BERLIN, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Franco-Italian carmaker Stellantis is upbeat in regards to the outlook of its German subsidiary Opel which it believes will have the ability to maintain working as a separate model, the corporate's Europe chief Uwe Hochgeschurtz informed journal Automobilwoche.
“I am pleased with the model and with its array of merchandise,” Hochgeschurtz was quoted as saying within the interview printed on Sunday. “There's nice capability for improvement.”
The design centre in Ruesselsheim was some of the trendy in the whole firm, he mentioned, whereas the German factories had a gradual workload that means their future was protected.
Hochgeschurtz blamed Opel's lack of market share largely because of insufficient transport capability to ship the vehicles to sellers.
“We had the shoppers, we had the completed vehicles, however they didn't get to the place they wanted to get,” he mentioned.
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“Given the dearth of truck drivers, there may be solely restricted transport capability. That is why we now have provided gross sales folks to return and decide up the vehicles themselves in our depots.”
Hochgeschurtz named Latin America, Turkey and North Africa nearly as good export markets for Opel.
“However the core of the market is Europe,” he mentioned.
Reporting by Klaus Lauer, Writing by Sarah Marsh; Enhancing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise
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