Opel Insignia OPC Sports Tourer: family vehicle, sports car

Car Auto Online | Opel Insignia OPC Sports Tourer: family vehicle, sports car | If you want a car with good load capacity and want to share with the whole family emotions that only a sports car can deliver, this is for you Insignia: OPC version can give you great satisfaction even on the track, with its 2.8 V6 Turbo from 325 horses. To test this we took the track at the Nürburgring.

Germany is a specialty particularly to propose on the list, alongside their car family, also of the brilliant "versions of pepper." Think of the various SW Mercedes AMG, the Audi RS Avant or BMW M5 Touring. In this sector offers the Opel Insignia OPC Sports Tourer (Opel Performance Center), which is distinguished visually by "normal" version for a large section tires mounted on huge wheels of 20 ", the larger front air intakes and many - in the queue - for dual exhausts diamond.

Components of the first order - but the differences are not only outside: under the "metal skin" of the body, there are, in fact, sport suspension tuning, Brembo brakes with discs increased, and a lively 2.8 V6 turbo 325 horses assisted four-wheel drive. The kit is complete with fancy accessories monumental sports leather seats of Recaro and professional - in the console - OPC with the button: pushed the dash glows red and you select the mode that most "extreme" FlexRide system, which changes the dynamic characteristics the car (the suspension is stiff, the steering is more direct, and the gear changes occur more quickly).

Sweet steering, maneuvering the Sports Tourer intimidating for its generous size, but once in motion is transformed into agile and balanced in the mix, stable and precise in the corners, as well as sincere and able to take corrections promptly. When you start pushing seriously, however, driving becomes more challenging, especially in these fast on uneven, with plenty of swings and a tendency to oversteer. The nearly 1900 kg of the insignia along with high-performance OPC lead to overwork a brake, in the use that the limit is "harden" and become noisy.

While it is not overwhelming at start, the V6 revs German with grit and relationships rather long drives with ease. Fluid and elastic from 2500 rpm, has a progression from sports, and provides the best of themselves over between 4000 and 6500 rpm. Too bad that the sequential-automatic transmission torque converter, dissolve a little 'grit in the engine at start and gear changes. In addition, this six-speed gearbox does not like racing use too much and often refuses to climb if you do not act the just regime. Considering that we are certainly not been favored in at least three passes, the time of 8'35 "93, takes a considerable thickness for" Family car "(even sports).