Comments on: 2009 Opel Insignia OPC spied and rendered

By: leonardo santos

leonardo santos — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:05:31 +0000

Muito bonito o automovel, merece motor 2.5 bi turbo. 0 a 100 km/h alguns sequndos. 270 km/h.

By: Enzo

Enzo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:28:09 +0000

is there any more news on weather holden will bring the insigna to au shores?

By: MisterTwo

MisterTwo — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:47:04 +0000

^GM Europe sells the old Daewoo (and new Daewoo) stuff as Chevrolets thus keeping their reputation in tact. The Matiz, Aveo (Barina), Lacetti (Viva), Tacuma (horrid looking 5 seat “people carrier”), Epica and Captiva are all badged Chevrolet. Vauxhall continues with Agila (sub Barina sized), Corsa, Meriva, Tigra, Astra, Zafira, Insignia, Antara (Captiva MaXX) and VXR8 (HSV R8). Europe is a totally different market now from a few years ago when the main manufacturers got fid of their large cars as they could not compete with BMW/Mercedes and Audi. Up until then Ford had the Scorpio, Vauxhall the Omega (on which the last Commodore was based) and Rover the 800 which was replaced by the smaller 75.

By: BrisVegas

BrisVegas — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:39:26 +0000

The Insignia looks very good. The Mondeo/6/Liberty/Accord midsize market is pretty crowded already, but Holden has nothing (the Epica is complete garbage) worth comparing to the benchmarks yet, so I think the Insignia is needed.

IMHO, Holden should spin-off a cheaper “lifestyle” brand to sell the Cruze, Epica, Captiva stuff as they’re not in the same league as the Vauxhal/Opel cars.

By: Bret

Bret — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:42:53 +0000

Shak,
All of the artists impressions are meant to throw the public off the fact that Holden will build the GMDAT designed Cuze.
Holden did the design work on the 3 door hatch version – maybe they will only be building that here and importing the 5 door from Korea?

Reuss IS on record as saying that the Aus built Cruze will be virtually identical, inside and out, to the Korean built version

By: Harley Stone

Harley Stone — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:06:23 +0000

@ Golfschwein
The FORD MONDEO is slightly bigger, especially the pax cabin got ore space.
In Europe the Insignia sells unexpectedly well. OPEL, as reported, got more than
75000 orders in the first 5 weeks.

By: UK

UK — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:05:37 +0000

Aussies really need HOLDEN INSIGNIA, right?
Well we already had Holden Epica, so no need to have Insignia. Because they are same size.

By: Wheelnut

Wheelnut — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:10:21 +0000

As we have seen with Fords announcement to stop production of the Falcons Inline 6 at Geelong then reverse the decison 3 months later.. some things can change pretty quickly in the Auto industry.

Therefore; whilst Holden have said they will be building the Cruze [Why?]- that could change because as Bret said Holden haven’t started installing the new Tooling for the Cruze yet – However; the tooling etc [for the JS Vectra] has all but been removed.

So an Aussie version of the Insignia [Torana] is still a possibility.
Who knows? Holden may be reading the positive comments about the Insignia and the not so Positive commetns about the Cruze on this site – thereby getting an ideaas to which car is likely to be more Popular

By: Shak

Shak — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:11:19 +0000

Bret if you watch Mark Reuss’s interview he doesnt mention that Holden will produce the Cruze only that they will produce a 4cyl small (aka Astra) sized car. Wheels feb issue has an artists impression of the proposed car. The cruze has been out for a while so why would they keep the design a sectret.

By: Bret

Bret — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:50:54 +0000

Poor buggers on the Assembly line accross the road have been told you get every second week off….and only half your pay.

What do you do? Eat half as much?

Better than no job at all I guess.

I’ve also heard that even though Holden are saying 3rd qtr 2010 there is still absolutely no sign of any tooling up yet to produce the Cruze, whereas the boys over in Geelong are well down the track to Focus production facilities.