Opel Ampera

  • 2012 Opel Ampera, first pre-production vehicle, April 2010

    We write a lot about the 2011 Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicle here. It's a radical new car, GM's first electric car since the late EV1, and it'll be in dealerships in just six months. But GM has another electric car coming next year as well. It's the 2012 Opel Ampera. Ummmm, what's an Opel Ampera? Well, basically, it's a Chevy Volt with a nose job, to be sold only in Europe by GM's longstanding German brand Opel. It's not as striking in black as the first spy photos of a white car were last year, but it's definitely different up front. You see, the Chevrolet brand in Europe is...

  • Opel (Vauxhall) Ampera
    First Pre-Production Opel Amperas Roll Off The Line

    The 2011 Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicle isn’t due to hit showrooms until the end of the year but the first pre-production examples are already rolling off production lines at a GM assembly line in Warren, Michigan. Now, the first pre-production Opel Amperas, Europe’s version of...

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