The Opel Ampera pricing announcement will have made things difficult for the market launch of this model next year. With a general price across Europe of 42,900 euros, that makes the Ampera an expensive vehicle here. What’s more, the price is not market specific at this stage, with individual market prices to be announced later.

We can only assume that those prices will be higher when local taxes and optional extras for each individual European market are taken into account. The Chevrolet Volt (the US model the Opel Ampera is based on), costs about 41,000 USD as a starting price. At the current exchange rate, the euro Ampera price announced equates to about 58,000 USD.

According to Autocar, the UK Vauxhall Ampera could cost less and currently on that market there is an incentive scheme of 5,000 pounds for “eco-vehicles”. Nice if you live in England and still want to spend the money, but we can’t help wondering if Opel didn’t just price its Ampera right out of the European market.

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