General Motors announced on Friday that it will begin production of its Opel Astra at the company’s Ruesselsheim, Germany production facility. The Astra is GM’s most popular European model and is currently built in Bochum, Germany; Gleiwitz, Poland and Ellesmere Port in the UK.
Production of the Astra in Ruesselsheim will begin sometime in 2010.
The Astra is sold here in the U.S. under the Saturn brand, but there is no word on U.S. production. However, due to the poor exchange rate, it’s quite possible General Motors could soon announce North American Astra production, possibly at the company’s doomed Oshawa, Ontario truck plant.
In the same release, GM also shot down rumors that the next-gen Saab 9-3 would be built in Ruesselsheim, saying that production would remain in Trollhaettan, Sweden.
