General Motors said that it plans to move struggling Opel more upmarket in Europe, while bringing in Chevrolet as a its entry-level brand into the market. During a presentation to analysts in Detroit yesterday, GM CEO Dan Akerson and Chief Marketing Officer Joel Ewanick, said that GM will try to use Opel’s German heritage to [...]
Opel has been on a roll revamping their lineup and the latest and greatest Astra and Insignia are both examples that have much potential of reinvigorating the brand’s appeal. Not too long ago, Opel announced that it will be coming out with a new large crossover that will go against the likes of the new [...]
The new boss of General Motors’ Opel brand, Karl-Friedrich Stracke, is a product guy at heart. According to Stracke, Opel plans on introducing a new premium model above the top-of-the-line Insignia as well as an electric car smaller than the Ampera plug-in hybrid. “The Opel brand can’t content itself with the Insignia,” Stracke said. The [...]
The Opel Insignia OPC is powered by a 2.8 V6 Turbo engine allowing for 325-hp and a peak torque of 295 lb-ft. That allows the Opel Insignia OPC (which is the 255-hp Buick Regal GS on the stateside without the V6) to go from 0 to 62 mph in 6 seconds with a top speed of [...]
Sources say that Opel and Vauxhall are working on a successor to the Calibra coupe, which could go on sale by 2013. Known internally as the “New Calibra,” the next-generation model is likely to share design influences from the Insignia GTC Concept car. However, there are some issues. According to sources, while the model is [...]
GM has unveiled the ecoFLEX version of the Opel/Vauxhall Insignia, which generates a combined CO2 of just 136g/km with a combined fuel-economy of 46 mpg and a potential range of over 842 miles. Power comes from a 2.0L turbo-diesel engine making 160-hp, which allows the Insignia ecoFLEX to go from 0 to 60 mph in 8.9 seconds [...]
A reader of our friends at WorldCarFans spotted the new Opel Insignia hanging out in Michigan. Sources have recently reported that the Opel Insignia, originally scheduled to arrive in the U.S. as a Saturn Aura, will now come here as the 2010 Buick Regal sedan. Following that it was reported GM also considered the Insignia [...]
If GM can’t spin off Saturn by 2012, the brand will be completely shut down. Earlier this week it was reported that since Saturn’s future is now foggy, the European-designed Opel Insignia, originally scheduled to replace the current Saturn Aura next year, would be rebadged as a Buick. Sources said that GM plans to bring [...]
The new 2009 Buick Regal has made its debut in China. Shanghai GM, a joint venture between GM and Shanghai revealed the car to the Chinese market yesterday. The new Regal is basically a rebadged 2009 Opel Insignia that we saw at the 2008 Paris Auto Show; however minor details were changed to give the car a Buick look [...]
At the 2008 Paris Motor Show, GM’s Opel brand showed its new Insignia model in three different variants including a sedan, wagon and a hatchback. According to the Detroit News, the Insignia will come to the U.S. within the next three years but will only come as a sedan. So we won’t get a hatchback [...]
