IBC vehicles
The IBC Vehicles Ltd. from Luton is a former automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer , founded in 1987 as a joint venture between Vauxhall Motors Ltd. with a 60 percent stake and the Isuzu Jidōsha kk with a 40 percent stake was founded. The company acted as the successor to Bedford Vehicles Ltd. The acronym IBC used in the company name stood for Isuzu Bedford Company . The IBC Vehicles Ltd. became the company's successor in 1998.
The plant was particularly known for the production of the Vauxhall Astra Combo as well as the slightly modified Opel Kadett Combo . There were also the Vauxhall Frontera and its European market version Opel Frontera , and the Opel Campo / Vauxhall Brava / Holden Campo . The Opel Sintra and Vauxhall Sintra finally replaced the combo sister models in the mid-nineties .
The IBC Vehicles plant area covered a total area of 378,000 m³, on which a total of 2088 employees were employed. IBC Vehicles produced 124,000 vehicles for the European market annually. In 1996 Renault joined as a cooperation partner. However, no vehicle of the French brand was launched before Isuzu's exit. Instead, the development of the joint Opel Vivaro model began, but it did not go into series production at the successor company until autumn 2000.