Vauxhall is relaunching its range-topping Insignia VXR SuperSport with an unrestricted top speed of 270km/h (168mph), and it comes with a hefty price cut against the previous VXR.

The Vauxhall VXR SuperSport rides on a HiPer strut front suspension, adaptive damping and comes with a VXR setting to enhance controllability at high speeds.

The Insignia VXR SuperSport does away with the speed limiter allowing the car to hit 170mph (274 km/h), which makes it 15 mph (24 km/h) faster and is priced at £29,995. A twin-scroll turbocharged 2.8 litre ECOTEC V6 allows 100 km/h remains the same at 5.6 seconds.

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After releasing several teaser images at the beginning of last month, now they have provided full details about the 2013 Opel Cascada and is confirmed for a sales launch in Europe next spring.

The new Opel Cascada is the brand's fourth new model this year following the Ampera, the platform used for the 2013 Opel Cascada is a mixture of elements from the Astra and Insignia underpinnings sporting.

With a length of 4697mm and a width of 1840mm, but it's actually 71mm longer than the Audi A5 Cabrio and 85mm longer than the BMW 3-Series. It will be available with various wheels ranging from 18 to 20 inches, handling is aided by a HiPerStrut suspension and electric power steering and an electric parking brake both come standard.

Most of the 2013 Opel Cascada interior is carried over from the compact Astra, with the automaker providing several luxury amenities and tech goodies include seats are upholstered in Nappa leather, electric adjustment of the seats, electric seat belt pretensioners and ventilation systems for the seats.

When it goes on sale across Europe early next year, the 2013 Opel Cascada will be the first product to offer an all-new 1.6-liter SIDI ECOTEC turbocharged 4-cylinder that produces 170-hp an 206 lb-ft of torque with direct-injection and turbocharging technologies. The electrically operated hood can be opened in 17 seconds at speeds up to 30mph (48 km/h).

Buick has given no indication that it will bring the Cascada to North America, Buick hasn't had a factory-built convertible in the modern era. Vauxhall said that pricing for the 2013 Opel Cascada will start in the UK from around £25,000 (equal to $40,500 at the current exchange rates).

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Thanks to a series of enhancements about the engine and transmission, the 2013 Opel Corsa Ecoflex will become the most economical after a series of tweaks has cut its already impressive fuel consumption.

"In just five years, from the first Corsa ecoFLEX to today, we have been able to reduce consumption and CO2 emissions by 26%,while at the same time increasing performance by over 26%," said engineering chief Mike Ableson.

The latest generation of the 2013 Opel Corsa Ecoflex three-door returns a fuel economy of 3.3lt/100km or 85.6 miles out of every gallon of diesel, with corresponding CO2 emissions of 88g/km. That's a 2.4mpg and a 6g/km improvement over the 2011 model.

The car has also been equipped with a retuned suspension, the turbodiesel is equipped with a variable displacement oil pump, a revised ECU and engineered manual transmission with new gears 185/65 R15 low-rolling-resistance tyres.

Despite the changes, the 2013 Opel Corsa Ecoflex still equipped a 1.3-liter oil burner engine that produces 95 HP (95PS) and 190 Nm (140 lb-ft) of torque available between 1,750 and 3,250rpm. This enables the three-door model to accelerate from 0-100 km/h in 12.3 seconds and a top speed of 177km/h (110mph).

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