Update: Additional images added to the 2010 Opel Insignia OPC / Vauxhaull Insignia VXR  gallery.  Click through to check them out.

When the Opel Isignia was revealed to the world, it was clear Opel had a winner on its hands.

Things only got better from there, with news that Opel’s high performance division, OPC or Opel Performance [...]

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Opel and Vauxhall have both had plans for some time now to unleash a hot version of the award-winning Opel Insignia on the European markets, but with both companies currently fighting for their lives, you’d be forgiven if you thought the project had fallen by the wayside.

But it seems you’d be wrong.  Spanish auto site [...]

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Opel’s tuning division OPC has put the iron to the Insignia, if evo magazine’s spy shot of a performance-tuned version is anything to go by.

While specific details are thin on the ground, the performance version of Europe’s Car of the Year will supposedly make 238kW from its 2.8-litre twin-turbo V6, sent to the ground via [...]

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With HSV having capped its W427 program at 200 units, reports indicate that Holden’s performance division is now looking at introducing a new ‘halo’ model to take its place. Little is known of the proposed vehicle’s details, but if our information is accurate then HSV will be looking to price the range topper at the [...]

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Vauxhall, GM’s British subsidiary, has been kind enough to release a trio of teaser images of its all-new Astra, well ahead of the official launch at next years Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Both the five-door and three-door models are shown, in black and white respectively, and while the images provided are fairly low on [...]

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There were rumours a while back that Saab would be tackling increasing emissions restrictions by moving to smaller displacement engines. It looks like there’s some truth to that. Recent reports indicate that the next Saab 9-5 will offer an engine as small as 1.6 litres, turbo-charged of course, in an effort to comply with both emissions standards [...]

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