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By Tim Beissmann
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Opel’s new city car, which recent reports suggest will be called the Opel Adam, has been spotted undergoing high-speed testing around the Nurburgring in Germany.

The German manufacturer is set to reveal the first official details of its new Fiat 500 rival, which may also be called the Opel Junior or Opel Allegra, on May 8, before it goes on sale in Europe in early 2013.

At 3.7m long, the three-door-only hatchback is around 150mm longer than the Fiat 500 and Volkswagen Up! and, like those two, will have four seats rather than five.

The Adam is based on a shortened version of a new platform that will underpin the next-generation Opel Corsa, and is set to share a number of new three- and four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines with its larger sibling.

Prices for the Opel Adam are tipped to start below 10,000 euros ($12,700), putting it in direct competition with the Up!, which starts a 9850 euros ($12,500) in Germany.

The Adam name would pay tribute to the company’s founder, Adam Opel, who founded Adam Opel AG in Russelsheim, Germany in 1862.

Opel will launch in Australia in the third quarter of this year with three models, Corsa, Astra and Insignia.


 

  • al

    good luck. Opel/Vauxhall/Holden. A brand so rubbish that they had to sell it under three different names, because they had no confidence to sell it globally as ONE BRAND and build reputation…Any good brand in the world is proud of its name internationally, can stand up to it and build reputation.

    • Doctor

      It’s no coincidence that Opel has the same number of letters as the slang word for “a piece of solid waste from your bowels”.

      • Captain Nemo

         Audi, Seat, Mini & Ford also have same number of letters as the slang word for a piece of solid waste from your bowels.  Are you saying Audi are s**t too?

    • O123

      Why sell a car when it has zero brand recognition. Vauxhall has recognition in the UK, opel in europe and holden in aus

      • Force-15

         Although that may be true, the Holden badge is now being used to sell ex-Daewoos instead of Opels. Besides, GM might be able to convince people to pay more for a car if it has a ‘European’ badge on it.
        What I reckon GM should have done was keep Holden as a more ‘upmarket’ brand by rebadging Opels whilst relegating the Daewoo-derived cars to the Chevrolet brand. That way the people who stick Chev badges on their Holdens might actually be embarrassed out of doing so.

        • Legnab

          YES makes you laff at the bogans who put bowties on their crapadore utes , in europe CHEV is a garbage brand , bottom of the pile .

    • horsie

      get a clue fool!

  • ABCDEFG

    I doubt over there they could build a proper and reliable car for $20,000. Especially tougher for them outside of Europe with no protection of the EU. They need BMW’s prices $50,000 – $300,000 to build a proper, reliable and normal car.

  • Opelman

    Opels are not bad cars, I can think of many more, perhaps the rubbish that Holden, a sister company sells. They had to get rid of the Daewoo name as it was a cheap and cheerful brand; evidently those cheap nasty cars are now Holden’s.

    I have owned several Opel cars and I have had nothing but good things to say. My current Opel is hitting 160,000 km without a single mechanical problem. Last week I replaced the battery, a battery that lasted 7 years, so a car with these kilometers and without a mechanical hitch, can not be classified as “a piece of solid waste from your bowel”. Evidently, my previous cars, a VW Golf, was absolutely rubbish, and the two Mazda cars I owned overheated all the time, and the build quality was questionable.

    At the end of the day, all cars have problems, regardless of whether you pay $15,000 or $215,000, so for those who bag Opel, I suggest you buy a bicycle, as the current cars you drive will fail you at some stage of their life. If you are looking for a car that has NO problems, you will be looking forever! Get over it!