VAUXHALL PLANS TO REPOSITION AS SPORTIER BRAND
Autocar UK
|September 24, 2025
VAUXHALL WILL BECOME a sportier brand within the Stellantis stable in its next generation of models, starting with the new Corsa supermini.
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Stellantis Europe boss Jean-Philippe Imparato said the recent Corsa GSE Vision Gran Turismo concept showed the initial thinking behind taking Stellantis's brands into more “white space” and moving further away from one another — Vauxhall's white space being sportiness.
This story is from the September 24, 2025 edition of Autocar UK.
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