Opel 1.2 litre

The cars Opel 1/1, 2/ 1, 3/ 1, 8 liters and Opel 6 (2 liters) built the Adam Opel AG in Rüsselsheim, during the period 1931-1937. You were upon the types Opel Olympia and P4 (both 1935) and Super 6 (1937 ) replaced.

After former Opel cars nor the indication of the tax - PS resulted in the model name, after the takeover of the company by General Motors ( GM) vehicles in the U.S. newly developed were named only after the displacement. All were provided with conventional technology: page -controlled in-line engines, chassis of pressed U- profiles, rigid axles front and rear and cable-operated drum brakes. (1.3 liter Opel and 6: Box-type chassis with cross beam, hydraulically actuated brakes and independent front suspension with " synchronous suspension " )

Opel 1.8-liter and 1.2-liter Opel (1 liter)

As followers of the set of September 1930 Opel 8/40 hp with 2 - liter six-cylinder in-line engine of the Opel 1.8 liter was introduced in January 1931. The car reached a top speed of 85 to 90 km / h Until November 1933 a total of 32,300 cars of all versions were produced; from July 1932 to streamline the stern and all-steel roof under the new name Opel Regent. With a motor in about 20,000 copies has already been able to prove its technological advantages and economy.

The Opel 1.2-liter four-cylinder engine was released in July 1931. It replaced the Opel 4/20 PS ( " frog "). Until the appearance of the Successor Opel P4 in September 1935 101 563 vehicles were produced. Under the impact of the global economic crisis came in November 1932 addition of 1 liter of Opel on the market. With the beginning of the upswing in the German Empire, the only 5,600 - times -made vehicle was stopped at the end 1933.

Opel 1.3 liter Opel and 6 (2 liters)

The two successors of the 1,2 - and 1,8- liter models were the Opel 1.3-liter four-cylinder engine and Opel 6 ( with 2- liter six- cylinder engine), which were introduced in January 1934. That were also developed in the U.S. cars had on the new verwindungsfesten box frame with cross traverse a streamlined body with externally accessible trunk, hydraulically actuated brakes and instead of a rigid front axle Opel's " synchronous suspension " ( Dubonnet suspension ), acquired their license GM in France had. Until October 1935 Opel built 29,000 of the 1.3-liter model, which was replaced the same year by Olympia.

From the best-selling German middle class car of the 1930s, the Opel 6, 50,000 vehicles were sold by June 1937. From August 1934 to October 1936 Opel offered the type of specially for the taxi industry as a six-seater Pullman limousine with an extended wheelbase. Conceived in competition with the successful Mercedes 200 long wheelbase version was sold in 2050 times. With the same wheelbase of 3050 mm which is also six-seater 40 - hp Mercedes with 6550 Reichsmark (RM ) was about 30 percent more expensive than the Opel 6 Pullman with 36 hp, which was available for 5000 RM. These rates correspond to about 28,000 or 21,000 euros today ..

Had the successor offered from the beginning of 1937 the Opel 6, the four-seat Opel Super 6 in much the same chassis technology, a three -speed transmission with synchronized second and third gear ( Opel 6: Four-speed with no synchronization ) and the at Opel newly designed 2.5-liter six-cylinder OHV engine with 55 hp. In Olympia the four-cylinder version replaced with 1.5 liter displacement and 37 hp in late 1937 initially used, but technically outdated side -valve design of the Opel 1.3 liter. The SV engine was still used in Opel Kadett in up to the end of production in October 1940 and will not be produced after the war.

1 Regent: 2337 mm; 2 Pullman: 3050 mm; 3 Regent: 82 km / h