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Adam Opel started his company in 1862 at Rüsselsheim to make sewing machines. Bicycles followed and then cars in 1899. General Motors took control of the brand in 1929. It passed to PSA in 2017 and then to Stellantis. Its headquarters are still in Rüsselsheim.
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Opel
1931–1937 · Inline-4
Its name was simply its engine size in litres. The 1.2 Liter broke with the German habit of two numbers, tax horsepower and real horsepower, as on its predecessor the 4/20. A smaller 1.0 Liter was sold for just one year, in 1933.
Photo: Lothar Spurzem (CC BY-SA 2.0 de)
Opel
2012–2019
Opel named its little city car after Adam Opel, the company's founder. Launched at the 2012 Paris Motor Show, it won a Red Dot design award in April 2013, and the readers of Auto Motor und Sport voted it best mini car with 24.2% of the votes, just ahead of the Volkswagen Up at 23.9%.
Photo: Alexander Migl (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Opel
1937–1977
Only eight were built in 1937. The first Admiral took on the Horch, Mercedes-Benz and Maybach luxury cars of the 3.5-litre class at a far lower price, just as Germany's first motorway boom began. By October 1939, 6,404 had been made, many of them bodied by coachbuilders like Gläser of Dresden.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Gryffindor assumed (based on copyright claims). (Public domain)
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