Friday, November 6, 2009

Opel Insignia OPC






Source: GM Media Online * Bold architectonics appearance advance the baby * 239 kW/325 hp 2.8 V6 Turbo propels Opel’s arch assembly car anytime * FlexRide anatomy with adaptive 4x4 heralds ability and fun

Rüsselsheim. Dynamic and amorous alive has a new name at Opel: Insignia OPC. Its 2.8 V6 Turbo assertive with 239 kW/325 hp and a massive 435 Nm of torque makes it Opel’s best able assembly car of all time. The aerial achievement Insignia sedans ability a top acceleration of 250 km/h (restricted) and chase from aught to 100 km/h in a bald six seconds. The OPC variants of the Car of the Year 2009 will be accessible this abatement in all three anatomy styles – notchback, auto and Sports Tourer.

To mark the tenth ceremony of its acknowledged OPC range, Opel has arranged the Insignia with added aerial tech features. It is the aboriginal OPC alternative to action adaptive all-wheel drive and an cyberbanking rear bound blooper cogwheel as standard. Its FlexRide damping arrangement is distinctively acquainted to accord OPC drivers a added alive active experience. And, the Recaro advanced seats with four-way lumbar abutment and beanbag addendum are the aboriginal aerial achievement seats in the industry to accept the best coveted allowance of arete from the absolute orthopedic experts from Aktion Gesunder Rücken (Action for Healthy Backs).

The car looks as hot as it performs, with tiger tooth-shaped air intakes in the advanced bumper, rocker panels, an chip rear addle-brain and distinctively advised 19” OPC wheels. Satin chrome finishes and alive bifold bankrupt pipes chip into the rear bonanza add to the appeal.

Inside, designers created a adventurous dressing, with a aphotic headliner, a appropriate shifter and a flat-bottomed, achievement council wheel. The apparatus console illuminates red back drivers columnist the OPC button on their FlexRide system, putting the car in its feistiest mood.

“While the ecoFLEX adaptation shows our charge to outstanding environmentally affable cars, the OPC instills some hot chili acidity into the Insignia family. It spices up the alive experience,” says Hans Demant, Managing Director, Adam Opel GmbH. “It opens a new bearing of OPC cars, alms complete power, aesthetic ability and a lot of fun.”

Chassis: Adventurous and safe driving, yet comfortable, too

For the aboriginal time, an OPC archetypal is able with an adaptive 4x4 arrangement and an cyberbanking rear bound blooper cogwheel (eLSD). The four-wheel drive administration assemblage has been recalibrated to acclimate torque administration to the adventurous aesthetics of the OPC.

The Insignia OPC comes with the FlexRide cyberbanking arrangement which adapts damping and added alive functions to drivers’ preferences. OPC drivers accept amid a accepted mode, for all-round achievement ideal for accustomed alive or a appropriate Sport mode, in which the anatomy abeyance stiffens and reduces anatomy cycle for added agility. Back selecting the OPC button, the drive goes into the third dimension: Council gets added direct, the burke is added acknowledging and the anatomy settings go into achievement mode.

The Aerial Achievement Strut (HiPerStrut) advanced abeyance architectonics is advised abnormally for the Insignia OPC. With a bargain arbiter affection and a beneath arbor length, it decidedly evolves the McPherson strut from the accepted Insignia. HiPerStrut reduces torque council reactions, improves anchor and increases cornering power, alms Insignia OPC drivers the brittle feel they expect, with added attention and feedback.

The Insignia OPC is able with 18” Brembo advanced brakes with large, 355 x 32 mm, cross-drilled discs, four-piston, high-strength aluminum calipers and aerial achievement anchor pads. Distinctively developed Co-Cast amphibian discs abide of a casting adamant anchor rotor and an aluminum disc bell.

After accelerated testing on accessible anchorage and at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, engineers from the Opel Achievement Centermost in Rüsselsheim called Pirelli P Aught 245/40 tires, which are adapted with flow-formed 19” wheels. An alternative advancement with 255/35 units is accessible on artificial 20” wheels.

The best able assembly agent in Opel history ever

The Insignia OPC alcove a belted top acceleration of 250 km/h and sprints to 100 km/h in six seconds. Elasticity, too, is remarkable: In alone 7.1 seconds, it accelerates from 80 to 120 km/h in fifth gear.

The 239 kW/325 hp OPC adaptation of the 2.8 V6 Turbo allowances from a specific arrangement of the agent administration unit, an added turbo addition burden to 0.9 bar and a reworked bankrupt arrangement with a decidedly bargain adverse pressure. Developed by the specialist Remus, this stainless animate bankrupt band is 20 percent lighter than the accepted one. Because complete is so important in the acknowledgment of an engine, Opel acoustic engineers developed new centermost and rear mufflers.

The high-tech 2.8 V6 Turbo agent comes with a 6-speed chiral gearbox. To action optimal performance, the final drive arrangement was hardly beneath from 3.76 to 3.90:1 compared with the accepted V6 Turbo Sport and Cosmo versions.
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