Founded in Rüsselsheim in 1862 as a sewing-machine maker, Opel added bicycles before it built its first car in 1899, the year recorded here as its founding, to match the automobile-only scope of this site.[1] It spent almost ninety years as General Motors’ European arm, from 1929 until GM sold it to the French PSA Group in 2017; PSA’s later merger with Fiat Chrysler folded Opel into Stellantis, its current owner.
Brand
Opel
Opel Automobile GmbH
- Founded
- 1899
- Origin
- Germany
- Nameplates
- 1
Identity
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Founded
- 1899
Nameplates (1)
Computed from every entry that names this brand, never a hand-maintained list. Each nameplate is a hub over its own generations.
Cars (3)
Every generation and halo trim from this brand, with the figures each one carries. Sort by any column; a car we have not sourced a figure for sorts last rather than as a zero.
3 of 3
Body style
Era
| Opel Astra F T91 | 1991–1998 | 110 kW | — | — | — |
| Opel Astra H A04 | 2004–2014 | 177 kW | — | — | 1,325 kg |
| Opel Astra L C02 | 2021– | 165 kW | — | — | — |
Sources & attribution
- Last verified
- 2026-09-04
- Origin axis
- Germany
Logo: File:Opel logo 2023.svg · Opel. Displayed unmodified to identify this car, editorially and without any suggestion of endorsement or affiliation. Commons records the file as public domain for copyright purposes with an explicit 'trademarked' restriction; the basis for display here is trademark nominative use, not a copyright licence.
Accent colour: Sampled from the mark's own SVG source, which fills its paths with no colour attribute (default black). Opel's badge is commonly rendered in a yellow ring on official materials, but no specific hex value for that yellow could be sourced from Commons or this file, so the mark's own colour is recorded instead.
References
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- [1]
Opel. Wikipedia · revision 1370872621 · read 2026-09-04
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