Opel has pulled the wraps off its facelifted Antara at the Bologna Motor Show, and the Euro-market midsize cousin to our GMC Terrain has received a host of upgrades. As is the way with mid-cycle refreshes, the Antara’s Theta chassis has been re-tuned, the interior has been reworked and the powertrain is available in a [...]

Filed under: LA Auto Show , Sedan , Buick , GM 2012 Buick Regal GS – Click above for high-res image gallery Alright, so the 2012 Buick Regal GS isn’t the Americanized version of the 325-horsepower, all-wheel-drive Opel Insignia OPC we were once promised. Still, this sports sedan has a turbocharged and direct injected 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine that produces 255 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque, comes standard with a six-speed manual transmission and has enough visual flare to certainly give the impression of fast

Filed under: Car Buying , Hybrid , Sedan , Europe , GM , Opel , Electric 2011 Opel Ampera – Click above for high-res image gallery General Motors is ready to begin taking orders for the 2011 Opel Ampera , the European cousin of the Chevrolet Volt .

Filed under: Sedan , Buick , Reviews , Luxury Badge Engineering Is Alive And Well At The New GM 2011 Buick Regal CXL – Click above for high-res image gallery Haven’t we seen this play called before? Take a well-regarded European model, tweak it for the U.S.

Filed under: Europe , Ford , Nissan , Volvo , Renault , Opel , Citroën , Vauxhall , Alfa Romeo While it may seem like every magazine worth its bar-code is clamoring to select its own Car of the Year, over in Europe things are a bit more civilized.

Filed under: Concept Cars 1999 Sbarro GT1 show car – Click above for image gallery GT1 road cars are hard to come by. Manufacturers are required by some motorsport sanctioning bodies to homologate their racecars with production versions, but these often fetch millions of dollars and are only made in extremely limited quantities. All the more so for Sbarro ‘s GT1 show car.

Filed under: Concept Cars 1999 Sbarro GT1 show car – Click above for image gallery GT1 road cars are hard to come by. Manufacturers are required by some motorsport sanctioning bodies to homologate their racecars with production versions, but these often fetch millions of dollars and are only made in extremely limited quantities. All the more so for Sbarro ‘s GT1 show car

Filed under: Performance , Europe , Hatchback , Lotus , Opel , Vauxhall , UK 2010 Vauxhall GTC Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery From the likes of the Dodge EV to the Ford Cortina, Lotus has had its fingers in all of the Big Three’s pies. But its strongest relationship has historically been with General Motors .

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Filed under: Crossover , Chevrolet , GM , Rumormill 2011 Chevrolet Aveo – Click above for high-res image gallery According to the blokes over at Autocar , Chevrolet’s Korean arm is furiously working on turning the latest Aveo into a five-door, five-passenger crossover. This CUV version of Chevy’s subcompact, which just recently began production in Seoul, South Korea with sales slated for early 2011, will reportedly sport a stretched version of the platform and will be offered in both front-wheel and all-wheel-drive flavors. Upscale interior bits and pieces are apparently being borrowed from the European Opel parts bin, which should mean good things for the Gamma II-based cute ‘ute