Insignia
Opel Builds 500,000th Insignia
Opel builds 500,000th Insignia at its Russelsheim plant. Its a white Insignia Sports Tourer fitted with Opel’s new 192hp (195PS) 2.0 BiTurbo diesel engine. Opel already sold 150,000 Insignias in Europe with the UK and Germany remaining the biggest markets with 46,000 and 26,000 deliveries respectively, less than four years after its market launch [...]
Vauxhall Insignia BiTurbo with 195HP Diesel
A new more powerful diesel has been added under to the Vauxhall Insignia line up in the UK. The 2.0-liter unit delivers an output of 195PS at 4,000 rpm. The new Vauxhall diesel is based on the existing 2.0 CDTi used on several Vauxhall models such as the Insignia, Astra and new Zafira [...]
Vauxhall Insignia VXR with 170mph Top Speed
Vauxhall introduced its hot version of the Insignia sedan with the VXR moniker. The Unlimited option removes the standard Insignia VXR’s 155mph restrictor, allowing Vauxhall’s range-topper to exploit its all-wheel-drive chassis and 325HP turbocharged 2.8-litre V6 engine to the full topping out at 170mph.
Opel Insignia Sports Tourer is Polizei now
The Opel Insignia Sports Tourer has been recruited for duty by the Polizei force of the German State of Hesse. The authorities announced that they have ordered a total of 800 patrol cars, with the first 100 examples to be delivered this year.
New engines for Opel / Vauxhall Insignia
Opel added several engines in the Insignia range (known as the Buick Regal in the U.S.) for better economy and CO2 emissions. In the five-door liftback and four-door sedan ecoFLEX models, emissions have now dropped from 136g/km to 129g/km, with a corresponding improvement in fuel consumption from 54.3mpg UK [5.2lt/100km] combined, to 57.6mpg UK [4.9lt/100km]. [...]
Promo video: Insignia 4×4 vs. Ascona 400 Rally Car
The 2.4-liter Opel Ascona 400 Rally Car is pitched against the new Opel’s Insignia 4×4 in a race on ice. Behind the steering wheel of the Ascona 400 is rally legend Christian Geistdörfer while the modern-day Insignia is driven by racing talent Sina Winkelhock, daughter of Jockel Winkelhock.
The Insignia is now offered with an [...]
Opel / Vauxhall Insignia OPC / VXR
Good news for Insignia’s fans: the high-performance variant of the Opel /Vauxhall Insignia will make its debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Britain that runs from July 3-5. The 325HP Insignia OPC (also known as VXR on the Britain market), the rear-wheel-drive, 6.2-litre supercharged V8 engined VXR8 Bathurst S Edition 560HP that will [...]
Opel Insignia OPC Sports Tourer
Look at the first official photos of the estate version of Opel Insignia OPC. The Opel Insignia OPC station wagon, a.k.a. Sports Tourer, shares the same mechanical underpinnings with the four-door sedan. It comes with a four-wheel drive chassis mated to a 2.8-liter V6 equipped with a twin-scroll turbo cranking out 325 horsepower and 400Nm [...]
Police Insignia
GM’s UK Special Vehicles division designed the all-new police specification version of the Vauxhall Insignia. The new police Insignia will available with all body styles – sedan, liftback and the Sports Tourer estate (look at pictures). Police car will equipped with 2.0-litre 220HP turbo or a 2.8-litre 260HP petrol engine and all-wheel drive, or a [...]
100,000 orders for the Insignia
According to german Opel, more than 100 000 orders have been received for the Opel Insignia. As we know, Opel Insignia was crowned Europe’s “Car of the Year 2009“.
“The Insignia is showing very good conquest potential, all the way to customers of classic premium brands,” says Alain Visser, Vice President Opel at General Motors [...]