Opel Facts for Kids

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Opel, full name Adam Opel AG, is an automobile maker from Germany, founded in 1862. Since 1929, Opel is the German brand of the American automaker General Motors. Opel has about 35,000 workers. The company headquarters are in Rüsselsheim, Germany. Other German plants are in Eisenach and Kaiserslautern. In Great Britain, Opel cars are called Vauxhall. Opel would later engineer cars for GMDAT, and still engineers them for GM Korea. From 2007-2009 three Opel models (the Antara, the Astra and the Vectra) were sold in the United States under the Saturn marque. Upon the discontinuation of Saturn Buick became responsible for importing the Opel models. The only Buick cars to not be Opels are the Enclave CUV and the full sized LaCrosse sedan.

Car models
Current model range
- Light commercial vehicles
- OPC models
Discontinued models
Images for kids
See also

Car models

Commercial cars: Combo | Vivaro | Movano

Current model range

The following tables list current and announced Opel production vehicles as of 2017:

Adam	City car	Hatchback
Ampera-e	All-electric subcompact car	Hatchback
Astra	Small family car	Hatchback Sports Tourer (Estate/Wagon)
Cascada	Small family car	Convertible
Combo Life	Leisure activity vehicle	Van
Corsa	Supermini	Hatchback
Crossland X	Subcompact crossover	MPV/SUV
Grandland X	Compact crossover SUV	SUV
Insignia	Large family car	Grand Sport (Hatchback) Sports Tourer (Estate/Wagon) Country Tourer (AWD Estate/Wagon)
Karl	City car	Hatchback
Mokka X	Subcompact crossover SUV	SUV
Zafira	Large MPV	MPV

Light commercial vehicles

Corsavan	Car-derived van	Van
Combo	Panel van	Van
Vivaro	Light commercial vehicle	Van
Movano	Light commercial vehicle	Van Chassis cab Crew cab

OPC models

Opel produces high-performance derivatives of their cars developed by OPC.

Astra OPC		Compact sports car	Hatchback
Corsa OPC		Supermini	Hatchback

Discontinued models

System Lutzmann		1899–1902
Darracq		1902–1907
Doktorwagen		1909–1910
Laubfrosch		1924–1931
Olympia		1935–1970
Kadett		1937–1940 1962–1991
Kapitän		1939–1970
Olympia Rekord		1953–1957
Rekord		1953–1986
Commodore		1967–1982
GT		1968–1973
Ascona		1970–1988
Manta		1970–1988
Senator		1978–1993
Omega		1986–2003
Vectra		1988–2009
Calibra		1989–1997
Agila		2000-2014
Signum		2003–2008
Meriva		2003–2017

Images for kids

Advertisement for the Opel Perfecta sewing machines (1901)
Opel safety bicycle
Opel RAK.1 – world's first public flight of a manned rocket-powered plane on 30 September 1929
Opel Admiral convertible (1937–1939)
Opel Kapitän (1938–1940)
Opel Blitz assembly at the Brandenburg plant, 1936
Military Opel Blitz in Italy (1944)
An administration building of Opel Rüsselsheim
German auto industry recognition award for Gaston de Wolff[DE]
Opel Rekord E, mk.2 (1982–1986)
Assembly plant in Eisenach
The Opel Vectra C, in production from 2002 to 2008
Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann, CEO of the Opel Group from March 2013 to June 2017
1862: Adam Opel's initials
1910: the blue eye
Opel Adam R2 Rallye at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show
Opel Vectra GTS V8 DTM of Phoenix Racing at Circuit Park Zandvoort in 2005
Opel product of the 1940s: Frigidaire refrigerator
1952 Opel Kapitän
Opel Rekord P1 (1957–1960)
Hood ornament of the Opel Olympia (1935–37)
Hood ornament flying through the ring (1937)
Hood ornament of a 1937 Opel car, typical for many other Opels at the time
Logo on spare wheel cover of a 1938 Kapitän
Logo on the rear of a 1951 Kapitän
1959 Opel Kapitän
Early 1950s Opel Blitz with words in horizontal lightning
1961 Opel Blitz with stylised horizontal lightning
Basic form of current logo on a 1968 Opel Blitz
Lightning in ring on a 1969 Opel Kapitän
Opel logo (2002–07)
Opel logo (2017–21)
Opel Insignia 1st gen
Buick Regal 5th gen
Opel Insignia 2nd gen
Buick Regal 6th gen
Opel Cascada
Buick Cascada
2014 Buick LaCrosse
Opel Astra five-door
Saturn Astra XE five-door
Opel Vectra B Sedan
Saturn L-Series Sedan
Opel Antara
Saturn VUE
Chevrolet Captiva Sport
Opel Omega
Cadillac Catera

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