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Opel Insignia Reaches Production Milestone, the 750,000th Unit is an Arden Blue OPC Sports Tourer

In production since 2008 at the Opel Russelsheim plant in Gemany, the Insignia took over the GM-owned manufacturer’s D-segment large family car duties. Replacing the popular Vectra was no small task for the new kid on the block, yet the Insignia has recently celebrated a very important milestone.
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After General Motors debuted the all-new D2XX platform with the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, the bigger E2XX is slated to come on the scene. We know it is just a matter of months until the 2016 Chevrolet Malibu sedan will present itself to the US public.

An official told us that the Russelsheim plant will be making a future model which will be marketed as a Buick model in the United States, namely the next-gen Buick Regal sedan, a badge engineered Opel Insignia. According to these bits of intel, we expect the second-gen Insignia to debut early next year.

Until that moment eventually arrives, Opel is in the middle of celebrating its Insignia success story. A few days ago, the Russelsheim factory produced the 750,000th example of the breed, a very cool-looking arden blue OPC Sports Tourer (estate). As any OPC-grade Insignia, this AWD family wagon is animated by a 2.8-liter turbocharged V6 motor with 325 horsepower and 435 Nm (320 lb-ft) of blunderbuss.

In the release that celebrates Insignia #750,000, Opel offered a further Easter Egg about the upcoming second generation: “an additional Insignia variant will be produced in Russelsheim later this decade, and will then be sold as a new model from the GM brand Buick in the United States.” Fingers crossed 2016 will bring us the 2016 Chevrolet Malibu-derived Opel Insignia and its posh US-bound brother - the 2017 Buick Regal.
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About the author: Mircea Panait
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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