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The Opel Insignia large family is GM’s European arm’s weapon in the highly competitive D-segment. Available as a four-door sedan, a five-door sedan or a station wagon and animated by an array of turbo diesel and petrol engines, the 7-year-old model is still pretty relevant today despite its antiquity. Still, 2009 saw Opel introduce the OPC version of the Insignia.
It took General Motors “only 6 years,” but at long last, Australia is going to receive the fast Insignia. To be sold in NZ and the Land Down Under starting from the second quarter of the current year, the Holden Insignia VXR is an import product despite what the Holden lion and stone badging would suggest you to believe.
With production already underway at the Opel Russelsheim plant in Germany, the Holden Insignia VXR is going to be “one of four new European vehicles to join the Holden range in quarter two of 2015.” The models that’ll follow suit are the sportified Astra VXR, Astra GTC and the long-awaited Holden Cascada.
Only yesterday we were reporting you that Holden has a new helmsman and that the brand is set to deliver 24 new vehicles and 36 new powertrain combinations throughout 2020, so here are the first of many newbies to arrive in the good ol’ dusty Oz. Powered by a 2.8 V6 Turbo petrol-fed motor with 239 kW (325 PS) and 435 Nm (320 lb-ft), the AWD Insignia OPC is available with either a 6-speed stick of a 6-speed auto.
It’s not confirmed yet if those figures will be carried over by the Holden Insignia VXR, along with the pricing. In Germany, the manual four-door starts at €49,005, while the automatic four-door creeps to €51,255. Current exchange rates translate those figures to AUD 71,125 and AUD 74,390. The Oz-specification 2015 Ford Mondeo doesn’t have a hot version, leaving only the 270 kW Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo full-size sedan as the most appropriate Insignia VXR’s rival in Australia. Ford, will you ever ST-ifiy or RS-ifiy the Mondeo?
With production already underway at the Opel Russelsheim plant in Germany, the Holden Insignia VXR is going to be “one of four new European vehicles to join the Holden range in quarter two of 2015.” The models that’ll follow suit are the sportified Astra VXR, Astra GTC and the long-awaited Holden Cascada.
Only yesterday we were reporting you that Holden has a new helmsman and that the brand is set to deliver 24 new vehicles and 36 new powertrain combinations throughout 2020, so here are the first of many newbies to arrive in the good ol’ dusty Oz. Powered by a 2.8 V6 Turbo petrol-fed motor with 239 kW (325 PS) and 435 Nm (320 lb-ft), the AWD Insignia OPC is available with either a 6-speed stick of a 6-speed auto.
It’s not confirmed yet if those figures will be carried over by the Holden Insignia VXR, along with the pricing. In Germany, the manual four-door starts at €49,005, while the automatic four-door creeps to €51,255. Current exchange rates translate those figures to AUD 71,125 and AUD 74,390. The Oz-specification 2015 Ford Mondeo doesn’t have a hot version, leaving only the 270 kW Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo full-size sedan as the most appropriate Insignia VXR’s rival in Australia. Ford, will you ever ST-ifiy or RS-ifiy the Mondeo?
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