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    2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal

    Opel Ampera Officially Unveiled!
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    03/03/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    Opel is a bit overly optimistic about their future.
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    03/02/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    looks... heavy.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/02/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    Awwh! It even has my eyes.


    Fortunately, I don't have its eyeliner.

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    03/02/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    Can I buy the chassis only and have Jason Castriota build me a one of body?


    /dream

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    03/02/09

    @dwegmull, plain and simple:

    of --> off, duh!
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    03/02/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    "Oh my GOSH I'm just sooooo excited I had to come out early and tell everybody all about myself and how fabulous I am! I'm sure you're all going to LUUUUUUUUUUURVE me!!!"


    /Ampera

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    03/02/09

    @leeeeena: When compared to a Prius... I think they will.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/02/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    The ePRS (US Patent No. c11077983) translated the press release to this:


    Opel decided to stop teasing the world with its emo-inspired plug-in hybrid and just come out of the closet. Officially introduced to the world at Geneva is the Opel Ampera and, to complete the ambiguously gay duo, the right-hand drive Vauxhall Ampera.


    Carl-Peter Forster, GM Europe president, said that the Opel Ampera shows that GM is a leader in electric vehicles and not a Fugazian. This can only be seen as a slam at certain Asian automakers who made announcements today.


    The Opel Ampera takes design cues from bands such as Dashboard Confessional and Coldplay.


    The Ampera's wheels are constantly turned on [electricity], and can get a little jolt from an engine-generator extending its range from 60 km in pure electric mode to more than 500 km in hybrid mode.


    The Opel Ampera can be plugged into any European household's 230V 50 Hz circuit.


    The Ampera is the first practical electrically driven vehicle in Europe. It seats four, is flamboyant to drive, and can store 3 dead gigolos in its hind end.


    The 16 kWh electric motor provides 370 Nm of torque. The engine-generator can run run on gasoline or E85. GM expects 0-62 times around 9s and a top speed of 161 km/h.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    03/02/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    I'll want to see it in person.


    All too often pretty renderings like these are terribly executed in the physical world.

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    03/02/09

    @Mad_Science: Its like seeing pictures of a hot actress and then seeing her in real life. Airbrushing and Photoshop create a tasty picture, but its all an illusion.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    03/02/09

    @Mad_Science: The 2010 Focus springs to mind. In photos, the car looks quite dynamic and interesting. In person, it's much more... vanilla. It's not ugly by any stretch of the imagination, but I walked past it probably 3 times before I even noticed it, and I was half-assedly looking for it.
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    Image of MrBangBam MrBangBam
    03/02/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    *Likes how the electric rope thingamajigger goes into the car much like a gas pump.


    Creative!

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    03/02/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    ...all the boys think Jalopnik's a spy/

    and she's got Tammy Faye Baker eyes...
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    03/02/09

    @bygeorge: I thought that was 'Marty Feldman' eyes.
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    03/02/09

    @Chuckie_A: Robert Smith.
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    Image of jduffy13 jduffy13
    03/02/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    Pretty saucy looking!


    The Volt is cowering in the corner now I'm sure of it.


    To cruise back and forth to work around Hollywood, I'd buy this in an Ampera second. That would keep mile off of my M3 as well.


    Come on GM you wankers, sell us the Opel in the states, I dare you!

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    03/02/09

    @jduffy13: If you wanted to be even more douchey you could buy the front end clip and install it on the Volt, along with a handful of Opel badges.
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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    03/02/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    Ok, engineerd, no resting on your laurels. There are press releases to be summarized!
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/02/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    That looks pretty slick. Hope that means folks will be lining up to get right with GMAC.
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    03/02/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    Why don't they just sell this instead of the Volt?
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    Image of WilliamG. WilliamG.
    03/02/09

    In reply to 2011 Opel Ampera: Screw The Schedule, Here's The Full Reveal
    So not only does the grille look better than the Chevrolet version, but the ENTIRE interior does too?
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    03/02/09

    @WilliamG.: To be fair, the interior is the same but for the color choices, and GM styling folks have hinted at something similar for the Volt.
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    03/02/09

    @WilliamG.: Gee, I guess metric really is better.


    And here I am doing calculations in inch-pounds and British thermal units. Silly me.

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    Image of LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard
    03/01/09

    In reply to Opel Ampera Officially Unveiled!
    ..name them after components like Rezistor, Tranzistor GT.


    We could see the Lamborghini Diode.


    Ok I'll stop now and self administer an upper-cut.

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