This video captures the Opel Speedster 2.0 Turbo during a full-throttle acceleration run from 0 to 180 km/h. The kickdown ...

The Speedster was a rebadged Lotus Elise produced between 2001 and 2005 by Lotus for Opel. It was also available in right-hand drive for the UK market as the Vauxhall VX220. Sharing the Lotus ...

Musclecar doomsayers have been bracing themselves for a musclecar apocalypse at the end of 2002. That's when GM's contract with the Canadian Auto Workers at its Ste. Therese, Quebec, plant expires.

You want this car. You want its direct no-power steering, tiny Momo wheel, snickety shifter, thinly padded racing seat, wonderfully low center of gravity and 17-inch tires that produce seemingly ...

Last week, Chevrolet revealed the long-awaited mid-engine Corvette. It’s a radical departure, both for the Corvette and for General Motors as a whole. The automaker’s most well-known foray into ...

Frustration wells up much more quickly in a fast car than a slow one. The creased old men, bent like commas in matching tweed caps, shuffle across the road, a row of four spaced like an octogenarian ...

Derived from the much-celebrated Lotus Elise, the Speedster shares its less-is-more engineering philosophy in creating a pure-bred sports car. Much of Lotus' basic architecture and build processes ...

Il était temps ! A l heure de la généralisation des moteurs Diesel à injection directe par rampe commune, Opel faisait figure de retardataire. Une lacune qui n est sans doute pas étrangère à l érosion ...

Mais il y a eu des exceptions ! Parmi elles, on se souvient de l'alliance avec Lotus, pour proposer sa vision de l'Elise, à travers le Speedster… Opel s'est rapproché de Lotus pour en extrapoler une ...