2011 Opel Astra Sports Tourer For Family

2011 Opel Astra Sports Tourer Turing

New Opel Astra four-door hatchback that is almost a year ago and now the Astra Sports Tourer, the second type of construction in the new Astra line-up.

2011 Opel Astra Sports Tourer Side

In contrast to the four-door hatchback, the style over substance places, the Sports Tourer is more of a clean car. The roof line goes in the rear seats just so rear passengers more headroom and radicals from the direction of the hatch, so that luggage. As the new Astra hatchback, still sports a stylish European wrapper.

2011 Opel Astra Sports Tourer Rear Side 1

2011 Opel Astra Sports Tourer Rear Side 2

If the Sports Tourer was developed to load as much as possible as efficiently as possible, the engineers took a lot of effort to provide optimum storage space. On the back of the boat is carefully designed to each odd that use difficult angle. In addition, a new “FlexFold” Back seat system has just flipped to the back seat. The system uses a spring mechanism that fires in one-touch automatic folding of the seat.

The biggest difference between the four-door saloon and Sports Tourer is the body style, like most of the pieces transferred from the hatch. The suspension of the convertible with largely unchanged good drivability and handling guarantee, but the rear suspension is calibrated to handle higher loads. An optional flex ride system functions such as Audi drive select allows the driver to select and a series from the Touring mode, standard and sport. Sport mode stiffens the suspension for better response and improved throttle and steering response. The Sports Tourer Opel Astra are also electronic trailer stability program to assist owners to pull the trailer.

The powertrain line-up captured the four-door hatchback, with a total of eight petrol and diesel engines. Power range of 95 hp in the Astra ecoFLEX with a fuel-efficient 1.3-liter turbo diesel 180 hp in the 1.6-liter turbocharged gasoline engine. A six-speed manual transmission is standard with an upshift indicator for each engine and a six-speed automatic transmission is most available.

Concept Car : The Opel Ampera hybrid on pure electric power 2011

The Opel Ampera will be a plug-in hybrid with a 65 km range on pure electric power Design Sketch

This project is the first Opel amps with permission of the loss of the "European Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), where documents are stored in nature.

Opel ampere is the European version of the Chevrolet Volt from GM Hybrid will go on sale next year, the North American market.

Measured against these pictures, it seems that are available to the project, the current Opel model amps and length of the keys to the new Insignia, which recently won the European Car of the Year.

Amplifiers are Voltec GM hybrid powered concept was seen in the last Cadillac approach, which debuted at the Detroit auto show in January. It has combined an electric motor with a gasoline engine used to charge the lithium-ion batteries. It is up to 40 miles (65 km), clean power and can be downloaded for about 2-3 hours at 230 V European standard. Use of gasoline as the generator is battery operated, Ampere range approximately 500 miles (or 800 km).

Ampere expected sales in 2011 and in Europe has its official debut at the Geneva Motor Show in Geneva next month .

Became known details about the Opel Meriva EV 2011

Opel has offered new details about the electric version of the Meriva EV, powered by an electric motor at 82 hp (60 kW), which can offer 215 Nm of torque. The car is equipped with a battery of 16 kWh, which offers a range distance of 64 km with a maximum speed of 130 km / h. Opel Meriva EV battery can be recharged from a standard wall outlet.

"Electric Meriva can become a full production car at the moment continues testing of all systems of the car" - the company says.

Opel Meriva EV is part of MeRegioMobil, which is focused on creating a car of the future.

New Car >> 2010 Opel GTC Paris Concept

At 4,46 m, GTC Paris, an ideal size for a compact, sporty car, but it still offers room for five passengers. Most of the iconic vehicles were taken from the parties. Many people may be the outline, two or three distinct lines. Same with the new concept car Opel in: In Profile, designers maximum voltage, limiting the number of rows in the GTC Paris. As with tendons, a sprinter, these lines create tension and provide sculptural forms. They serve as a basis for highlighting and surfacing to respond and then the wheels in a very sporting fashion.

The Opel signature blade is introduced in the same direction as first seen in the Insignia – a fine, tense crease along the rocker panel. A second line shoots from the door handle to the rear, emphasizing the vehicle’s dramatic stance by spreading the surfaces to a fine undercut and a broad shoulder. The third line following the silhouette of the roof is finished in finely brushed aluminum that accentuates the window graphic, guiding the eye to the sharply distinct integrated spoiler.

The front is clean yet full of character and features Opel’s typical centerline crease. It is further accented by intense, very slim eagle-eye shaped headlamps acting as parenthesis between the refined chrome emblem bar and the dramatic low trapezoidal grill which hints at its sporty character. Signature LED daytime running lights are outlined with finely crafted chrome inserts that can stand as a piece of sculpture by themselves.

The best of Opel’s compact car technology is brought to its sportiest level on the GTC Paris. The chassis has a special design with an extra-wide stance. It features a compound crank with an Opel-exclusive Watt’s link in the rear, a new, updated execution of the adaptive mechatronic FlexRide suspension and a front electronic limited slip differential. The GTC Paris is planted to the ground with dynamic 21-inch wheels.The powertrain in the GTC Paris is a four-cylinder, 2.0 liter Turbo with direct injection, packing maximum horsepower and torque. It is fitted with Start/Stop technology, proving that drivers can combine high performance with maximum fuel efficiency in urban driving conditions. The transmission is a six-speed manual gearbox.