General Motors’ German unit Opel plans to make about 300,000 units of its redesigned Astra model next year, company executives told Reuters on Thursday.
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Jonathan Lauckner, one of the executives overseeing the new Astra line, told Reuters at a presentation of the new model line in the Opel plant in the port city of Antwerp, that the figure would later rise to 500,000 following the start-up phase of production and following launch of other versions.
Production at Antwerp, which will handle the bulk –about 240,000 units – will begin in January, with plants in Britain (Vauxhall at Ellesmere Port) and Germany to follow shortly after, the news agency said.
Lauckner reportedly said the replacement for the existing Astra model line, launched in 1997, amounted to an investment of “more than €1 billion “
Eddy Geysen, managing director at the Antwerp facility, told Reuters the plant will have a production capacity of 260,000 cars.
