Currently reading: Vauxhall Mokka X taken off sale with replacement a year away

Popular crossover is removed from price lists after production ended in June; replacement will have EV option

Vauxhall has confirmed it is no longer taking orders for the Mokka X, after seven years on sale and more than 200,000 examples shifted in the UK alone. 

Although the Nissan Juke rival is still seemingly available to configure on the brand’s website, production actually ended in June. A Vauxhall spokesperson claims that the only orders taken will be for existing dealer stock, which is now running low. 

A statement confirmed that an all-new Mokka X, to be 'fully electrified', will go on sale in 2020. However, Autocar understands that examples won’t actually arrive for UK customers until the start of 2021. The new compact SUV is expected to be shown in petrol, diesel and electric form at the same time, likely at the Geneva motor show in March, but sales won’t commence until towards the end of the year. 

The Mokka X, just outside the UK’s top-ten sellers for 2018, is by far Vauxhall’s oldest model on sale, despite a refresh in which 'X' was added to the name in 2016. The car’s platform and powertrains date from well before Opel and Vauxhall were taken under the wing of the PSA Group.

This means the Vauxhall Astra and Insignia Grand Sport are now the last models on sale to be developed solely by former owner General Motors (GM). The Astra has just received a facelift but doesn’t make use of PSA engines, with the company instead choosing to finish the half-done development of new GM units. 

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Big teddy 28 November 2019

Mokka

It's OK. the pugulamokka I'm broken down on the road side waiting to be towed nw version based on the Mos unreliable French built junk will be launched soon. No more vauxhall for me. French junk now.
Jeremy 28 November 2019

Crossland X

I thought the PSA-based Crossland X was a partial replacement for the Mokka X? The Mokka X is near the end of its life anyway, and I assume that withdrawing it early saves on royalty payments to GM.

Zeddy 28 November 2019

Jeremy wrote:

Jeremy wrote:

I thought the PSA-based Crossland X was a partial replacement for the Mokka X? The Mokka X is near the end of its life anyway, and I assume that withdrawing it early saves on royalty payments to GM.

That Crossland is as ungainly as any ugly suv on the market.

scrap 28 November 2019

The Mokka is awful and its

The Mokka is awful and its popularity hardly flatters the wider UK buying public. People really will buy (or lease) any old s*** if they think it makes them look good.

Big teddy 28 November 2019

Oh.

And you think this French lot make something better. Hardly.
Paul Dalgarno 28 November 2019

Weird

There will of course be reasons behind this, but to stop selling a car just outside the top 10 best sellers is strange.  

Adding an X to the end of the name was another piece of "genius" Vauxhall marketing. I noticed they have Turbo badges on Insignias now - have we been transported back to the 80s? Bizzare marketing yet again. I do accept it's next to impossible to market Vauxhall's though - no distinguishing features, adequate but no more, haven't made a great car in 30 years. They need a modern day Lotus Carlton (not a Monaro that meant nothing to UK buyers initially). Break out a spectacular BEV sports car, so anything to revive the brand. 

typos1 28 November 2019

Paul Dalgarno wrote:

Paul Dalgarno wrote:

There will of course be reasons behind this, but to stop selling a car just outside the top 10 best sellers is strange.  

Adding an X to the end of the name was another piece of "genius" Vauxhall marketing. I noticed they have Turbo badges on Insignias now - have we been transported back to the 80s? Bizzare marketing yet again. I do accept it's next to impossible to market Vauxhall's though - no distinguishing features, adequate but no more, haven't made a great car in 30 years. They need a modern day Lotus Carlton (not a Monaro that meant nothing to UK buyers initially). Break out a spectacular BEV sports car, so anything to revive the brand. 

How is it strange when ITS OUT OF PRODUCTION !? You cant really keep it on sale if you dont make it anymore can you !?

Paul Dalgarno 28 November 2019

Typos

typos1 wrote:

Paul Dalgarno wrote:

There will of course be reasons behind this, but to stop selling a car just outside the top 10 best sellers is strange.  

Adding an X to the end of the name was another piece of "genius" Vauxhall marketing. I noticed they have Turbo badges on Insignias now - have we been transported back to the 80s? Bizzare marketing yet again. I do accept it's next to impossible to market Vauxhall's though - no distinguishing features, adequate but no more, haven't made a great car in 30 years. They need a modern day Lotus Carlton (not a Monaro that meant nothing to UK buyers initially). Break out a spectacular BEV sports car, so anything to revive the brand. 

How is it strange when ITS OUT OF PRODUCTION !? You cant really keep it on sale if you dont make it anymore can you !?

 

Someone had to take the decision to take it out of production clearly, so why when it's a decent seller? Profit margin, factory utilisation, etc?