Opel brings back the Frontera as a hybrid or EV

April 9, 2024/9.48

Opel replaces one of the last models dating back to the GM days, the first-gen Peugeot 2008-based Crossland, with a sharp, chunkier crossover […]

Your turn to test-drive the new Opels

November 17, 2022/10.42

From this weekend, it’s over to the public to sample the new Opels, as the Corsa and Mokka reach Armstrong’s in Lower Hutt […]

Opel returns to New Zealand with electrified entries in every model line

March 24, 2022/0.03

If you’re a curious soul like me, you’d have stumbled across the opel.co.nz website a few days ago, and realized that was the German brand being teased to press, something that was officially announced today to New Zealand motoring journalists. The clue wasn’t so much in the ‘modern German’ mention in the teaser, but […]

Holden’s New Zealand dealers launch the 2018 Commodore

March 23, 2018/8.57

Above, from top: Johnston Ebbett on Taranaki Street, Wellington. Looking very modern: the base model Holden Commodore LT. For the lifestyle buyer, the Holden Commodore Calais V Tourer, with 320 PS. The potent Holden Commodore VXR, which originally joined us on the media launch. The Holden Commodore, for which Lucire attended the media launch earlier […]

Opel previews Insignia B, with clues to next Holden Commodore and Buick Regal

December 7, 2016/1.07

GM has shown official photographs of the Opel Insignia B, which will be sold in the UK as a Vauxhall and Australasia as the Holden Commodore. Opel has focused on making the new Insignia more efficient, and it has completely reinterpreted how a sporty, large car should look. The new large car boasts a Cd […]

Olly Murs is Top Gear’s next Star in a Reasonably Priced Car

February 19, 2015/12.23

BBC Essex-born singer-songwriter Olly Murs is Top Gear’s next Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, with the BBC releasing photographs from next Sunday’s (February 22, 2015) episode. Murs is pictured along with the Stig, and behind the wheel of the red Vauxhall Astra that celebrities have been taking around the long-running TV show’s test […]

Ed Sheeran is Top Gear’s next Star in a Reasonably Priced Car: BBC releases photo

January 22, 2015/13.34

West Yorkshire-born singer–songwriter Ed Sheeran, 23, is the next celebrity to appear on BBC2’s Top Gear. Sheeran will be the long-running show’s Star in a Reasonably Priced Car in the next episode to air in the UK on Sunday, January 25. Sheeran, who does not have a driving licence, piloted the Vauxhall Astra […]

Opel Corsa E breaks cover, as GM releases official details

July 9, 2014/7.37

GM has released details of its fifth-generation Opel Corsa (Vauxhall Corsa Mk IV in the UK), promising that the new model will set benchmarks for its class. It will have to: it joins a talented segment with cars such as the Ford Fiesta, Renault Clio, Honda Fit, Toyota Vitz and Peugeot 208. The […]

Erin O’Connor launches UK version of Chevy Volt, the Vauxhall Ampera

July 1, 2010/10.00

Vauxhall Vauxhall, GM’s British brand, launched its version of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in electric hybrid at Chelsea Bridge on June 29, with model Erin O’Connor wearing an electric dress designed by William Tempest. O’Connor’s dress features over 1,000 lights and Swarovski crystals. It was tailored to her ﬁgure. The dress’s panelled styling, says Vauxhall, […]

Opel Astra to Bentley Mulsanne: new metal at the IAA

September 18, 2009/23.38

Ferrari wasn’t the only one making a big splash at IAA, the Frankfurt Motor Show. BMW ofﬁcially premièred its X1 (which had already appeared in German TV show Alarm für Cobra 11 two weeks before) and its 5er Gran Turismo—a hatchback version of the 5, if we had to be crude—with chairman of the board […]