Opel Signum

Let’s get to know our test car which is an Opel Signum from 2005. What we have to know about this car that it tries to fill the gape on the GM palette since the Opel Senator. The General Motors carried out the development of the Opel Signum very economical because it is made totally on the ground of the Opel Vectra. We can notice it equals to it until the A column. There was a change according to the manufacturing status. The owner bought a refrigerant mask with the name Teamshare for his car and it became shadowline without any chrome accessories. There was another change too. The car got the aboriginal OPC rim from the Opel. Everybody has to decide whether it is too big for this car. Because the size of this rim is 19 and there is a tire with the size 235/35 around it. It is very good for the dynamic driving. (1,41) Although it might be a bit hard-bitten by the roads in Hungary. As I said the Opel Signum equals to the Opel Vectra until the A column. Then a more interesting part of the car comes: the axle-distance is elongated. The people can enjoy it inside the car. And here comes the most interesting part: the C column is extended at is was. Another curiosity of this car is that maybe we waited for a form of the Sedan or a version with 5 doors but it became a fashionable sport-estate car with this design plan. The back part of the Opel Signum consists of very beautiful clear-out forms. And if we open the luggage rack, we meet a place of around 500 litres which we can use for the luggage our liking. Now that the luggage rack is opened, the most interesting part of the Opel Signum appears which is this interesting bow how the door of the luggage rack opens. That is why it is difficult to range this car to the cars with 5 doors or to the estate cars. Let’s see the inside part from back to fore like the cancer goes. After the luggage rack let’s turn down the seats. We can raise the container-capacity with round 1500 litres by turning down the seats. And here comes the most exciting part of the Opel Signum. If we turn up the seats we can see that they can be variable very easily. So we can set it in more positions. What is still interesting: this car was advertised in 2003 with that the back seat-line (if I find the lever) can be moved from back to fore and back. It depends on how big the driver is in front of us and how big place we need for our legs. If we see it now it is possible to play football in front of me. But if we need more place for the luggage, we drag the seat and we can place calmly. What is still important at the back line that the Opel Signum is originally for four people but here also five people can sit. But if we see the form of the seats it is rather for four people optimal. We can say that the middle part is a so-called „roost”. We should find small container-boxes under this in case if I manage to find out how to open it. But the important thing is that before it there are two glass-cases and a small ashtray if somebody smokes. And we have to turn it in….and… Yeah, success. And then we can turn it round. We can use it this way as a middle part. We talked a lot about the fact how comfortable we can sit on the back part of the car, let’s see the situation at the fore part. We can say that here is a very nice and friendly inside like in an Opel. We can say that the side-keeping and the hardness of the seats is almost excellent is his category. This Opel Signum still has the interesting parameter that the producers stole a bit from their American brothers, friends (because the Opel belongs to the General Motors) and there are 1-2-3-4-5 boxes for sun-glasses here above. Or if we don’t use it for that then we can use it for anything else. I think it is very funny. It has a good effect here. The producers try to show that this car is made for the passengers and for the driver. The setting up of the car is very good, of course there are air-conditioner, four electric windows, fog lights, lavi, everything that an average driver can wish. There are still seat-heating, tempomat, there is really everything that we need in the weekdays. There is a thing which is interesting and which can make a joke with the average driver who sits at first into an Opel Signum. I don’t know why the switch has to be spared but it is solved in the Opel interestingly. If this switch is turned on then I can pull down the window. And we needed 5 seconds to find out that we can pull down the back-windows if we switch over this button and this way we can move them. I don’t understand why these cheap solutions are used in such a car which shows such a big prestige. I think that we haven’t talked about only one thing in connection to the Opel Signum yet and this is the place where the motor is namely the motor in it. That is in this case a DCI motor of 1,9. It has 150 horsepower and it has a huge torque which we can divide gorgeously on our gearshift with six speed. This configuration makes the Opel Signum totally good therefore that this car come through the roads in Hungary. After the first some warming up km we can say that Opel Signum is very handleable. Its weight is 1,6 ton and it is more than 4,5 metre long but it is easyly manoverable. It makes a bit noise only in the critical situation. This DCI motor of 1,9 is a perfect fellow-passenger with this gearshift with 6 speed during the driving in the weekdays. It uses the correct dinamic to speed. And we can say also that the brakes are produced to this dinamic so there isn’t any problem with the stopping. Finally we can say that the Opel Signum is made for people who want to avoid the too big ostentation. For example for people who don’t like driving an Audi, BW or Mercedes Triumph but they would like to travel in fancy condition. Or if it is not fancy but it has prestige. For them the Opel Signum is the perfect choise.