Stellantis Luton plant closed on March 31, 2025
- As was seriously considered since last year, the Stellantis group announced the closure of its British plant in Luton, which had only produced vans (thermal and battery electric) in the N1-2 segment since 2002, i.e. since the end of production of the Opel/Vauxhall Vectra sedan. This plant was one of the two Opel/Vauxhall factories present on British soil, along with the one in Ellesmere Port, which continues to assemble battery electric vans in the N1-1 segment (Opel/Vauxhall e-Combo, Citroën e- Berlingo , Peugeot e-Partner) since the end of the Opel/Vauxhall Astra sedan in 2022, transferred to the German site in Rüsselsheim.
- The production volume of the Luton plant had not exceeded 86,671 vehicles in 2024. The models produced were the Opel/Vauxhall Vivaro, Citroën Jumpy, Peugeot Expert and Fiat Scudo. These models, also produced at the French plant of Hordain, will be transferred to two different sites, Hordain which produced 157,689 vehicles in 2024 and which will take over the thermal versions of the vans produced in Luton (74,671 units in 2024), and Ellesmere Port in the United Kingdom which produced 17,911 vehicles in 2024 and which will take over the battery electric versions of the vans produced in Luton (12,000 units in 2024), the Stellantis group wishing to group together the electric versions of its N1-1 and N1-2 vans on the same site, that of Ellesmere Port.
- This decision was also taken considering that the production capacity of the Hordain site (180,000 vehicles per year) was insufficient to receive all of Luton's production.