“gracing Saturn showrooms and an excellent alternative to the Korean-built Chevy Aveo and Pontiac G3 at the gimme-mileage end of GM's product range.”

The Corsa Ecoflex is also equipped with special roll resistance optimised smaller tyres. Opel is introducing new pro-environmental Ecoflex variants of the Corsa and Astra for 2009. With CO2 emissions of just 109 (Corsa 1.

RÜSSELSHEIM, Germany — Opel, General Motors' European subsidiary, has unveiled the first vehicles to wear its environmentally conscious Ecoflex nameplate: the 2009 Astra and Corsa.

Opel introduces new pro-environmental ecoFLEX variants of the Corsa and Astra for model year 2009. With CO2 emissions of just 109 (Corsa 1.3 CDTI ecoFLEX) and 119 g/km (Astra 1.7 CDTI ecoFLEX), the two are real fuel-efficiency stars, requiring just 4.

Zurich-based GM Europe has announced production versions of the former low-emissions Corsa and Astra ecoFLEX prototypes for Opel and Vauxhall. Just under twelve months since their debuts at the Frankfurt IAA, 'ecoFLEX' versions of General Motors Europe's Opel ...

We are delighted with the car, it has come together exceptionally well, said David Whitehead, Managing Director of MSD, the company charged with the development and support of the Corsa S2000.

Click above for a gallery of the Steinmetz Corsa OPC The Opel Corsa is small, cool, and like most other neat U.S.-automaker Euro offerings, unavailable to us -- at least for now. As good as the current car would look wearing Saturn badges and slotted beneath t...