Opel Flextreme GT/E Concept presented at Geneva Motor Show

Germans from Opel presented an electric sports model, which uses the train propulsion of the Chevrolet Volt model and it could provide what the Americans from Cadillac refused to do: an extended autonomy electric vehicle and good performances.

The manufacturer from Russelsheim came at the Geneva Motor Show this year with the new Flextreme GT/E Concept. The model have a length of 4.7 meters and a silhouette of a coupe, which hides a sporty and more powerful version of the drive train which Chevrolet Volt debuted. Flextreme has a drag coefficient of just 0.22, well below most series vehicles from 2010 and is equipped with an electric motor of 160 hp and 370 Nm.
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Official: Opel Flextrem GT/E Concept

Opel has officially presented the first images of Flextreme GT/E, the concept which indicates the design and the ecological direction which will followed by the German manufacturer in the future. Opel presented the first images of the Flexstreme concept before its debut at the Geneva Motor Show. The model will use the electric propulsion train of the Volt and Ampera models and is described by Opel as “a new type of GT”.

The concept prefigures both a future Opel top model, but also the progress of the design language that has been expressed recently by Insignia and Astra models.
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