Duchemin, managing Director of Sales, Aftersales and Marketing.
Order intake – the Basis for future sales – has improved considerably in recent months. “The gratifying order backlog promises that 2019 will be a good year,” said Duchemin. For even more back-wind the all-new Vivaro, which comes this year on the market, and from 2020 in electric variant will be offered.
Successful commercial vehicle Offensive by Opel (photo: Opel Automobile GmbH)
