OPEL Vectra · 1.9 CDTi Essentia · Sedan · 2004 ‐ 2005

From 2004 Opel launched production of autos model Vectra, modification of 1.9 CDTi Essentia and finished it in 2005. In this auto can fit 5 people including the driver, it has sedan form with four doors, and length 4.6 meters, weight 1.4 tons.

«Vectra 1.9 CDTi Essentia» vehicle with a 6-speed manual gear shift is connected to the front-wheels. This car can be accelerated for 9.8 seconds to 100 km/h, with a top speed of 217 km/h, due to a 4-cylinders diesel engine with a «common rail system», which generate a max power of 150 horsepower at 4000 rpm.

Fuel tank volume of this vehicle is 61 liters of diesel, so when mixed fuel rate is 5.8 l per 100 km (4.8 liters on the highway, 7.5 l in the city), that allows drive nearly 1052 kilometers without refueling.

The front wheels of this car have ventilated disks, 285 mm brakes and attached to the underframe by dint of suspension «MacPherson, independent, coil springs» and equipped sway bar. Rearward wheels have disks, 278 mm brakes and fixed to the body chassis by dint of suspension «Multilink, coil springs» and equipped anti-roll bar. Tires have the next size - 195/65HR15.

According to the results of Euro NCAP crash test, this model of Opel Vectra gained the great quantity of stars - four, which indicates that it is a enough safe car. Furthermore to active safety (Brake assistant, EBD, Traction control, ABS), it is also equipped with passive safety (side, head/curtain, driver, passenger airbags).