http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/shared/handlers/rsshandler.ashx?N=669+190&Ns=P_Publication_Date|1CAR Online | News | Vauxhall/Opel RSS Feed(c) 2013, Bauer Media. All rights reserved.30This is the new HSV GTS: all 577bhp of it. The V8-powered supersaloon has had a supercharger bolted onto its 430bhp engine, taking power from BMW M3 levels to the same poke as a Mercedes E63 AMG S. Plus, there's...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/HSV-GTSVauxhall-VXR8-2013-first-pictures-of-new-Aussie-M5/Tue, 14 May 2013 16:01:00 GMTNewsThis is Vauxhall's most powerful estate car ever: the VXR8 Tourer. Based on the Australian market's outgoing HSV Commodore R8 Tourer, the VXR8 uses a previous-gen Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine to lug along the biggest loadspace in its class. Is this...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-VXR8-Tourer-2013-first-official-pictures/Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:50:00 GMTNewsVauxhall/Opel has built its new Adam city car around the idea of chic street-cred, but it's now given the Mini Cooper rival a healthy dose of motorsport pedigree as well. An international rally series is being readied for the Adam, where competitors...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Opel-takes-Adam-racing-2012-first-official-pictures/Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:31:00 GMTNewsWant a car christened ‘Supersport’ but can’t stretch to a Bugatti Veyron, Bentley Continental or Jaguar XJ? In that case, this 170mph Vauxhall might be of interest. This is the Insignia VXR Supersport, a speed-derestricted version of the hot saloon, and it...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Insignia-VXR-Supersport-2012-first-pictures/Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:01:00 GMTNewsVauxhall today confirmed it will launch a new convertible called Cascada in 2013. Although based on the running gear, it's actually longer than an Audi A5 Convertible – launching Vauxhall and Opel back into the full-size cabrio market for the...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Cascada-2012---first-photos-of-new-cabrio/Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:01:00 GMTNewsThis is the brand new Vauxhall Adam, a highly-customisable city car that Vauxhall hopes will challenge the established premium superminis, like the Mini, Audi A1, Citroen DS3 and Fiat 500. But what's the thinking behind calling this Vauxhall 'Adam'? Try...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Adam-2013-first-official-pictures/Wed, 11 Jul 2012 01:01:00 GMTNewsVauxhall has treated its strong-selling Astra range to a minor facelift, and plumbed a 192bhp twin-turbo diesel motor into the GTC three-door model. The revisions will complement the new Astra VXR flagship, which goes on sale this month. Vauxhall Astra...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Astra-facelift-2012-first-official-pictures/Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:01:00 GMTNewsVauxhall has revealed the name for its new city car – the car previously dubbed Junior will in fact be called the Adam. It’s one of the more oddball car names we’ve heard recently. As well as announcing the Adam...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-calls-its-new-city-car-the-Adam/Tue, 08 May 2012 13:25:00 GMTNewsVauxhall and Opel will announce the name of its new city car - codenamed Junior and bound to replace the Agila - next week. It has issued an unusual comic strip announcing the fact that the Vauxhall Junior's name will...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Junior---the-name-will-be-announced-on-8-May-/Fri, 04 May 2012 11:37:00 GMTNewsThe Opel/Vauxhall Ampera has been crowned European Car of the Year for 2012. The winner was announced today at a ceremony at the 2012 Geneva motor show. The votes of the 59 jurors from 23 European countries ranked the Ampera first, from a...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/VauxhallOpel-Ampera-crowned-2012-European-Car-of-the-Year/Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:30:00 GMTNewsThis is the Vauxhall Mokka, a B-segment SUV that will be revealed at the 2012 Geneva motor show this March.  So the Vauxhall Mokka isn’t a move into the hotly contested hot drinks market? Err, no. Instead it’s a Vauxhall...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Mokka-2012-first-official-pictures/Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMTNewsThis is the new Vauxhall Astra VXR, a hot hatch from Luton offering the power of a Ford Focus RS for the price of a Ford Focus ST. Just how powerful is the new Vauxhall Astra VXR? A direct injection...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Astra-VXR-2011-first-official-pictures/Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:00:00 GMTNewsVauxhall's new convertible will not be the Astra cabriolet, CAR has learned. Instead the new Astra-based convertible will be positioned as a separate, standalone model like Volkswagen's Eos. The new mid-sized Vauxhall/Opel convertible will be launched in 2012. Expect to...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/Vauxhalls-2012-Astra-cab-to-be-standalone-convertible/Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:14:00 GMTNewsAlongside the Astra GTC and Zafira Tourer, Vauxhall (and thus Opel) is unveiling something a little more ‘out there’ at the 2011 Frankfurt motor show. It’s this tiny city car, known by Vauxhall as RAK e, and which we’re going to...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Rake-EV-concept-2011-at-the-Frankfurt-motor-show/Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:45:00 GMTNewsAlongside the Astra GTC and Zafira Tourer, Vauxhall (and thus Opel) is unveiling something a little more ‘out there’ at the 2011 Frankfurt motor show. It’s this tiny city car, which won’t have a name until the official unveiling next week....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhalls-new-two-seat-EV-city-car/Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:01:00 GMTNewsGM chief executive Dan Akerson has overnight dismissed claims that its Vauxhall/Opel European division is for sale. CAR's European editor Georg Kacher, and media outlets in Germany, reported last month that German chancellor Angela Merkel had weighed in to the...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/Vauxhall-and-Opel-not-for-sale---CEO-Akerson/Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:06:00 GMTNewsHumanity might struggle perpetually with questions like the meaning of life, but it does know one thing for sure: rear engine cars are bad. Like a sling shot, the heavy engine at the back is always trying to overtake the...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Motoring-issues/The-Porsche-911-The-car-that-shouldnt-work-but-does-Part-1/Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:02:00 GMTNewsGM is considering selling its loss-making European operations, it emerged tonight. If it goes ahead and severs ties with GM Europe, the General would cede control of Vauxhall and Opel, the second biggest car brand in the UK.And in another...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/VW-and-Chinese-in-talks-to-buy-VauxhallOpel-from-GM/Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:30:00 GMTNewsThis is the Vauxhall Astra GTC, Luton's new three-door rival for the Renault Megane and VW Scirocco. It's an important car for GM, expected to take up to 20% of all Astra orders, and the UK is traditionally the biggest market...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Astra-GTC-2011-official-pictures-and-details/Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:01:00 GMTNewsIt’s not the new Vauxhall Zafira, it’s the new Vauxhall Zafira Tourer. Why the new name? Because the current Zafira will continue to be sold alongside the new Zafira Tourer, which lands in UK showrooms in early 2012. Vauxhall claims its new MPV...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Zafira-Tourer-2011-first-official-pictures/Wed, 18 May 2011 01:01:00 GMTNewsThis is the Vauxhall Astra GTC, a sleek three-door version of the Vauxhall’s family hatch. Unveiled in these rendered images, it looks almost identical to the sharp GTC Paris concept that Vauxhall revealed at the 2010 Paris motor show. How...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Astra-GTC-2011-first-official-pictures/Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:00:00 GMTNewsVauxhall has rummaged around the kitchen cupboard and poured a healthy dollop of chilli into the mix for its new Corsa VXR Nürburgring Edition. It's our first look at the new special edition Corsa hot hatch, which goes on sale...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Corsa-Nurburgring-Edition-2011-first-pictures/Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:48:00 GMTNewsVauxhall has put away the hologram projector and sent us proper photos of the Zafira Tourer concept, prior to its debut at the 2011 Geneva motor show 2011 Vauxhall Zafira Tourer Concept - what's inside Vauxhall has sought to create...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Zafira-Tourer-concept-2011-official-pictures/Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:12:00 GMTNewsVauxhall has provided us with a first, strange glimpse of the Zafira Tourer Concept, set to debut at the 2011 Geneva motor show. Yep, that's a hologram of the new 2012 Vauxhall/Opel Zafira. Vauxhall Zafira Tourer Concept: details, please? More information...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Zafira-Tourer-Concept-2011-first-official-pictures/Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:41:00 GMTNewsVauxhall has revealed its new 2011 VXR8. These first official pictures of the VXR8 show an edgier and more aggressive look over the model it replaces. But it's way more expensive, too. It's almost £15,000 pricier than the previous-generation VXR8,...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-VXR8-2011-first-official-pictures/Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:01:00 GMTNewsVauxhall's Antara has had a mid-life crisis. Sorry, we mean facelift. There's a new look - and a £3000 price cut. Yes, the newly fettled 2011 Antara goes on sale in December 2010 and it's nearly £3k cheaper than the previous model, with...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Antara-2010-first-official-pics/Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:20:00 GMTNewsVauxhall has today issued the first pictures of the new, facelifted-for-2011 Corsa supermini. There's a dash of Insignia flair at the front, but very little else changes on the revised Vauxhall Corsa. The new nose of the 2011 Corsa finally ditches...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Corsa---first-photos-of-the-2011-facelift/Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:01:00 GMTNewsVauxhall-Opel has frozen the design of an upmarket small car, to rival BMW’s Mini and the Fiat 500. Codenamed Junior, the 3.7m-long three-door is two years from production. Based on a shortened Corsa platform, Junior will supplement the utilitarian Agila and...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/Vauxhall-Opel-Junior-a-Mini-rival-for-2013/Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:07:00 GMTNewsThis rather lovely red beauty is the Vauxhall GTC Paris concept, and our first look at how 2011’s new three-door Astra will look. But you know that because Vauxhall released the first pictures of this car back in early September...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-GTC-Paris-concept-2010-first-pictures/Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:01:00 GMTNewsThe 2010 Mondial de l’Automobile – aka Paris motor show 2010 – is set to be the launchbed for a bevy of new models from the Vauxhall stable. The Paris show will see Vauxhall launch a three-door Astra GTC Paris...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-reveals-its-line-up-for-2010-Paris-motor-show/Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:01:00 GMTNewsVauxhall has slid the covers off the new Astra Sports Tourer – a mini-me, shrunken Insignia estate for less money. The two share plenty of character and were both penned under GM Europe's design boss, Mark Adams.Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer:...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Astra-Sports-Tourer-estate-2010-unveiled/Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:01:00 GMTNewsVauxhall and Opel are developing a successor to the swoopy Calibra coupé – and it could be on sale as soon as 2013.Conceived as a bolt-on to the Insignia family, the new two-door is known inhouse as 'New Calibra', leaving...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/Vauxhall-Calibra-Mk2-news-of-the-2013-successor/Wed, 19 May 2010 12:54:00 GMTNewsGM has shown off its oddball EN-V – a Segway style electric vehicle imagined for 20 years hence – in China. EN-V stands for Electric Networked Vehicle and is an urban mobility solution to keep pedestrians moving in busy cities...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/GMs-new-EN-V-electric-car-unveiled-2010/Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:06:00 GMTNewsGeneral Motors' 78-year-old product chief Bob Lutz (insert 'car tsar', 'car guy', 'Maximum Bob' cliché here) announced his retirement shortly after the 2010 Geneva motor show. CAR Online caught up with Maximum Bob to hear of his thoughts on the...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/CAR-interviews-the-retiring-Bob-Lutz/Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:34:00 GMTNewsThis is the Opel Flextreme GT/E, a new concept that Vauxhall’s sister brand will unveil at the 2010 Geneva motor show next month. It’s Vauxhall/Opel’s second Flextreme show car – the original was revealed at the 2007 Frankfurt show –...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/VauxhallOpel-Flextreme-GTE-concept-2010-first-pictures/Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:45:00 GMTNewsVauxhall has issued these first official photos inside the new 2010 Meriva mini-MPV. By swinging open its suicide doors (FlexDoors, in GMspeak), we're given our first peek inside ahead of the new Meriva's Geneva motor show debut.It's very Astra-like in...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Meriva-2010-first-interior-photos/Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:45:00 GMTNewsThe new Vauxhall Meriva is opening up entry to the suicide door club – previously the preserve of Rolls-Royces and Mazda sports cars. Unveiled today, the new Meriva mini-MPV premieres GM’s FlexDoor technology, designed to make it easier to climb...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Meriva-first-pictures/Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:01:00 GMTNewsHere's the Vauxhall take on the design project we've set them this Christmas: to design a Vauxhall-branded Santa's sleigh. The boffins at Vauxhall/Opel design HQ have come up with this – a development of the latest GM Europe form language...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-designed-Santas-sleigh-2009/Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:11:00 GMTNewsFollowing General Motors' back-track on a buy-out from Magna in November 2009, the company's president of international operations Nick Reilly was appointed interim head of GM Europe. Now he's been made the permanent CEO of Vauxhall and Opel, making him...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/New-GM-Europe-chiefs-plans-for-OpelVauxhall/Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:54:00 GMTNewsBlink and you'll miss it – but your accountant won't. The new 2010 model year Vauxhall Corsa has been nipped and tucked, tweaked and polished to produce an impressive average 13% fuel saving across the range.Five out of the six...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Corsa-gets-a-2010-eco-facelift/Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMTNewsGeneral Motors tonight surprised the world by pulling its proposed sale of its European division – Opel and Vauxhall – to Magna. In a dramatic U-turn, Detroit said 'an improving business environment for GM over the past few months' had...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/GM-cancels-Opel-Vauxhall-sale-to-Magna/Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:59:00 GMTNewsPrime minister Gordon Brown’s personal crusade to get Vauxhall's version of the Chevrolet Volt petrol-electric plug-in hybrid – the Ampera – built in Britain's Ellesmere Port factory in 2012 is a dream delayed, CAR can disclose today.News that the UK...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/Ellesmere-Port-wont-build-Ampera-for-at-least-five-years/Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:02:00 GMTNewsRichard Webber won a competition held by CAR and Vauxhall to take a CAR Online reader to Frankfurt. Here's his earlier report from the 2009 IAA - and you can now watch his video preview of the new 2010 Astra...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Motor-show--events/Frankfurt-Motor-Show/2009/Frankfurt-motor-show-revisited-a-CAR-readers-review-/Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:26:00 GMTNewsVauxhall’s new Insignia VXR is going to be one of the performance bargains of the year – the 321bhp feisty family car will cost £30,995 when sales start in autumn 2009. It’s aimed at the wired family man who values...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Insignia-VXR-2009-pricing-confirmed/Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:22:00 GMTNewsVauxhall has released the first interior pictures of the new sixth-generation Astra, showing that the inside of the five-door hatch has been heavily influenced by the bigger Insignia's. Talk me through the Vauxhall Astra's insides The architecture broadly follows that of...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Astra-2009-first-interior-photos/Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:15:00 GMTNewsGeneral Motors today faces the humiliation of collapsing into bankruptcy. It marks the 1 June deadline imposed by US president Barack Obama for the General to sort out its business – or seek protection from creditors in the bankruptcy courts....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/D-day-for-General-Motors-GM-prepares-for-bankruptcy/Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:57:00 GMTNewsCanadian parts giant Magna this afternoon struck an agreement in principle to buy stricken GM's European arm, Opel and Vauxhall. The agreement has not yet been confirmed publicly and is still in the early phase, but brings to an end...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/Magna-agrees-to-buy-GM-Europe-latest-news/Fri, 29 May 2009 20:31:00 GMTNewsThis is the third and final iteration of Vauxhall’s hot Insignia range, the VXR Sports Tourer, with a turbocharged 2.8-litre V6. Will the Vauxhall Insignia VXR make my dog feel sick? Definitely. The turbocharged 2.8-litre V6 produces 321bhp, enough for a...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Insignia-VXR-Sports-Tourer-2009-first-pictures/Wed, 20 May 2009 11:30:00 GMTNewsVauxhall and Opel today whisk the covers off the new Astra family hatchback. It’s the sixth-generation Astra and these first photographs suggest it’s adopting a slew of Insignia styling cues – but squashed down into a smaller, 4.4-metre long footprint....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Astra-2009-the-first-official-photos/Wed, 13 May 2009 00:01:00 GMTNewsVauxhall has announced its answer to the planet-conscious Volkswagen Passat Bluemotion – the Insignia Ecoflex. Essentially the Ecoflex is a 158bhp 2.0-litre CDTi Insignia, but an army of now-familiar C02-slashing improvements have been swung into action. What are these eco...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Vauxhall-Insignia-Ecoflex-2009-first-pictures/Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:20:00 GMTNews