Opel
German solar energy company offers to buy Opel from GM
General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner has already stated that the only brand in his company’s portfolio up for sale is HUMMER, but apparently this hasn’t stopped interested parties from making their play for other marques under the General’s umbrella. News broke today that German solar energy company SolarWorld has offered GM nearly $1.3 billion USD [...]
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Opel/Vauxhall Insignia wins European Car of the Year by single point
Looks like there won’t be much of a fiesta for Ford this year, as the Opel/Vauxhall Insignia has captured the 2009 European Car of the Year award by just one point over the hot little hatch with the big blue oval on its snout. Scoring 321 points to the Fiesta’s 320, the Insignia claimed the [...]
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Fuel-sipping diesel European minivans - is one right for you?
It’s back to school season and, since buses aren’t available everywhere, for some people it’s time to drive the kids to their classes. With all those important soccer football matches games, swimming lessons and family escapes on long weekends, you need a vehicle with enough seats for your children and a place to keep all [...]
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Frankfurt 09 Preview: Opel releases teasers of the new Astra
We’re still a month away from the Paris Motor Show which alternates every other year with the Frankfurt Motor Show. Nonetheless, GM has released some teaser images of the next-generation Astra which won’t appear until Frankfurt in 2009. We’ve been seeing spy shots of the new Astra for some time now, but GM has managed [...]
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GM gives very early sneak peek at next-gen Astra
Click above for high-res gallery of fourth-gen Astra sneak peek
We just told you about Bob Lutz’ comments that the Saturn Astra is too expensive and not making any money in the U.S., but that may change when the next iteration arrives. Of course, the next Astra will debut in Europe first as an Opel (and [...]
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Spy Shots: New Opel Meriva caught in the wild
The next-generation Opel Meriva has been caught testing on somewhere on public roads. The Meriva is a tall wagon based on GM’s European B-car platform which also underpins the Corsa. The new Meriva was displayed in concept form at this year’s Geneva Motor Show and the production version doesn’t appear to differ too much from [...]
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Vauxhall launches the Astra ecoFlex
GM’s brand in the United Kingdom, Vauxhall, has launched the Astra Ecoflex version. As with the array of green signatures created by all European automakers (see: Bluemotion, Ecomotive, Eco2, Airdream…), the Vaxuhall Ecoflex takes a standard Astra, and greens up the base diesel engine while adding tweaks to the car to lower CO2 emissions and [...]
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Insignia Sports Tourer wagon revealed before Paris Motor Show
The all-new Insignia is about to go on sale as a Vauxhall in Britain and an Opel throughout the rest of Europe, thereby replacing the Vectra sedan. It’s a marked improvement over its predecessor in style, and we’re eager for it to arrive in the States as the next-gen Saturn Aura. Vauxhall had the honor [...]
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Spy Shots: Opel Astra caught
Ja, Bjorn, tink dat’s de new Astra? Shoor looks like it, Jan. Lutz will be asking you to kiss this thing when it comes out from under that checkerboard camo. The current Astra is good, and the new one promises to be better, with looks that aren’t revolutionary, but nicely done nonetheless. We’ll see this [...]
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Insignia will come to U.S. as a Saturn, with new sheetmetal, interior
Despite repeated rumblings from industry sources (including Lutz himself) that the Opel Insignia’s transformation into a Saturn model was on hold, Bob Lutz now indicates that work is indeed proceeding on making that model ready for the American market. Changes are going to be made to both the interior and the exterior of the Insignia [...]
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