Vauxhall has added an extra turbo to the Insignia 2.0 litre diesel to create the Vauxhall Insignia BiTurbo with 192bhp and 57.6mpg. The Vauxhall Insignia is a more than half decent car, and capable of handling quite a chunk of power too. So it will have no trouble handling the extra diesel power arriving in the guise […]
Opel / Vauxhall Ampera on hold over Chevy Volt fire
With the NHTSA investigating Chevy Volt battery fires, the debut of the Opel/Vauxhall Ampera has been put on hold. If you ignore the price, we’re all in favour of the range extender hybrid option as the most elegant solution to electric cars. But new technology is not without its problems, as GM are finding out with the Chevy Volt. […]
New Vauxhall Zafira Tourer: Full Zafira Tourer price list released
The Vauxhall Zafira Tourer – revealed at Geneva 2011 – is Vauxhall / Opel’s answer to the Ford S-Max. And now we have all the prices. Vauxhall do like to drag car reveals out. And even when you think they’re ready to tell you everything, there’s still stuff missing. But, finally, we get a full […]
New Vauxhall Astra VXR (2012) revealed
The new Vauxhall Astra VXR has been revealed ahead of its 2012 launch. It gets 277bhp from its 2.0 litre four pot turbo. We’ve been expecting news of the new 2012 Vauxhall Astra VXR for a while, especially as Vauxhall intend launching the hot Astra in 2012. And now we have a little more on […]
2013 Astra Convertible spied on video – The new Vauxhall Calibra / Opel Manta?
We’ve got spy video of the new Astra Convertible, which is based on the Astra GTC and eschews the hard top of the old Astra CC. Arrives 2013. Vauxhall and Opel have now managed to reveal much of the new Astra Model range – with the Astra GTC debuting at Frankfurt last month being the […]
Vauxhall Zafira Tourer to undercut Ford S-Max price by over £1,200
It’s been announced that the Vauxhall Zafira Tourer – which debuted this week at Frankfurt 2011 – will undercut the Ford S-Max by over £1200. We had the usual tease for the Vauxhall Zafira Tourer – Vauxhall’s answer to the Ford S-Max – earlier this year, with the Zafira Tourer finally turning up at the Geneva Motor Show in […]
Frankfurt 2011: New Vauxhall Astra GTC (2012) debut
The Vauxhall Astra GTC finally make its production début at Frankfurt, 12 months after its arrival as a concept and 3 months from the reveal. The Vauxhall Astra GTC (and its European equivalent Opel GTC) finally gets to go on public view at Frankfurt this week, a year after it arrived as a concept at […]
Opel / Vauxhall Electric Urban Concept – another EV Go-Kart
GM Europe – That’s Opel & Vauxhall – has revealed a two seat electric Urban Car Concept, said to herald a new era of low-cost urban transport. We’ve come to the conclusion that car makers now employ designers who were 10 years old in 1985. That’s the only explanation for the raft of Sinclair C5 […]
Vauxhall Astra GTC revealed: Prices & Models
The Vauxhall Astra GTC gets revealed (for the umpteenth time) together with price and model details. On sale now from £18,495. Vauxhall has certainly got some mileage out of the launch of the 2012 Vauxhall Astra GTC. As has Opel for the launch of their differently badge version of GM’s Euro-hot-hatch, designed to take on the […]
2012 Zafira Tourer revealed
Vauxhall and Opel have revealed the production version of the Zafira Concept from this year’s Geneva Motor Show – the 2012 Zafira Tourer. GM’s European arms of Vauxhall and Opel managed to tease us with the Zafira Tourer Concept back in February with a hologram of the new 7-seat Zafira hovering over the iPad of designer Mark Adams. Which if we […]