A racecar for the road. Usually that statement is nothing more than marketing, but Opel may have actually done it with its Astra OPC Extreme. It promises that the hot hatch is the fastest production ...

For compact GM coupes in general, this represents a really unusual story. Most of Opel’s Astras had quite modest powertrains, banking on the 1.6-liter and 1.8-liter Ecotec engines that were really ...

Opel’s push for a foothold in Australia just took a turn for the better with the imminent arrival of a trio of performance models from OPC, Opel’s version of AMG. All were refined at the legendary ...

Opel is set to rock the world of hot hatches at the Geneva Motor Show, with the carmaker scheduled to introduce the Astra OPC EXTREME at the Swiss event. Opel explains that the development used the ...

The marketable vehicles developed by the Center are sold under the Opel brand, as special versions of the standard Opel vehicles. They are typically painted in a peculiar shade of blue (though other ...

After we previously stepped in the worlds of AMG and BMW, today we'll continue our debate over sport divisions around the world with a new and well-known unit: OPC. Mostly known as Opel's sport ...

Powered by a 2.0-litre direct-injection turbocharged petrol engine, the 2012 Astra OPC will produce 206kW of power and 400Nm of torque. Those figures position the Astra OPC well ahead of the Renault ...

Alex Kaufmann March 25, 2009 Comment Now! The Astra hatch is approaching the end of its product cycle, but in the lead up to the arrival of an all-new model later this year Opel has seen fit to ...

The new Opel Astra OPC, otherwise known as the Vauxhall Astra VXR, is the latest arrival in the European hot hatch segment. If there’s one model it has to beat – aside from the ever-popular VW Golf ...

Extreme seems to be the most appropriate adjective for describing the new 2014 Opel Astra->ke1220 OPC EXTREME. Based on the euro-spec Astra OPC Cup, Opel->ke65 has reworked this car with loads of ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran November 2, 2011 Comment Now! GM’s European division Opel is working on a high-performance version of its recently revealed Astra GTC sports coupe, a prototype of which was ...

Well that didn’t take long. General Motors’ German brand Opel has been in the country just six months and it has discovered Australians love hot hatches. About one-in-four Volkswagen Golfs sold ...