Great Wall Motor’s ORA Funky Cat small family car – the soon to be named GWM ORA 03 - has clinched two titles as best full electric car and small family car in the latest Green NCAP category tests which help car buyers make environmentally conscious choices.
Ellesmere Port has become the UK’s first EV-only manufacturing plant and the first Stellantis plant globally dedicated to electric vehicles, following a £100 million investment to transform the plant for EV production.
The supervisory board of Opel/Vauxhall has appointed Xavier Duchemin as managing director of sales, aftersales and marketing and Frédéric Brunet as chief financial officer.
Vauxhall Motors and Opel Ireland have a new managing director from within the PSA Group following the departure of Rory Harvey.
Opel and Vauxhall could look towards PSA Group retailers to sell cars across Europe as the brand looks to a future of more lucrative sales and reduced pre-registration.
Northern Ireland-based Donnelly Group has welcomed Dave Sheeran as its new managing director.
A new-look senior management team at Opel and Vauxhall will present details of its plan to return to profitability by 2020 100 days after PSA Group finalised its acquisition of the two brands today.
New Opel/Vauxhall chief executive Michael Lohscheller has been charged with bringing the brands back into profit following the departure of Karl-Thomas Neumann.
GM’s £1.9bn sale of Vauxhall to PSA Group creates Europe’s second-biggest carmaker, but its four brands face challenges in the UK.
PSA Group and General Motors have announced their agreement which will see the French manufacturer acquire the Vauxhall and Opel brands.
PSA Group has pledged to maintain GM’s Opel operations in Germany - but the future of UK plants remain uncertain, according to reports on the Continent.
Opel Group is to begin publishing fuel consumption figures recorded under the proposed new WLTP 'real world' testing cycle from June this year.
A 24-strong delegation of Vauxhall retailers were selected to join 100 of the most successful dealers across Opel Europe at a congress held at the brand’s headquarters in Rüsselsheim, Germany.
