Overhaul for Vauxhall engines

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Vauxhall is embarking on a complete renewal of its engine line-up between 2013 and 2016.

The highlights are a new 1.6-litre turbodiesel and a sub-100g/km three-cylinder petrol unit. Three new families of engines are coming, the key one being the MDE (medium diesel engine) — a 1.6-litre turbodiesel with a power output of between 100 and 140bhp — and on sale in 2013.

The MDE will replace higher-power 1.3 CDTi powerplants and the evergreen 1.7 CDTi, the most popular Astra engine in the UK.

“We are investing heavily in new powertrains ready for Euro 6 and to ensure we stay top of the class,” says Rita Forst, GM’s European engineering boss.

All the new petrol engines will feature direct injection. The SGE (small gasoline engine) will range

in capacity from 1.0 to 1.4 litres, while the MGE (medium gasoline engine) will be a 1.6.

The 1.0-litre unit will have three cylinders and will power the Junior hatch, an upmarket supermini aimed

at the Mini and Fiat 500, although it won’t be ready for the Junior’s launch at the Paris show next autumn.

Instead, the triple will be added to the range about a year after the Junior’s launch, when the SGE family goes into production.

All three new engine families will be built at a new £420 million factory in Hungary, capable of building 500,000 engines a year.

Vauxhall is also raising the power output of the 2.0-litre Family B diesel engine, adding a second turbo to boost peak output to 200bhp in its most powerful version.

The Family II petrol engine will get internal improvements to boost power, efficiency and emissions and be on sale in late 2015, ready for EU6.

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Vauxhall Junior - new spy photos

Here are photos of Vauxhall new spy first foray in the premium small car market, Vauxhall Junior. It is developed a city car, to compete directly with the mini and Fiat 500.

The car, which already in the final development phase and will be in early 2013 in the sale, has been spied, while further tests this week.

Only 3.7 metres long - the same like mini-Vauxhall Junior is done only as a 3-door hatchback, such as the exclusive artist rendering in the Gallery shown.

See new spy pictures of the Vauxhall Junior, as well as our presentation

The car was in GM Europe cycle plan for years. It was almost killed two years ago by GM then world boss Ed Whitacre, who at the time believed that global programmes should receive priority. However following extraordinary transatlantic representations in this year of European CEO Nick Reilly, strongly has the success, and long-term demand for cars like the mini and Fiat 500, the Administration changed its mind.

With the mini and Fiat 500 as inspiration, the junior styling is sweet and appealing. It has relatively narrow columns, a low beltline, and large, headlights.

It looks less obvious such as Vauxhall/Opel, a member of the family than some current models, with short wheelbase and unusually wide title, there is a squat, sporty look. It also has a convex rear window reminds A1 of the original Ford Ka and a curved roofline as an Audi.

The design is the work of Studio Vauxhall/Opel in Rüsselsheim, Germany. Although it focuses on European car, GM marketing think chiefs, who could sell town Luke in Asia and Latin America well.

Despite the 3-door body the junior has practical four-persons establishment and is larger, which from inside a Fiat 500.

The interior design is stylish, but flexible simplicity with a focus on a range of options, colors and surfaces; GM bosses have seen something as well for mini and Fiat 500 to work.

The junior offered, sportier engines but also in view; can be with a series of three-cylinder engines in petrol and diesel forms economy-oriented, Insiders say that the engine Bay in two different sizes can be made to accommodate bulky drive trains. A battery-powered version is also in development and to in 2015.

The junior are developed the premium-price model in a three strong GM small car area next to the Corsa and Agila, all iterations of the company's latest small car platform use in Korea.

However, the car will not junior in production, a day for a 1983 coined GM concept called will. GM bosses say the correct name is already selected, and can decide to reveal, the auto-start start building at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month.

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