Opel Combo is heading back to the assembly line in Bursa — and this time it’s not just one model changing its production address. Starting in the third quarter of 2026, Tofaş is set to launch the entire K9 family for Stellantis, with planned capacity of up to 150,000 vehicles a year. Combo will be just one part of a much bigger program, built alongside the group’s related light commercial models.
For Opel, this is a genuinely significant shift: in 2025 the brand sold 27,471 light commercial vehicles in Turkey, good for third place in the segment, with the Combo alone accounting for 15,722 of those sales — more than half the brand’s total in the category. That figure matches the model’s published January–December sales statistics.
So localization isn’t landing on some niche afterthought — it’s landing on one of Opel’s core commercial products in the country. Back in January, Opel Türkiye brand director Yiğit Yantaç said that once Combo production starts, the share of locally built vehicles in the brand’s light commercial lineup could climb to around 70%.
And for Bursa, this is in a sense less a beginning than a return. Tofaş’s own official history already lists an earlier run of Opel Combo production, part of a previous multi-brand project built on the Fiat Doblo platform. The new program is now built around the K9 family and a multi-energy architecture.
Yiğit Yantaç explained what the project means this way: “Opel has a very deep connection with Turkey. For a brand that once built cars in our country, returning to production in Turkey today is an extremely valuable step for us — not just strategically, but emotionally too. For years we’ve heard strong demand from our customers for Opel models to be produced in Turkey. We’re very glad that today we’re answering that expectation. The fact that the Opel Combo, engineered in Germany, will now be born in Bursa thanks to Turkish engineers and Tofaş’s world-class production, symbolizes the meeting of two strong engineering cultures.”
The sheer scale of the project speaks for itself: Stellantis clearly isn’t betting on a short local run. Under the published terms of the program, roughly 660,000 vehicles are expected to roll out by the end of 2034, excluding CKD units, with around 80% of that volume earmarked for the Turkish market.
The immediate payoff is a Combo less dependent on outside supply chains, with more room to adjust volumes quickly to Turkish demand. What doesn’t automatically follow is a lower retail price — Opel has made no such promise. The first real-world test of the localization effect will come once cars start reaching dealers from Bursa, and the price lists that follow production launch.
