Hello fellas.
Today I found some pictures from a Chevrolet Montana with french license plates and i'm trying to discover the origin from these photos. What I know about the Montana is that was only built in Brazil and sold in the Mercosur, in Mexico and in South Africa. The ZA spec was called Opel Corsa Pickup and the mexican is called Chevrolet Tornado.
Anybody know if the Montana was sold in Europe or planned to be sold there? These photos are puzzling me all day

I doubt it was sold there or that there were plans to, particularly as the one in the pictures is badged as a Chevy when any European model would be badged Opel.

That said, when I was in France a few years ago I did see one of these: http://img.turbo.fr/04894632-photo-fiat-strada-adventure.jpg

The Strada is sold regularly in Italy and some European countries

The Montana in the pictures has pre-2009 temporary plates that were restricted to car dealers and mechanics, 95 being the Val-d'Oise (North of Paris). Really weird.

If sold in France, I never saw one. But I confirm the presence of the Strada in the motherland of Camembert: I saw a 2013 model last year. I even took a picture of it for the interesting/funny/special cars sightings thread, but forgot to do publish it

GM was maybe simply testing it. Like some French cars can be seen from time to time in North-America with dealer plates...

The photos look like advertising pictures. I would guess that a commercial was filmed in France and these photos were taken at the same time.

No, none of the ZA-spec Opel were ever sold in Europe, none of the Corsa Pickups at all.

There was only one exception, the

http://imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&yearFrom=&yearTo=&makeMatch=- 2&make=ranger&modelMatch=1&model=&modelInclModel=on&modelInclChassis=on&mk=&class1=- 1&class2=2&origin=&madein=&madefor=&role=

and that was sold -and even assembled- only in Switzerland and Belgium.


These photos are older, so made at a time, when the Korean made "Chevrolet" still were sold here, but nowadays thisb brand doesn't exist in Europe any more. As in the past, the Chevrolets over here, are only the US-cars.

Just to be clear, I meant to say that these are surely publicity photos made for use in Brazil or another South American market.

And the photos doesn't look, that they were made in France, especially not the second.

Could be Spain though