GM Daewoo is ready to lure customers back into showrooms in the UK with the appointment of Andy Carroll as managing director and a new product launch by the end of this year.

Carroll was chief operating officer of OneSwoop.com in the UK and before that was head of commercial vehicle sales for General Motors Europe. A UK transition team will establish the new organisation which will become operational in the last quarter of 2002.

The new Kalos supermini will go on sale in the UK later this year after being exhibited at October's British International Motor Show in Birmingham.