New 'High Performance' Vauxhall Signum

[fsandys]

Originally Posted by Vauxhall Motors How much would you expect to pay for a 250bhp premium car, built in Germany and powered by a smooth and punchy 2.8-litre V6 engine? A quick scan through the price lists suggests you’ll be looking at upwards of £30k, but not with Vauxhall’s new flagship Signum. The 2.8-litre turbo, available in Design or Elite trim, is available from only £23,050, and now comes with an uprated V6 powerplant, developing 250bhp and an impressive 350Nm of torque. The new unit gives it an incredible 0-60mph time of just 6.8 seconds and an electronically limited top speed of 155mph for the manual version. Design models feed the power to the road through a six-speed manual gearbox, while the more luxury-oriented Elite comes with a six-speed automatic transmission with Active Select facility. Both models come with ESP-Plus as standard, while the Design gets lowered and uprated sports suspension. As with all Signum models, standard equipment includes colour sat nav, 17-inch alloy wheels and electrically operated front and rear windows. The Design also has front fog lamps, dark-style head and tail lights, half-leather trim, automatic lighting control, rain-sensitive windscreen wipers and active head restraints, while Elite models get full leather trim and electronic climate control. To fit this equipment to some rivals would involve an expensive trip to the options list.

I'm not sure yet if this will be a worldwide / europewide or UK only idea.

[TopGearNL]

Originally Posted by dani_d_mas Since when a 250hp big sedan is 'high performance'? :roll:

Yeah, except it isn't a sedan

[TopGearNL]

Originally Posted by dani_d_mas ^ oh yes, sorry... it's one of those cars you don't really know exactly how to call it, like the R-Klasse and the Renault Vel Satis - pure crap in other words... and proof of this is that I don't see them on the road.

LMAO

I know what you mean, its a hatchback, except it isn't

[dons5]

thats nice, Not

[fsandys]

Originally Posted by dani_d_mas Since when a 250hp big sedan is 'high performance'? :roll:

I agree! That is why I put it in quote marks in the title!!!

THat was the title of the press release!

[taygunho]

So it is a OPC version of Signum am I right? 0-100 km/h is 6.8 seconds where is high performance?Astra OPC can do in 6.4 seconds.

[fsandys]

Astra VXR (UK) does it in 6.2

[taygunho]

Is 6.2 seconds 0-60mph or 0-100kmh?

[fsandys]

Good point, it's 0-60 not 62mph, which is funny because in the same release, the monaro speed is the 0-62.