LAST AUTO NEWS – VAUXHALL FLEXTREME GT/E
Last Auto account – Vauxhall Flextreme GT/E Stunning Grand Tourer-style electric abstraction car boasts top achievement array and alive aerodynamics
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MEET the latest apotheosis of Vauxhall’s electric dream! This is the Flextreme GT/E, a arresting five-door affluence auto abstraction that will be the brilliant of the firm’s angle at the Geneva Motor Show.
Previewing a approaching Vauxhall architectonics administration with a failing physique fabricated of aluminium and blended materials, it gets a added able adaptation of the Ampera’s constituent amalgam ambit extender that allows a top acceleration of 125mph and 0-60mph in nine seconds.
Produced over the endure twelve months by architectonics administrator Mark Adams and his aggregation in Russelsheim, Germany, it credibility the way advanced to a approaching ample flagship for the range, as able-bodied as assuming how the firm’s electric powertrains are developing.
As you can see, it’s a arresting searching car with a low roofline – some 19cm lower than the Insignia’s – complete with adventurous recessed headlights, a advanced grille and a affecting waistline that bliss up over the rear wheels. This detail hides adaptable aerodynamic ‘blades’, which automatically arrange to accumulate the airflow absorbed at the rear, acutely abbreviation drag. Overall, the Flextreme GT/E has a annoyance agency of just 0.22 – a amount Adams believes could go even lower.
Similar in admeasurement to an Insignia, the abstraction uses aluminium and carbon blended abstracts to abate weight to a agnate akin to the Ampera. Speaking to Auto Express, Mark Adams said: “Whether these data will accomplish it assimilate a assembly car is down to cost. But I could absolutely invisage alive aero aids and alien abstracts on a added big-ticket top end car.”
Power comes from an uprated adaptation of the Ampera’s E-REV pack, with a 161bhp electric motor absorbed up to a range-extending 70bhp 1.4-litre petrol engine, which bliss in if charging is required. Some 370Nm of torque is beatific to 21-inch foreground auto which affection attenuated 195/45 tyres. Vauxhall engineers appraisal a battery-only ambit of 40 miles, a absolute ambit of about 300 afar and an boilerplate CO2 achievement of just 40g/km. Top acceleration is 125mph while 0-60mph takes about nine seconds.
There’s every adventitious the Flextreme GT/E will accomplish it into assembly sitting aloft the Ampera in Vauxhall’s range. Expect its architectonics data to affection on accessible models too. “This is not a flight of fancy. This is to electric cars what the Insignia was to our prodcution car portfolio. A flagship,” Adams told Auto Express.
Expect to see added abstraction cars based about the architectonics too. Adams account they’ll be abundant to attending at as well. “Flextreme GT/E is just one announcement of our intent. The architectonics of the E-REV backpack allows abundant added architectonics freedom. Packages could become smaller, with bargain aggregate about the nose, acceptance us to advance architectonics and accommodated boxy banal aegis laws.”
We’ll apprentice added about the Flextreme GT/E at Geneva on March 2nd.
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