European Combo C production ended in 2011, but Holden stockpiled enough unsold vans in Australia and New Zealand to keep selling them for almost two more years.
Lead trim: 1.6 (87 PS) · up to 99 hp
Opel Combo C2002–2012
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FactEuropean Combo C production ended in 2011, but Holden stockpiled enough unsold vans in Australia and New Zealand to keep selling them for almost two more years.
The second-generation Combo was launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2001, with sales beginning in January 2002. Opel again based the vehicle on the Corsa, now on the subcompact Gamma platform, with the front clip shared back to the A-pillar and, compared to the previous generation, sliding rear side doors. An Opel Combo Tour was also introduced, followed by the Combo Tour Tramp (Combo Tour Arizona in some markets), with enhanced suspension tuning, increased ground clearance and chassis protection covers. The Azambuja, Portugal, factory closed in December 2006 and production moved to Zaragoza, Spain, in 2007; production of the Combo C ended at the end of 2011, ahead of the December 2011 launch of the Combo D, and Holden in Australia sold the XC series Combo until stock ran out in 2013.
Collectors Spotted in the Opel Combo Lineage
No member has published a public street spot of the Opel Combo yet — the First · Worldwide stamp is wide open.
Trims & Figures
8 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.3 CDTI (69 PS) | 2002–2012 | 1.2 L Inline-4 | 68 hp | 125 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 1.3 CDTI ecoFLEX (75 PS) | 2002–2012 | 1.2 L Inline-4 | 74 hp | 125 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 1.4 Twinport ecoFLEX (90 PS) | 2002–2012 | 1.4 L Inline-4 | 89 hp | 92 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 1.6 (87 PS) | 2002–2012 | 1.6 L Inline-4 | 86 hp | 98 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 1.6 CNG ecoFLEX (94 PS) | 2002–2012 | 1.6 L Inline-4 | 93 hp | 98 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 1.7 CDTI (101 PS) | 2002–2012 | 1.7 L Inline-4 | 99 hp | 177 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 1.7 DI (65 PS) | 2002–2012 | 1.7 L Inline-4 | 64 hp | 96 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 1.7 DTI (75 PS) | 2002–2012 | 1.7 L Inline-4 | 74 hp | 122 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
Owning one
We don’t estimate running costs for a car like this. What it costs depends on its condition, its specialist and how it is driven, and an average would mislead.
Owners’ builds
Nobody has claimed one yet.
Photographs
This Combo shares its bones with the Citroën Berlingo and Peugeot Rifter/Partner — the badge-engineering PSA inherited when it bought Opel in 2017.
Earlier Combos were built in Portugal and Spain, but the third generation shifted production to Tofaş's plant in Bursa, Turkey.
European Combo C production ended in 2011, but Holden stockpiled enough unsold vans in Australia and New Zealand to keep selling them for almost two more years.
Long after Opel moved on in Europe, this Combo kept building in China through 2005 — badged as the Shanghai Auto Saibao, sharing its 1.6 with the Buick Sail.
The Kadett Combo was built two different ways: Vauxhall assembled it in Ellesmere Port, England until 1989, then the line moved to Opel's own plant in Azambuja, Portugal for the rest of its run.
Rivals
Same body, same money, other badges — tap any card to flip.
Chevy pitched the Astro as the anti-minivan, telling buyers life was too big for one, while it rode on a rear-wheel-drive truck frame.
The IIHS rated the Astro Poor in a 1996 crash test, yet 2001–2004 Astros later had the lowest driver death rate of any US passenger vehicle.
The boxy, unglamorous Astro quietly posted one of the best real-world safety records in America: IIHS found 2001-2004 models had the fewest driver deaths per million vehicles of any passenger vehicle on US roads.
The third-generation Tourneo Connect, released in Europe in October 2021, is a rebadged fourth-generation Volkswagen Caddy, assembled by Volkswagen in Poland.
Ford beat the 25% "chicken tax" by importing the Transit Connect as a passenger van — rear windows and seats included, then stripped out and recycled once it landed in the US.
Ford spent years in federal court over the second-gen Transit Connect: in June 2019 the US won its appeal, and judges ruled the van was cargo-only — ending Ford's workaround for the 'chicken tax.'
GM sold a rebadged Nissan NV200 as the Chevy City Express for four years, then killed it in 2018, citing weak sales and the fact that its parts weren't even compatible with GM's own parts catalog.
Its name is a pun: "S-Cargo" means "Small Cargo" but sounds just like escargot — French for snail, the shape the whole van was built to resemble.