Just last week we reported that GM’s Australian arm Holden was looking at additional exports markets for its Commodore sedan. Today the U.K.’s Vauxhall announced its new VXR8, a rebadged Holden Commodore HSV Clubsport R8. Both are the product of Holden Special Vehicles (HSV), the officially designated performance vehicle division of Australian motor car manufacturer […]

According to reports, GM Europe’s president, Carl-Peter Forster, has said that the Vectra name will likely disappear when the next-generation arrives in summer 2008. As part of GM’s plan to integrate Opel and Saturn, the Opel Vectra is the basis for the Saturn sedan.
Forster said the all-new model would be a radical departure from the […]

Despite the fact that General Motors’ ‘global’ Kappa-platform sports car is coming to Europe as the Opel GT, it appears that a Vauxhall version will not be making it to the U.K. While Vauxhall’s bosses want to bring the droptop sports car to the U.K., they can’t make a financial case for converting the vehicle […]

Vauxhall has released a special edition Astra GTC that features its new Panoramic windshield option, with exclusive GTC badging, 18-inch rims, foglights, ESP and interior goodies like A/C and sport seats. Vauxhall will build only 500 units of special edition Astra GTC.
The Panoramic windscreen is made of heat-absorbing glass cuts right back across the roof […]

General Motors announced today that it intends to trim production at its plant at Ellesmere Port to boost productivity. GM said it would cut one of the three shifts at the plant, which will likely result in the loss of 900 employees, to compensate for the expected decline in sales of its Astra compact model. […]

In the latest blow to the British auto industry, General Motors Europe looks set to cut 1,000 jobs at its Vauxhall factory in Ellesmere Port.
“It was a long and difficult discussion. We are going to announce the outcome on Wednesday (May 17) after we have informed our workforce,” a GM Europe spokesman said on Tuesday. […]