By a theorem of Mandell-May-Schwede-Shipley [18] the stable homotopy theory of classical S 1 -spectra is recovered from orthogonal spectra. In this paper general linear, special linear, symplectic, orthogonal and special orthogonal motivic spectra are introduced and studied. It is shown that the stable homotopy theory of motivic spectra is recovered from one of these types of spectra. An application is given for the localization functorin the sense of [12] that converts the Morel-Voevodsky stable motivic homotopy theory SH(k) into the equivalent local theory of framed bispectra [12]. CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1 2. Diagram motivic spaces and diagram motivic spectra 3 3. Motivic spectra associated with group schemes 4 4. Model structures for C -spectra 10 5. The comparison theorem 11 6. On the localization functor C * F r 18 References 21