The slogan of "Faster, Higher, Stronger!" It's time to cancel – in the world have long been subject to all the other motto: "Faster, faster, faster!". Today, no one strikes when people are bringing in potatoes problem on the Lancer Evo, standing in traffic jams on the 500-strong Porsche Cayenne or pick up children from school on a 240-strong minivans. If people have always followed this logic, it would be in the Middle Ages drove horses to hell and became the plow to the cheetah – they faster! In 1997, Opel guys have understood that the delay can not go on, and if neotlagatelno not create their racing division, then it will be too late. So in Russelsheim – hometown Opel – appeared Opel Performance Center (OPC). Specialist immediately recognize OPC. It painted in a company for "Charged Opel color – Arden Blue, although without this distinction from the usual lack of Vectra. 18-inch wheels, sport body kit, and two exhaust pipes in the form of USB ports found themselves behind to face a Vectra. She no longer looks like a suitcase with wheels – now it's a predator, and the roar of the engine it just shows.

But despite this, many of this model is associated with the domestic auto industry! Full throttle – and the car darts off, and the steering wheel is taken to pound in hands. Under the hood Vectra OPC 255 hp. with. – Almost optimal "herd." Peak torque of 355 Nm is reached at 1800 r / min and remained at the limit of 4500 rev / min. So the turbo V6 of 2.8 liters is not necessary to unscrew the sound of that car gone for real. Even when the tachometer needle is at 1000 rev / min, Vectra pulls well, but costs more to put pressure on the pedal, the machine breaks down rapidly forward. Up to 100 km / h OPC accelerates in 6.9 seconds – 0.3 seconds slower than younger sister Astra OPC. By the way, even though the car and charged the full, it is not exhausting in city traffic. Six-speed runs with such ease that even a long tube is not able to make the driver feel sorry that the machine does not "Automatic."