General Motors has given another sign of its commitment to turning around the sales performance at Opel by announcing today it will invest a further 4 billion euros (approximately $5.2 billion) in the struggling European automaker. The investment, which will span the next four years, is designed to...
In March of this year, General Motors and France’s PSA Peugeot Citroen Group, two companies faced with overcapacity issues in Europe, surprised the automotive world by... December 20, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Opel, General Motors’ loss-making European division, is attempting to build excitement for its new Adam minicar by announcing a new one-make racing series. Called the... November 22, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Following their initial alliance announcement made in March of this year, the heads of General Motors and France’s PSA Peugeot Citroen have announced an update on the... October 24, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Though it wasn’t at the recent Paris Auto Show, as we had expected, Opel’s new Astra convertible, the Cascada, has been revealed in full today and is confirmed... October 17, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
In March of this year General Motors made the surprise move of forming an alliance with PSA Peugeot Citroen by purchasing seven percent of the French automaker’s stock... October 15, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Buick’s mid-size Sport Wagon looks set for a revival courtesy of the Opel Insignia Sports Tourer sold overseas. Yes, the planned update for the Buick Regal looks to be... September 17, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
A prototype of an updated Buick Regal has been spotted testing in Europe alongside the car’s European twin, the Opel Insignia. The blacked-out waterfall grille gives... September 13, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
We’ve been spying prototypes of the convertible version of the Opel Astra for almost a year, and now we’re just a few weeks out from the car’s debut at the... September 5, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
GM’s European division Opel is working on a new convertible version of its popular Astra compact, a prototype of which has been spotted in Southern Spain looking almost... August 31, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Last year Opel released a teaser image of a new convertible version of its latest-generation Astra, and now, almost a year on, we have a fresh set of spy shots of the car... August 22, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
A masked prototype of the Buick Regal’s European twin, the Opel Insignia, has been testing in Europe for the past several months, suggesting that an update for the car... August 9, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Just two weeks after Opel CEO Karl-Friedrich Stracke announced his resignation from the top job, David Lyon, Opel’s recently appointed head designer has reportedly... July 31, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Providing Opel escapes its current financial troubles, could the company eventually launch a model beyond its current range-topper, the mid-size Insignia? According to latest... July 24, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Opel has announced that Thomas Sedran, one of the struggling automaker’s strategy heads and chief of operations, will serve as interim chairman until a permanent... July 18, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
This year Opel turns 150, but the company has very little to celebrate, with news emerging overnight that Karl-Friedrich Stracke, president of General Motors Europe and the... July 13, 2012 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran