Opel is set to rock the world of hot hatches at the Geneva Motor Show, with the carmaker scheduled to introduce the Astra OPC EXTREME at the Swiss event. Opel explains that the development used the ...

Opel's Astra OPC line-up only lived for three generations in the European market, but it felt like it was always there. Opel and Vauxhall ditched the Astra OPC/VXR with the arrival of the Astra K ...

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Alex Kaufmann March 25, 2009 Comment Now! The Astra hatch is approaching the end of its product cycle, but in the lead up to the arrival of an all-new model later this year Opel has seen fit to ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran November 4, 2011 Comment Now! GM’s European division Opel has taken the wraps off its new Astra OPC (known as the Vauxhall Astra VXR in the UK), which goes on sale in Europe next ...

Opel’s push for a foothold in Australia just took a turn for the better with the imminent arrival of a trio of performance models from OPC, Opel’s version of AMG. All were refined at the legendary ...

The Geneva motor show starts next week, which means we get to see an awesome selection of cars that will never come to our shores. On Wednesday, Opel added the Astra OPC Extreme to that category, ...

Mark McNabb was a contributor at TopSpeed from 2013 to 2018. Growing up, Mark always had a mind for tinkering on random items throughout his home and dad’s garage, including a 1953 Ford Mainline and ...

15 years after the launch of the first OPC model, the Astra G OPC, Opel takes a look back at the high-performance models produced to this day. The abbreviation OPC (Opel Performance Center) replaced ...

Powered by a 2.0-litre direct-injection turbocharged petrol engine, the 2012 Astra OPC will produce 206kW of power and 400Nm of torque. Those figures position the Astra OPC well ahead of the Renault ...

This story includes a speculative rendering of the upcoming performance-focused Opel Astra variant created by Thanos Pappas for CarScoops that is neither related to nor endorsed by Opel / Vauxhall.