GM Manufacturing Luton
The IBC Vehicles Ltd. is an automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer from Luton, England . The company was founded in 1998 as the successor to IBC Vehicles Ltd. founded. Until 2010 it was a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Motors Europe . However, since the Swiss parent company ceased to exist, the plant has again been owned by General Motors UK Ltd. The management, however, is subject to Adam Opel AG .
description
The factory premises cover a total area of 378,000 m² and employ around 1,100 people who work in two shifts to assemble up to 84,000 vehicles a year for the European market. The main competitors of the English company are the French Société Européenne de Véhicules Légers SA as well as the Italian Società Europea Veicoli Leggeri Sevel SpA
The company became known in particular through the cooperation between Renault and Nissan and GM (with the brands Opel and Holden ), under which commercial vehicles such as panel vans, minibuses, flatbed trucks and dump trucks are manufactured for the European market. ( Badge Engineering ) As of 2014, the plant will only produce the 2nd generation Opel Vivaro / Vauxhall Vivaro.
Model overview
Passenger cars
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GM2900E |
1998 to 2002: Opel Vectra Vauxhall Vectra 1999 to 2002: Holden Vectra |
The Vectra came from the previous company and rolled off the production line in Luton as a hatchback hatchback and as a station wagon under the market name Caravan . On the home market there was the model as Vauxhall, for the export markets except Australia and East Asia, however, it was produced as Opel. In the Australasian markets it was sold under the Australian automobile brand Holden. In the first model year, the Holden was assembled at the Elizabeth factory in Adelaide, and in 1999 assembly had to be relocated to Luton for cost reasons. After production ended in 2002, the Vectra was the manufacturer's last car model for the next seven years. The assembly of the Vectra was stopped in favor of the commercial vehicles, which were very popular at the time. In particular, this should enable the introduction of the Special Vehicle Order . |
Van
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GM200E |
1998 to 1999: Opel Sintra |
The Sintra also comes from IBC Vehicles and was assembled for the European market for another year. The basis of the van was the GM200 platform, which was obtained together with the other vehicle parts from the GM production plant near Doraville in Georgia . |
Off-road vehicle and pick-up
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R20 |
1998 to 2007: Nissan Terrano Van |
The Terrano Van is the first vehicle that was created in Luton in collaboration with Nissan. It was based on the second generation of the Terrano and was identical to this. The only difference was that the English version was a panel van. The Terrano Van was not only sold on the British market, but also in Spain and Portugal. In 2000 the model was subjected to a facelift . The vehicle parts used came from Spanish production by Nissan Motor Ibérica SA. They were manufactured in a factory near Barcelona . In 2007 the production of the Terrano Van finally ended. There was no successor. |
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1998 to 2001: Holden Campo Opel Campo Opel Campo |
The Campo is the third and final model to come out of the IBC Vehicles joint venture. With the complete takeover of the plant by General Motors, the pick-up , which had previously been marketed under the names Isuzu Campo and Vauxhall Brava , underwent a facelift. The SUV variant fell out of the model range. The model name Campo was retained. GM now sold the model under the Vauxhall / Opel and Holden brands. |
Panel vans, people carriers and flatbed trucks
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since 2001: Opel Vivaro / Vauxhall Vivaro 2001-2014: Renault Trafic II 2002-2014: Nissan Primastar |
The jointly developed Opel / Vauxhall Vivaro and Renault Trafic II have been manufactured in Luton since 2001, as has the identical Nissan Primastar since 2002. The vehicle parts are delivered from various production facilities in a total of 17 countries. The new generation of the pickup truck, which comes on the market in 2014, is only produced as an Opel and Vauxhall model in Luton. |