announced the sale of its european division to france based p.s.a. group the two point five billion dollars deal includes the germany based opel and u.k. paste a fox. cars it's a pretty big victory for p.s.a. since it expands its european market share to seventeen percent second only to volkswagen considering the years long emissions scandal. has been grappling with it remains unclear how long it'll be able to maintain that top spot more significantly the opel and vauxhall will now be taken care of by the same company that sells the vehicles who show has received international awards for its cars and is known for its reliability creating high hopes for the brands that g.m. struggled to sell overseas and the move adds to a long list of discontinued g.m. sales starting in two thousand and fifteen the automaker stopped selling chevrolet models in europe left russia and stopped manufacturing in australia on top of that g.m. announced earlier this year that it would end operations in south africa and stop selling in india and the reason for a cut in global sale