Rugged Show Car Ready for Everything: Opel Frontera GRAVEL

• Showstopper: New show car provides a vision for a rugged version of family SUV
• Beyond the asphalt: Extra-robust design made for rough and tough gravel roads
• Public premiere: Opel Frontera GRAVEL at the XS CARNIGHT Wörthersee on May 30

New Opel Frontera is ready for daily adventures. It is rugged, offers plenty of space, is electrified in every variant and is ideally equipped for the demands of everyday life – as can be seen in the pan-European launch campaign. Opel Frontera GRAVEL, is a bold show car which demonstrates what a more adventure-ready variant of the family-friendly SUV could look like. Rougher, tougher, made for life beyond the asphalt – this is the feeling Opel Frontera GRAVEL conveys. Designed by Opel in Russelsheim for its enthusiast community and built in collaboration with motorsport tuning partners BlackFish and XS, it is therefore fitting that the Opel Frontera GRAVEL will make its first public appearance in front of car fan community at the XS CARNIGHT Wörthersee on May 30.

"New Opel Frontera is already standout. It is rugged, practical, and perfect for families and everyday adventures. But with the Opel Frontera GRAVEL show car, we’ve pushed the limits, imagining a tougher, more daring, trailblazing version. This concept is built to fire up our fanbase and test the demand for a bolder, more rugged Frontera in the future. It’s all about freedom, adventure, excitement and pushing boundaries," said Rebecca Reinermann, Vice President Marketing of Opel and Vauxhall.

New Adventures call with Opel Frontera GRAVEL show car

Opel Frontera GRAVEL is built on the all-electric production model of the new Opel Frontera, allowing for locally emissions-free driving and thus ideally suited for nature drives. Its low centre of gravity and strong torque make it perfectly suited for soft roading adventures. To match the tougher challenges of rougher gravel and stone surfaces, Opel Frontera GRAVEL stands on special, 7x16-inch CWE wheels from BORBET.

On the exterior, its distinctive colourway and foiling evoke a sense of adventure and exploration. The matte black roof and bonnet, contrast with the special ‘Desert stone’ foil, uniquely selected for the Opel Frontera GRAVEL. For greater visibility offroad additional orange accents on the exterior mirror housings, front and rear bumpers, spoiler and the Opel Blitz in the black Opel Vizor complete the bold and eye-catching look.

Rugged look is further enhanced by a front-mounted winch and hook, side storage boxes at the rear, and a robust lattice-style roof rack designed to maximise gear-carrying capacity for all adventures. Additional exterior spotlights are mounted on the Thule Canyon XT carrier and the bonnet, providing excellent visibility for night-time driving over rough terrain.

Bold yet rugged theme continues in the interior. Here, the XS specialists have introduced strong contrasts. The driver and front passenger can enjoy comfortable seats, trimmed in microfibre with bright orange highlights, while the headliner is completely black.

All those who want to be among the first to see the Opel Frontera GRAVEL live can do so in the coming days. At the XS CARNIGHT Wörthersee, which takes place from May 28 to June 1 around Klagenfurt, Austria, Opel and the XS team will present the unmistakable show car to the general public for the first time – on Friday, May 30, in the Opel Hall at the Klagenfurt Trade Fair. Tickets for the event are still available here.

Opel to Present World Premiere at XS CARNIGHT Wörthersee 2025

• Makes fans’ hearts beat faster: Legendary tuning festival returns to Austria from May 28 to June 1 with a total of six events
• Strong partner: Opel thrills with many highlights and a special world premiere

XS CARNIGHT stands for unique automobiles and show cars that make fans' hearts beat faster. This year, the legendary tuning event is returning to Lake Wörthersee – with Opel set to take centre stage. From May 28 to June 1, the festival will attract the community to Klagenfurt with a mixture of vehicle exhibitions and further activities for the public. 

Opel will once again play a significant role: With its own hall and a very special world premiere on Friday, May 30. Only this much can be revealed at this point: It will be bold, it will be rough, it will be extraordinary in every respect.

The brand with the iconic Blitz emblem has already caused a stir at CARNIGHT events in the younger past – with Opel models that the XS specialists transformed into cars for aficionados thanks to eye-catching decals. The unique models of recent years include the current Astra in XS design as well as its highly dynamic estate counterpart, the Astra Sports Tourer.

However, the XS CARNIGHT festival is not just an event for tuning fans and car enthusiasts – instead they fill it with life. Thus, the Opel hall at the Klagenfurt trade fair will also feature numerous privately owned vehicles that have been modified with great attention to detail. All fans who want to visit the XS CARNIGHT Wörthersee on May 30 at the Klagenfurt Exhibition Centre and experience the Opel world premiere live can order tickets here.

For all who want to know more about Opel at this year’s XS CARNIGHT Wörthersee: Stay tuned – detailed information will follow soon.

New Opel Astra Plug-in Hybrid as XS Show Car

• Unique project will star at XS Carnight “20 Years of XSCN” in Berlin, July 29-30
• Cooperation with XS Carnight to sharpen Opel’s image in the tuning community
• Next appearance of Astra “XS” in September at XS Carnight at Lake Wörthersee

Tuning specialist XS has gone to work on the new Opel Astra plug-in hybrid. Electrified Astra show car in high-gloss white paint and black décor produces 133 kW/180 hp of system power and 360 Newton meters of maximum torque (WLTP combined fuel consumption1: 1.1 l/100 km, CO2 emissions 26-24 g/km). In addition, the five-door features top-of-the-line Ultimate equipment and numerous state-of-the-art technologies, such as the digital Pure Panel cockpit and the adaptive IntelliLux LED Pixel Light, as well as AGR-certified sport front seats. Project is part of a cooperation with XS Carnight that will further energise Opel’s image in the tuning community as the approachable German brand. Fans had already been wowed by the public debut of the newest Astra generation at last year’s international Tuning Meeting at Lake Wörthersee.

Team from the XS Carnight team has equipped the Astra with additional “GRINDS air suspension” and height sensors from “Carstyle me”, combined with the original shock absorbers. The 20-inch forged wheels (for display purposes only) from the American rim manufacturer "RVNT Forged" are real eye-catchers. Finally, the show car’s unmistakable look is completed by motorsport decals like those available from Opel Accessories, on the car’s sides and windscreen.

In the cooperation between XS Carnight and Opel – which this year is celebrating its 160th anniversary – the Astra show car will play a starring role at the anniversary XS Carnight “20 Years of XSCN” on July 29-30 at the Berlin Olympic Stadium. Anyone who wants to see Astra “XS” live should hurry; the last tickets are available online here. Next highlight in a series of events will be on September 17 with the XS Carnight at Lake Wörthersee in Austria.

[1] Provisional range determined according to WLTP test procedure methodology (R (EC) No. 715/2007, R (EU) No. 2017/1151). The actual range can vary under everyday conditions and depends on various factors, in particular on personal driving style, route characteristics, outside temperature, use of heating and air conditioning and thermal preconditioning.

!NEW! Opel crasht VW GTI Meet

Many visitors of this year's GTI Meet at Wörthersee was still the "Leider Geil" Aviator of Opel from the previous year in memory - now the brand had with the flash again ready for a surprise: Just in time for the nightly fireworks display, 6,000 glasses with the inscription "experience fireworks in 3D "distributed to expectant VW fans.

As the fireworks went off, could not believe the 6,000 lucky her eyes: Each point of light was through the eyes of an Opel logo. Thus, a total of millions Opel lightning poured over the lake.

Reactions were. Besides cursing the glasses were also disposed of in accordance hostile. Some were burned, Opel hostile rituals were completed, while others have passed away early on other violent manner.

Despite all the heated atmosphere there was also appreciative words of the fan base: "Horny Action unfortunately of Opel" - The previous year's motto was quoted almost friendly.