Opel

The full name of the company Opel - Adam Opel AG. The company's founders - five brothers, Opel, and the name of the firm has received the full name of their father - Adam Opel, the owner of the company for the production of sewing machines and bicycles. The first Opel car was released in 1902 and had a two-cylinder engine. The production unfolded, the model was graciously accepted the consumer, but in 1911 the factory burned down. Reconstruction of the production was done in record time, and in 1913 the company has applied the first in Europe pipeline, has produced trucks. However, inflation after the First World War was the cause of the almost complete destruction of the company, and the brothers sold the company General Motors. Opel, aiming to win the car market of small and middle classes, became the largest automobile company in Europe. Opel Olympia Opel Kadett and became iconic cars of its time.

In the forties, the Nazi government awarded nearly factories General Motors - the company was nationalized. After the war, part of the plant equipment was exported to Russia - for the next AZLK. But the company, like a phoenix, reborn again. There were such bestsellers as Opel Rekord and Opel Kapitan.

Modern known for its Opel models Astra, Vectra and Omega. Interesting design moves the company: if BMW is too "licks" form, and Mercedes on the contrary, nedotachivaet them, Opel makes a ringing in the design of some elusive trait, which is called art.

The company now controls a quarter of car production in Germany in second place behind Volkswagen. The most common Omega, Vectra and Kadett.