Opel Kadett

The scoring for the compact class cadet and his successor Astra (Latin for star ) are the most numerous models of Adam Opel AG.

Already between late 1936 and mid-1940 the Opel Kadett I was offered, but only with the Kadett A began in mid- 1962, the complete sequence of the series. The renaming of Kadett to Astra in the summer of 1991. Since the autumn of 2009, the tenth series is with the Astra J made ​​.

• 4.1 Kadett
• 4.2 Astra

Series Overview

Opel Kadett A 1962-1965

Opel Kadett B 1965-1973

Opel Kadett C 1973-1979

Opel Kadett D 1979-1984

Opel Kadett E 1984-1993

Opel Astra F 1991-2000

Opel Astra G 1998-2005

Opel Astra H 2004-2010

Opel Astra J since 2009

(Annual figures are for Germany )

Production sites

First production site of a Opel Kadett was from 1936 the main plant in Rüsselsheim. By the end of the civilian car production at Opel where over 107,000 pieces from the Opel Kadett I were prepared until 1940. The production of this pre-war model have been awarded by a decision of the victorious powers, together with the Opel Brandenburg plant of the USSR, 1946, dismantled and reconstructed in the Soviet Union. From 1948 the prewar Kadett as " Moskvich 400 " for the internal market of the USSR was produced until 1959 in Moscow then.

For the newly developed Kadett A Opel's Bochum plant was built in 1960, in the first exclusively from June 1962 this car was produced. The post-war models of the cadet are chronologically marked with letters from A to E, where the production of the Astra as a successor in Bochum, therefore, began with the Model Astra F.

The Astra -J models are now built in Gliwice, Rüsselsheim and Ellesmere Port. In May 2012, however, GM announced that it would move production to England, because 94 percent of the workers there agreed to pay to Waive. The previous combination variant Caravan as well as the five-door Astra H are produced together with the Van offshoot Opel Zafira B, and its successor model Zafira Tourer C in Bochum.

With the introduction of the Astra J, the combination variant Caravan in the other classes of the manufacturer has been renamed " Sports Tourer ".

Registration figures

In the German registration statistics, both the Kadett and Astra were long the " eternal second " behind the VW Beetle and later the Volkswagen Golf, which until 1983, the second place was cemented and could be maintained until 2000.

Since the beginning of the new millennium, the Astra in Germany, however, increasingly loses ground. So he lost his ancestral second place in 2001 and fell to 2003 and got to number 8 of the registration statistics back. The main reasons for this may lie primarily in the quality problems of Opel in the 1990s, due to which many customers Opel their back (see also: Lopez effect). The growing competition is likely to have played a role.

With the introduction of the Astra H in spring 2004 was recaptured in Germany the second place - but only temporarily. Meanwhile, the Astra is struggling with a number of competing models for the top places of the German registration statistics, where number one is out of sight.

As in the German market the Opel Astra H could not displace the VW Golf on the European car market from the top of registrations in 2006 and in 2006 in Europe only ranked 7th 2008 was the ten-millionth Opel Astra from the tape.

Registrations in Germany (Astra)

Stock in Germany

Cadet

Registered vehicles and temporary shutdowns / shut ratios ( first registered 1990)

Registered vehicles without temporary closures / shut ratios ( first registered 1990)

Astra

Registered vehicles and temporary shutdowns / shut ratios ( first registered 1990)

Registered vehicles without temporary closures / shut ratios ( first registered 1990)

Identical vehicles around the world

In the UK, the series is sold as the Vauxhall Astra since 1980. General Motors offered in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay a revised Astra G, Chile and Mexico as the Chevrolet Astra H Astra. In Argentina and Brazil, the five-door Astra H was sold as Chevrolet Vectra GT. In Australia and New Zealand, the Astra H was sold as a Holden Astra. Between autumn 2007 and summer 2009, the Saturn Astra is a slightly revised Astra H. was sold in the United States and Canada, The Kadett E was manufactured by Daewoo as Daewoo Racer mainly for Eastern Europe or as Pontiac LeMans for the North American market under license. After its construction at Opel, he was further built as Daewoo Nexia visually changed for the Western European market.