Opel are back in the game with Corsa

WE SHOULD count ourselves lucky that Opel is still with us at all. Over the last decade a number of scenarios were proposed during discussions about the future of Opel’s parent, General Motors; one of those was the closure of the European arm.

Falling sales, poor products and mounting losses had put Opel (and Vauxhall in the UK) on the line, but the American bosses decided it had a viable future and agreed to a programme of investment to turn it around.

But first the Americans had to turn GM around, after its 2008 bankruptcy, before it could begin to concentrate on Opel’s problems.