Category Archives: Opel
- June 23, 2009
- VW vs. Opel :)) Invention from Romania– also posted in Volkswagen
- February 20, 2008
- Hybrids, meet your rival – it gets 376.59 mpg
Finally something to wipe the smug off you hybrid owners, you high-mileage acolytes, you global-cooling zealots who wash your Priuses (Prii?) with graywater while wearing reclaimed plastic fleece and hemp undies.
Don’t choke on your organic soy-double-decaf-fair-trade-carbon-neutral macchiato, but how does 376.59 miles per gallon sound? Makes your Honda Civic hybrid look Hummeresque, doesn’t it?
That number [...]
- December 3, 2007
- GM not going after VW, Toyota’s minicars– also posted in General Motors, Toyota, Volkswagen
General Motors’ European arm has decided that it won’t jump feet-first into the micro-car segment with Smart, and more recently Toyota and Volkswagen. Speaking with Automotive News Europe, GM’s Euro-veep Carl-Peter Forster said that, “These specialized urban vehicles have a limited market.”
True enough, but it’s a market that stands to go through a growth spurt [...]
- November 27, 2007
- 2007 Class of The World’s Most Beautiful Automobiles– also posted in Aston Martin, Audi, BMW, Lamborghini, Lexus, Maserati, Mazda, Mercedes, Nissan, Peugeot, Renault, Supercars, Volvo
The Lamborghini Reventón has been named L’Automobile più Bella del Mondo. Translation: The World’s Most Beautiful Automobile.
It earned this honor in the Special Models category of this annual automotive fashion show, recently held for the fifteenth time at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, Italy.
There are eleven categories in all, though the Special Models category is [...]
- June 8, 2007
- Rendered Speculation: Chevy/Opel cute ‘ute– also posted in Chevrolet
So far, General Motors has been taking a measured approach with crossover vehicles. The General has recently rolled out the seven-to-eight-seat Lambda-based Saturn Outlook, GMC Acadia and Buick Enclave to join its smaller Chevy Equinox, Pontiac Torrent and Saturn VUE. Now we’re hearing from the folks over at Motor Authority that an even smaller CUV [...]
