Opel Insignia (2008)

The new Opel Insignia, a saloon with bodywork 4 and 5-door, will be sold starting in November 2008. It may be for the first time in the Chamber of Automobile London on July 22.

It measures 4.83 meters in length, 22 cm more than the Vectra model that replaces and is also sold with bodywork 4 and 5-door, in addition to a family. This new model of Opel premiered the new Epsilon platform 2 and will be available in versions with front-wheel drive car with traction total.

The range of engines will consist of seven variants, four petrol and three diesel, although not km77.com we are confident will reach all to Spain. Soon we will be able to confirm this aspect.

The smallest of the four petrol engines will be a four-cylinder 115 hp and the largest one of six cylinders in V-260 hp. According to Opel, Diesel engines are new, all of 2.0 liter engine. The minor will have an output of 110 hp and more than 160 hp. For later, Opel announced the arrival of another engine versions called ECOflex with low CO2 emissions, and also some more powerful version.

The Insignia will be offered with adaptive lighting. According to Opel, has nine different settings of the light beam. It will also lead light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for lighting daytime.

The Insignia is developed from the Opel GTC Concept prototype, which measures just 4,830 mm long, 1,867 mm wide and 1,432 mm high. The coefficient of drag prototype is 0.25. Like the prototype and other models of Opel, Insignia operates a system that combines the control of stability with the buffer variable hardness (Opel is called IDS + models that have atualmente).

Opel has not yet provided any information on the equipment of Insignia, it is too early to know whether bear some of the elements of hardware that includes the GTC Concept, like the parking system to facilitate on-line hard drive, parking brake programmer speed automatic or active.

What is known is that the new Insignia take ambient light red, which will also include other models of Opel, according to the manufacturer.