Opel Insignia Concept

The Opel Insignia was an upper-class concept car of the Opel brand, first shown to a wide public at the IAA in 2003. The study was meant to explore the technical and aesthetic possibilities of a model range that would follow the Admiral and the Senator in concept, size and equipment. Notable features of the concept were its hydropneumatic suspension, a pantograph mechanism that opened and closed the rear doors and the tailgate like sliding doors, and LED lighting technology. In early 2005 Opel announced that the concept could not be turned into series production because it was too heavy, too expensive and too complicated, so the large saloon stayed a pure concept study. The successor of the Opel Vectra reached the market at the end of 2008 under the name Opel Insignia, but is built on the study of the mid-size Opel GTC Concept.