The Lexus CT 200h is about to get its Buick competitor. General Motors’ new Opel Astra GTC in Europe may soon find itself life in the United States as a Buick. “I could easily see it as a Buick,” Opel’s top executive, Karl-Friedrich Stracke, said in a briefing at Opel’s Russelsheim, Germany, headquarters last week [...]
The new Opel / Vauxhall Astra GTC is a handsome looking car. Even the last generation was by all means not too poor of a looker either. But as soon as they chopped off the roof to make the Astra CC, it feminized the hatch a little way too much. Where as the directly completive [...]
General Motors Opel and Vauxhall have finally unveiled the new Astra GTC three-door sport hatchback, which will debut at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show later this year. A huge step up from the past Astra models, the new 2012 Opel Astra GTC stands out with a new aggressive design and strong driving capabilities (at least [...]
Yesterday we brought you a look at the Top 10 Best-Selling Cars of 2010 in the United States. Today, we’re going to cross over the Atlantic and see what the top 10 best selling cars were in the United Kingdom. Right off the bat, you’ll notice that compact cars are much more popular in Europe. [...]
At the 2010 Paris Motor Show Opel and Vauxhall revealed the GTC Paris Concept, a strong hint “to the Astra Sport Hatch”s successor.” According to AutoCar, General Motors German and British brand turned to Lotus Engineering to fine-tune the upcoming Astra VXR (OPC) for buyers. While most of the development work on the next-generation is [...]
One model we were really sad to see go when General Motors killed Saturn was the Astra – and now with an exciting new successor on the way, we’re even more upset. What you’re looking at here is the Vauxhall GTC Paris Concept, a study that “gives the strongest hint yet to the Astra Sport [...]
The 2010 Opel Astra, scheduled to go on sale in Europe in early 2010, will see many different variants when it comes to the market. We’ve heard that a three-door version along with a high-performance OPC (or VXR for Vauxhall) are also in the works. A two-seater Astra convertible is also rumored to make its [...]
The 2010 Opel Astra is looking good and is set to make it world debut at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show in September. However, what’s better looking than the ’10 Astra is a new convertible Astra that is currently in the works at Opel’s UK brand, Vauxhall. The new Opel/Vauxhall Astra convertible is currently being [...]
Earlier this morning we saw a bunch of interior images for the 2010 Opel Astra aka 2010 Vauxhall Astra. Vauxhall has now revealed a new viral video of the 2010 Astra going around the hill route at the Millbrook Proving Ground Piloted by Vauxhall’s own BTCC driver Fabrizio Giovanardi, the video shows the 2010 Vauxhall Astra [...]
After a little leak yesterday, GM has finally released all the details, images and a video of the 2010 Opel Astra (known as the 2010 Vauxhall Astra in the UK). The slightly longer (71mm wheelbase) Opel Astra will make its world debut at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show in Sept. as a five-door hatchback. Opel [...]
