General Motors Cancels Sale with Magna and Russian Sberbank and Decides to Keep Opel

General Motors nowadays announced that the group’s Board of Directors decided to cancel the sale of Opel to a Russian-backed group led by Magna and keep it under control.

The U.S. automaker said that it took this certitude because of an “improving custom environment for GM over the older few months” as well as the importance of the Opel/Vauxhall brands to the firm’s universal approach. GM‘s president and CEO Fritz Henderson said in a primed statement that the company will portray its restructuring idea for its European section to Germany and other governments and hopes for its favorable consideration. The U.S. automaker expects that the restructuring of Opel will price around €3 billion, or about $4.4 billion at today’s switch rates.

New Opel Insignia OPC Sports Tourer Unveiled (details, photos and video)

GM has unveiled the fastest ever Vauxhall Insignia VXR Sports Tourer ( Opel Insignia OPC Sports Tourer). Over 10,000 kilometres of testing was done to make solid the VXR Sports Tourer not only gets to grip with reliability very easily but that it performs past any customary estate when it comes to dynamics. Part of its broad schooling was done at the Nurburgring Nordschleife where our spies snapped it a the period.

It’s the first Vauxhall to use and Adaptive 4×4 system with an electronic narrow blunder differential. To recover handling farther the car sits 10mm sink than the colors Insignia Sports Tourer. In expected embellish it gets 19-shuffle alloys but there are 20s presented at an farther rate. Brembo has supplied the colour-hinted brakes that are fitted.

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New 2010 Opel Astra Revealed (details + photos)

New 2010 Opel Astra fully revealed until its World premiere at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. The 6th generation Astra Insignia-inspired 5-door hatchback is based on GM’s new Delta platform that also underpins the Chevy Volt and Cruze models. New Astra comes with a new set of engines with 1.4-liter and 1.6-liter turbocharged gasoline units.

UPDATED: with video 2010 Opel Astra in action

The 2010 Astra features a new design and it will be a head turner. It’s up to court and neat looks mingle a silky and athletic sculpt with the newest Opel styling cues such as the characteristic scalloped plane blades and the Insignia-inspired headlights. Opel has not disclosed any photos of the new Astra‘s interior yet, but supposedly it will be like in the Insignia.

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New Opel Ampera Revealed: First official image

The first official image of the new Opel Ampera has revealed. The car is destined to be the European styled Chevrolet Volt provided by GM. The new Ampera as it will be debuting on March 3rd at the Geneva Motor Show and planned for launch in Europe in 2011.

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The new Ampera is a 5-door, 4-seat hatch powered by GM’s Voltec bung-in cross scheme and is said to have a scale of 60 km running only on the lithium-ion string. An interior combustion engine acts as a generator to re-charge the batteries which GM/Opel claims will give the car an impressive complete span of 500 km. The Ampera’s string can be re-exciting through any 230 volt electrical means.

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First spy photos of new Opel Ampera Uncovered

Fisrt spy photos of the new GM’s Opel Ampera electric vehicle leaked into the web  ahead it’s world debut at Geneva Motor Show pressure conference on March 3 .

The first design sketches of the Ampera, which is the Euro-market type of the Chevrolet Volt advertise-in mixture, leaked to the web just yesterday. The Ampera prototype immovable in photos looks production-ready and it’s feasible this pallid car is in the means of being shot for the squash kit. The styling, a merger of the Insignia sedan and Flextreme notion car, is obviously analogous to that of the laptop-rendered picture, although the actual car shows a deeper chin spoiler and a taller body than the mean sketch. While the car in the sketches looks like a four-door sedan, the production Ampera will be a five-door.

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New 2010 Opel Astra Spied without Camouflage

The all-new Opel / Vauxhall Astra was spied totaly undisguised. The spy shot gives us a fair vista of the Astra’s profile helpful minutiae like the mold of the windows and the roofline, the taillights and the concave growing on the doors.

Under the hood, the new Opel Astra gets GM’s newest front-turn-chauffeur Delta platform which is also worn on the Chevrolet Cruze and Volt. Power will come from an ample extent of diesel and gasoline powertrains, with GM‘s all-new 1.4-liter turbocharged petrol engine that will be presented with outputs ranging from 120 hp to 140 hp and torque values of 175 to 200 Nm. Opel claims that this group will save an approximate 8% improvement in fuel consumption compared to the easily aspirated 1.6 and 1.8-liter engines that it will trade.

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All-new 2010 Chevrolet Spark Revealed (details and photos)

General Motors reveals first photos of the all-new Chevrolet Spark minicar, which would debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month and go on sale in the United States by 2011.

The five-door minicar will be sold as a global genre and will replace the tide Matiz. It would first go on auction in South Korea and Europe early next year, and will slowly be rolled out across other markets. At launch, there will be the variety of two four-cylinder petrol engines displacing 1.0 and 1.2L respectively. No independent tough has been conducted but the Spark is likely to normal 40mpg (5.88L/100km) in fuel-nation.

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New Opel Ampera Electric car teased ahead of Geneva Motor Show

General Motors announced Opel Ampera electric car which based at electric propulsion technology, called Voltec, that allows the car to run exclusively on lithium-ion string nation emotional via a model 230v exit for up to 60 km (37 miles). For longer distances, the car will stay to drive on electricity a small home combustion generated that engine. The new Ampera will be revealed at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show in March.

“With the Ampera, Opel will be the first European automobile manufacturer to offer customers numerous hundred kilometers of non-prohibit thrilling energetic,” said Alain Visser, GM Europe Chief Marketing Officer.

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Barack Obama’s New Cadillac Presidential Limousine

Barack Obama a week before his Inauguration as the new president of the United States getting a new limousine provided by General Motors. The newest Cadillac Presidential Limousine is a completely new device, succeeding the DTS Presidential Limousine that debuted in 2004 and was worn by George Bush. Obama has been riding in a ‘greener’ Ford Escape Hybrid previously, after getting rid of a less environmentally-friendly Chrysler 300C.

UPDATED: Barack Obama’s Inaugural ride in Presidential Limousine (details and photo bellow)

However, as is the project with all presidential limos, Obama’s new added long party car comes with bulletproof glazing, unique run-absolute tires and of course, an immense bulk of body shell. Cadillac was commissioned to assemble this exclusive vehicle for the incoming US President and the GM call couldn’t be happier after completing the job in time.

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New 2010 Buick LaCrosse Officially Unveiled (photo and video)

Buick has officially unveiled the 2010 LaCrosse ahead of the 2009 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

The courtyard headlights styling of the fresh is no more as the new genre skin a modern outdoor with flowing shape and an elegant appearance. Staying rightful to the Invicta concept which debuted at the 2008 Beijing Auto Show, the car is “directly recognizable as a Buick, with its signature ‘sweep lance’ body-fringe styling, portholes inside the spirit line on the covering, and cascade fence” according to Ed Welburn, GM’s associate head of universal invent. The car is the significance of a strictly global struggle as designers from the United States and China worked hand in hand to create the LaCrosse’s dramatic outdoor.

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New 2010 Cadillac SRX Officially Revealed (photo+video)

The new 2010 Cadillac SRX has been officially revealed before the Detroit Auto Show. A mid-magnitude luxury crossover, the next generation SRX will be prominently displayed in Detroit.

Featuring a range between two different outspoken booster V6 engines, it seems Cadillac is a bit unsure what the honestly point of this vehicle is. On the one hand, Cadillac is claiming this SUV cross to be very fuel useful. In certainty, the SUV will get no better than 25 mpg on the highway, and poorer in the city.

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New 2010 Chevrolet Equinox Revealed Ahead of Detroit Auto Show (detais and video)

The all-new 2010 Chevrolet Equinox builds on the previous model with more of what segment buyers are looking for across pretty much every aspect. Better interior, better styling, better engines, better transmissions and smarter features.

You can bet GM will be trumpeting from the heavens the new Equinox’s 30 MPG highway rating when optioned with the lead insertion 2.4 liter four cylinder and pattern six velocity transmission, but we’ve seen the little SUV in the sheetmetal and we’re cheerful to say the Equinox isn’t just a fuel reduction chart. GM plans to unveil 2010 Chevy Equinox and some new products at next month’s Detroit Auto Show.

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2009 Pontiac G3 Officialy Revealed for U.S. Market

Pontiac has announced that all-new G3 will be headedto the United States as a 2009 model year five-door hatchback. First revealed as the Pontiac Wave5 prior this year for the Canadian auto market, the G3 is essentially a repackaged Daewoo Gentra, Holden Barina or Chevrolet Aveo5.

Consistent with the sport oriented Pontiac mark, the G3 is taxing active attire, however, the G3 simultaneously fills an additional stain in Pontiac’s “over 30 mpg” smash which already includes the 2009 Vibe (32 mpg), 2009 G6 sedan (33 mpg) and G5 coupe (37 mpg) models. The G3 has a 106 horsepower (79 kW) 1.6L Ecotec four-cylinder engine which is mated to a five-velocity physical or optional four-hurry mandatory transmission.

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