Opel Insignia OPC "nuevas Fotos Espa Desde Espaa"

by Robert Farago

March 19th, 2009 10:04 AM

opel insignia opc nuevas fotos espa desde espaa

Yes, in the midst of the GM – Opel divorce, the tell-me-why-we-went-upmarket-again Insignia turbo six has appeared on our favorite Spanish auto blog Motorpasion (hola amigos!). I could summarize their info, but I know that our Best and Brightest are a multilingual mob—or at least] listened to Dora the Explorer way too many times. So here’s the quatro uno uno from la boca de caballo. But remember: these are spy shots. No digas ni mu or ni pío de esto.

Es una pena que nuestro lector Daerox no haya podido acercarse algo más a esta unidad del Opel Insgnia OPC, ya que hubiesemos podido verlo con total claridad, puesto que iba totalmente desnudo al ser el protagonista de un reportaje fotográfico.

Pero menos da una piedra y ya que en la presentación privada sólo pudimos ver su frontal, ahora, aunque en la imagen se vea algo pequeño, también podemos ver su trasera, que presenta un nuevo paragolpes con lo que parece un pequeño difusor, flanqueado por una salida de escape a cada lado.

La información oficial todavía está por revelar, así que todos los datos son meras especulaciones, pero recordemos que se hablaba de un motor V6 Twin-Turbo de 320 CV con los que plantar cara a rivales como el Volkswagen Passat R36 o el Audi S4 [s]RS4[/s]. De momento, apunta maneras con esa tracción integral y unas vías más anchas. Y por que no, con una estética muy bien conseguida.

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Redwood on Mar 20, 2009

This car is gorgeous. I hope GM brings it over here in a similar form, and hopefully with AWD. I'm never going to own a FWD sedan if I can help it.

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Joeaverage on Mar 28, 2009

I too am watching the Opel-Saturn thing unfold too. They should have planned ahead and sold the Insignia here as the Aura (or just skipped the whole rebadge thing). Of course they might need to build it here to actually profit from it. Dunno why they don't promote their Saturn products better and build some of the Opels in the USA (or Mexico at least) so they can profit from these nice products they sell everywhere else. Imagine an Astra or Insignia wagon. Yeah...

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