Cars
One of the great mysteries of this year's Paris Motor Show is just how really new the fifth generation Opel (Vauxhall) Corsa is. It was supposed to be an all-new design based on GM's Global Small Vehicle ‘Gamma II’ platform when the project kicked off, but it ended up using the same SCCS platform (Small Common Components and Systems platform) found on the current car, which was jointly developed by Fiat and Opel. Read more »
- Scoop: 2014 Opel Corsa Receives A Touch Of Adam
Seven years is a very long time for a mainstream car to stay in the market these days, but much like Fiat and its Grande Punto-renamed-Punto, with which the current Corsa shares the same SCCS platform (co-developed by Fiat and General Motors), Opel is...
- Fiat-chrysler "willing" To Form An Alliance With Opel, Gm Says It's Not Interested
In 2000, General Motors and Fiat formed an alliance in which the American company gained 20 percent of the Italian manufacturer’s shares in exchange for 5.1 percent of its own stock. Among other projects, the two companies jointly developed the...
- Is This The 2012 Opel / Vauxhall Corsa Facelift?
We were tipped off this morning by an attentive reader from Chile about images of the facelifted Opel Corsa (Vauxhall in the UK) that were posted by a user on Opel's dedicated Facebook page. The back story is that the refreshed Corsa was found momentarily...
- Gm May Introduce Opel In Australia As Vw-rival And Stand Alone Brand
With Saab's recent sale to Spyker and the global financial crisis effectively killing plans to import the Cadillac CTS into Australia, GM Holden is contemplating adding Opel as a premium brand in order to go head-to-head with Volkswagen. In more...
- Offbeat: Vauxhall Corsa Roller Skates
Following in the... footsteps of its sister company Opel and its Agila high-heel shoes that were shown at an event in Amsterdam last year, Vauxhall unit has presented its own take on the car-theme shoe thingy with the release of the specially commissioned,...
Cars
Could the Almost New Opel / Vauxhall Corsa E End Up Looking Like This?
One of the great mysteries of this year's Paris Motor Show is just how really new the fifth generation Opel (Vauxhall) Corsa is. It was supposed to be an all-new design based on GM's Global Small Vehicle ‘Gamma II’ platform when the project kicked off, but it ended up using the same SCCS platform (Small Common Components and Systems platform) found on the current car, which was jointly developed by Fiat and Opel. Read more »
- Scoop: 2014 Opel Corsa Receives A Touch Of Adam
Seven years is a very long time for a mainstream car to stay in the market these days, but much like Fiat and its Grande Punto-renamed-Punto, with which the current Corsa shares the same SCCS platform (co-developed by Fiat and General Motors), Opel is...
- Fiat-chrysler "willing" To Form An Alliance With Opel, Gm Says It's Not Interested
In 2000, General Motors and Fiat formed an alliance in which the American company gained 20 percent of the Italian manufacturer’s shares in exchange for 5.1 percent of its own stock. Among other projects, the two companies jointly developed the...
- Is This The 2012 Opel / Vauxhall Corsa Facelift?
We were tipped off this morning by an attentive reader from Chile about images of the facelifted Opel Corsa (Vauxhall in the UK) that were posted by a user on Opel's dedicated Facebook page. The back story is that the refreshed Corsa was found momentarily...
- Gm May Introduce Opel In Australia As Vw-rival And Stand Alone Brand
With Saab's recent sale to Spyker and the global financial crisis effectively killing plans to import the Cadillac CTS into Australia, GM Holden is contemplating adding Opel as a premium brand in order to go head-to-head with Volkswagen. In more...
- Offbeat: Vauxhall Corsa Roller Skates
Following in the... footsteps of its sister company Opel and its Agila high-heel shoes that were shown at an event in Amsterdam last year, Vauxhall unit has presented its own take on the car-theme shoe thingy with the release of the specially commissioned,...