It was offered as a three-or five-door hatchback, a saloon ( sedan ), and an estate ( wagon ) known as the Caravan and available with five doors only, bringing Opel's run of three-door wagons to an end at long last.

The first cars were produced in 1899 after Opel's sons entered into a partnership with Friedrich Lutzmann, a locksmith at the court in Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt, who had been working on automobile designs for some time.

These cars were not very successful and so the partnership was dissolved after two years, following which Opel's sons signed a licensing agreement in 1901 with the French Automobiles Darracq S. A. to manufacture vehicles under the brand name " Opel-Darracq ".

The Astra F consisted of two main revisions and was revised in 1994, with the launch of Opel's new Ecotec engine.

The Opel Astra F consisted of two main revisions and was revised in 1995, with the launch of Opel's new Ecotec engine.

However, by 2010, reflecting both its status as a run-out model and adverse consumer reaction to uncertainty over Opel's future, the car was outsold by the more recently face-lifted Volkswagen Touran on the German market, with 2, 568 Zafiras sold in the first two months of the year against 7, 270 Tourans.

Since GM's Saturn division already shared models with Opel, the GT is in fact Opel's version of the Saturn Sky.

" Later, evidence arose suggesting that Opel's appearance was facilitated as a publicity stunt by the show's producer Jack Haley, Jr. Robert Metzler, the show's business manager, believed that the incident had been planned in some way ; during the dress rehearsal Niven had asked Metzler's wife to borrow a pen so he could write down the famous line, which was thus not the ad-lib it appeared to be.

The Opel Omega is an executive car marketed by the German automaker Opel between 1986 and 2003 in two generations, both manufactured at Opel's Rüsselsheim, Germany plant.

At the time of Opel's death in 1895, he was the leader in both markets.

The " Regent " – Opel's first eight-cylinder car – was offered.

Opel's first turbocharged car was the Opel Rekord 2. 3 TD, first shown at Geneva in March 1984.

Opel's official convention is that the Astra is a logical continuation of the Kadett lineage, thus referring to the first generation of Opel Astra as the Astra F ( the last Opel Kadett was the Kadett E ).

Both engine and chassis was produced in limited numbers ( 250 only ) in both sedan and hatchback guise in Opel's Hungarian factory at Szentgotthárd.

When the Cavalier was first introduced, the cars were built at Opel's plant in Belgium, but production quickly moved to Luton.

The first Opel car to carry the Kadett name was presented to the public in December 1936 by Opel's Commercial-Technical director, Heinrich Nordhoff, who would in later decades become known for his leadership role in building up the Volkswagen company.

The new Kadett followed the innovative Opel Olympia in adopting a chassis-less monocoque construction, suggesting that like the Vauxhall 10 introduced in 1937 by Opel's English sister-company, the Opel Kadett was designed for high volume low cost production.

Competitive pricing led to commercial success, and Kadetts continued to be produced during the early months of the war: by the time production was interrupted in 1940 following intensification of hostilities, 107, 608 of these Opel Kadetts had come off the assembly line at Opel's Rüsselsheim plant, which had been the first major car plant in Germany to apply the assembly-line production techniques pioneered by Henry Ford.

Even fuel consumption was, under most conditions, superior to that of the Volkswagen, and many commentators much preferred the Opel's handling and its light and effective brakes to those of the market leader.

From exhibits at public locations to large spectator events, such as Fritz von Opel's rocket-car stunts, the German public was excited about both the future possibilities of space travel and the potential for new " weapons of wonder " that could revive the German empire.

The Zafira A body was used in GM / Opel's concept hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle the HydroGen3.

The production vehicle was introduced in early 1994, and was built at Opel's Zaragoza plant in Spain.

Production began at Opel's West German plant at Bochum in August 1979, and the first British customers took delivery of their cars in February 1980.

Most of the engineering work on GSV based Opel / Vauxhall vehicles was done at Opel's International Technical Development Center ( ITDC ) in Rüsselsheim, Germany.

In March 1929, General Motors ( GM ), impressed by Opel's modern production facilities, bought 80 % of the company, increasing this to 100 % in 1931.

The first generation Gemini coupe's body was built by Opel's engineers in Germany and powered by a engine 1G13C 1300 SOHC made by Isuzu Japan and Holden Australia, the said engine's power was not introduced to the market, it was only used in rally and other racing events etc.

Like the CD, the SC was based on Opel's biggest contemporary model, this time on the Opel Senator, and was sold from 1979-1989 as a coupe, sedan and convertible.

He won the 1000 Lakes and RAC rallies the following year, but did not improve on third position in the championship, ultimately finishing behind Opel's Walter Röhrl and team-mate Michèle Mouton.

" Tramiel gave this account in many interviews, but Opel's Commodore didn't debut until 1967, years after the company had been named.

Besides, Opel's two sons participated in high-wheel bicycle races and thus promoted this means of transportation.

Other events which would powerfully affect Opel's future were taking place in 1948.

In February and March, a GM study group came to Germany to investigate every aspect of Europe's economic situation and Opel's special problems.

Like Holden's HSV and Opel's OPC, this company modified GM Daewoo models in South Korea and marketed them under the DPA brandname.

During the 2000s manufacturers started to emphasise the sub-brand of their hot hatch derivatives such as Renault's Renault Sport, Opel's OPC, Vauxhall's VXR and Fiat's Abarth.

Then Heywood Sullivan, Kansas City catcher, singled up the middle and Throneberry was across with what proved to be the winning run.

With the ruse thus revealed, the main characters run for their lives, resulting in a madcap chase across the stage with both Miles and Senex pursuing all three " Philia " s ( Domina, Hysterium, and the actual Philia — all wearing identical white robes and veils ).

A string is run out down the centre of the lane & wherever the jack lands it is moved across to the string and the length is called out by a sighted marker, when the woods are sent the distance from the jack is called out, in yards, feet and inches-the position in relation to the jack is given using the clock, 12. 00 is behind the jack.

A casino craps table is run by up to four casino employees: a boxman who guards the chips, supervises the dealers and handles " coloring out " players ( exchanging small chip denominations for larger denominations in order to preserve the chips at a table ); two base dealers who stand to either side of the boxman and collect and pay bets ; and a stickman who stands directly across the table from the boxman, takes bets in the center of the table ( hard ways, yo, craps, horn, etc.

Bus service across the bridge is provided by the Dumbarton Express, run by a consortium of local transit agencies ( SamTrans, AC Transit, VTA and others ) which connects to BART at Union City and Caltrain at Palo Alto and California Avenue.

Music commented that Jones's death " hit so many people so hard " because " Monkees nostalgia cuts across generations: from the people who discovered the band during their original 1960s run ; to the kids who came of age watching 1970s reruns ; to the twenty-and thirtysomethings who discovered the Monkees when MTV ( a network that owes much to the Monkees ' influence ) began airing old episodes in 1986.

The two longitudinal arches serve as pillars for the transverse arch which run obliquely across the tarsometatarsal joints.

Cross-border services ( e. g. Dublin city centre to Belfast ) are run primarily by a partnership of Ulsterbus and Bus Éireann with some services run across the border exclusively by one of the two companies ( e. g. Derry – Sligo run by Bus Éireann ).

Small valleys run north to south across the island.

In this effort, precursors of the National Conference of Christians and Jews created teams consisting of a priest, a rabbi, and a minister, to run programs across the country, and fashion a more pluralistic America, no longer defined as a Christian land, but " one nurtured by three ennobling traditions: Protestantism, Catholicism and Judaism.

Even though very little of Lesotho is covered in water, the rivers that run across the country are an important part of Lesotho's economy.

In the 1980s, some machine pistols, such as the Glock 18 were made with vents or cuts that run across the top of the barrel.

Mail exchanged across networks is passed between mail servers that run specially designed software.

The lower reaches are far more arid than those in the north, and they branch into ranges that run generally to the southwest across the province Balochistan.

Three main long-distance footpaths run the length of the mountain range ; the GR 10 across the northern slopes, the GR 11 across the southern slopes, and the HRP which traverses peaks and ridges along a high altitude route.

Skateboards, along with other small-wheeled transportation such as in-line skates and scooters, suffer a safety problem: riders may easily be thrown from small cracks and outcroppings in pavement, especially where the cracks run across the direction of travel.

These mountains run across the central region of Togo, ranging from the southwest to the northeast.

A wealth of Jobs would be created in the short run to feed a diversity of economic demands across all sectors of the economy.

Several countries run a series of national level events held as part of series ' throughout each of those countries and sometimes across country borders.

In 1920, the French newspaper L ´ Auto reported on a competition called " Les Trois Sports " with a 3 km run, 12 km bike, and a swim across the channel Marne.

One player is the marker, also called the " rabbit ", " chaser " or " puke " because they often have to run quickly between multiple handlers spread out across the field.

Stanza 32 details that a squirrel named Ratatoskr must run across Yggdrasil and bring " the eagle's word " from above to Níðhöggr below.