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Late last week, we brought you the first details of Opel’s new Insignia mid size sedan. With its styling winning friends across the web it now seems appropriate to bring you the official video.

Potentially the next Holden Vectra, the Insignia is set to go on sale in the UK in November this year, following a public appearance at the London Motor Show in July. Stunning on the outside, will the Insignia have what it takes to win over the likes of Jeremy Clarkson and his distaste for the mid-size Vauxhall front-wheel-driver?
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Earlier this year, GM revealed three concept mini cars, the Beat, the Groove and the Trax. The wacky styling of the Beat in particular certainly had tongues wagging at the time. That was back in April and GM set-up an online poll at the time that asked the public to choose which of the three should go into production.
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Kia is ‘going green’ with their 2009 European product line-up by producing an ‘eco’ version of their new cee’d. Based largely on the eco_cee’d concept car that Kia unveiled at the recent Frankfurt Motor Show the aim is to achieve better fuel consumption, with fewer emissions while offering an enjoyable driving experience.
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This time its Saab’s turn to feel the pain, as three new images of Saab’s Turbo X hit the net just shy of its official Frankfurt Motor Show unveiling.

The Saab Turbo X is the tasty little limited edition Swedish hot-rod that Saab will be using to introduce their new XWD Haldex AWD system. The trick XWD system is capable of splitting the Turbo X’s drive front to rear and side to side care of a new electronic limited slip differential.

According to the folks over at Trollhattan Saab the new XWD system is so effective the Turbo X has outrun Porsche’s 911 Turbo on a slalom course during testing – a feat not to be sneezed at.

Although official details of the Turbo X have not yet been released by Saab, we do know that it will feature a 2.8-litre V6 developing 209kW/280hp and 400Nm endowing the Turbo X with enough mumbo to rocket it from 0-100 km/h (62mph) in 5.7 seconds. Trollhatten Saab believe that the Turbo X will be a manual transmission only affair.

Saab will be limiting production to 2000 units.

Images are courtesy of trollhattensaab.net and if Saabs are your poison I can thoroughly recommend a visit to their site. What these guys don’t know about Saab’s isn’t worth knowing.

Steane

[Source: Trollhatten Saab]