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There’s much to celebrate at Opel during its 160th year, including 40 years of the Corsa and 30 years of the Eisenach plant. Today, the Rüsselsheim-based brand, now part of the Stellantis mega-merger, reached a production milestone of 75 million. The 75th million Opel was a hybrid Grandland GSe Jubilee edition* that rolled off the assembly line in Eisenach. (AutoInformed.com on: Stellantis: Record First Half 2022 at €8.0 Billion Net Profit)
Opel recently announced that it would revive GSe as a new sub-brand for electrified models with GSe now standing for Grand Sport electric. The Opel Grandland GSe follows the Astra GSe and the Astra Sports Tourer GSe. Opel claims it is a high-performance, plug-in hybrid with electric all-wheel-drive in the SUV compact class, arguably the fastest growing segment in Europe and Asia.
Grandland GSe combines an old technology 1.6-liter turbocharged gasoline engine with two electric motors, one at each axle, for a power output of up to 221 kW/300 hp (provisional WLTP fuel consumption, weighted, combined [footnote 1]:1.3 l/100 km; 31-29 g/km CO2). Acceleration from zero to 100 km/h is completed in 6.1 seconds, with a maximum speed at 235 km/h (135 km/h electrically driven). These are maker’s numbers not AutoInformed’s.**
As with its Astra GSe relatives, Opel claims that the prerequisites for the Opel Grandland GSe’s dynamic and fun-to-drive character (heard this before?) lie in its unique suspension and steering calibration with firmer springs and KONI FSD (Frequency Selective Damping) dampers, or what were once called shock absorbers. This allows different damping characteristics for improved handling and comfort.
“The 75 million Opel vehicles is a real milestone in the history of Opel’s car production. This impressive figure shows Opel’s important role in democratizing technologies and mobility solutions over the decades and for the future. We are redefining mobility – with the clear goal of becoming a fully electric brand in Europe by 2028, with cars that offer driving pleasure with responsibility. Our new sporty and electrified GSe models are another step in this direction,” said Opel CEO Florian Huettl.
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**Inevitable Opel Footnotes
[1] The provisional fuel consumption and CO2 emissions figures mentioned comply with the WLTP homologation (regulation EU 2017/948). From 1 September 2018, new vehicles are type-approved using the World Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP), which is a new, more realistic test procedure for measuring fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. The WLTP fully replaces the New European Drive Cycle (NEDC), which was the test procedure used previously. Due to more accurate test conditions, the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions measured under the WLTP are in many cases higher compared to those measured under the NEDC. The fuel consumption and CO2 emissions figures may vary depending on specific equipment, options and format of tires.
Opel Production Milestones
With its 75-millionth vehicle, Opel has launched many bestsellers during more than 120 years of automobile production. With models such as the 4/8 hp “Doktorwagen” from 1909 or the 4/12 hp “Laubfrosch”, Opel turned a prestige vehicle for the well-off into cars for a much broader public at an early stage.
In 1940, the one-millionth Opel was produced, a Kapitän with a self-supporting body and independent front suspension, a design with its low weight improved driving performance and lowered fuel consumption at that time. The two-millionth automobile with the lightning bolt logo arrived in 1956 – also a Kapitän. Opel was the first German manufacturer at the time to achieve such high production figures. *(Opel turns the “Jubilee” vehicle into a unique car. The “flagship” of the brand is a cream-white Opel with a coating of 24-carat gold on all chrome parts.)
The “millions” arrived faster and faster in the following years. The increase in production speed is not only an expression of rapidly the increase in automobility, but also the result of production becoming ever more efficient. Just
Only 15 years later, in 1971, the ten-millionth Opel rolls off the production line at the Rüsselsheim plant: a Rekord C Caravan. A jubilee that is also celebrated in a big way. One Opel each from the daily production of the “ten-millionth” is given to the minister presidents of those federal states in which Opel had plants at the time: Hesse (Rüsselsheim), North Rhine-Westphalia (Bochum) and Rhineland-Palatinate (Kaiserslautern).
In 1983, a silver-grey Senator CD is the 20-millionth Opel to leave the production plant in Rüsselsheim. And in the same decade the 25-millionth Opel model – an Omega A Caravan – is produced at the Opel’s headquarters. The Omega A is the brand’s top model from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, and the small Opel Corsa and the Kadett successor Astra also become successful million-sellers in the compact class.
After German reunification, ~4.13 million Astra F models roll off the production line between 1991 and 1997. This makes it the best-selling Opel model to this day. The honor of the 50-millionth Opel car was once again conferred on Omega, leaving the plant in December 1999 as a silver sedan of the then c updated B-generation.
The latest milestone is the 75-millionth Opel. With the new Grandland GSe, Opel claims that the brand exemplifies how sporty driving pleasure can be responsibly combined with emotional design and everyday practicality.
Milestones: 75 millionth Opel – Grandland GSe
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There’s much to celebrate at Opel during its 160th year, including 40 years of the Corsa and 30 years of the Eisenach plant. Today, the Rüsselsheim-based brand, now part of the Stellantis mega-merger, reached a production milestone of 75 million. The 75th million Opel was a hybrid Grandland GSe Jubilee edition* that rolled off the assembly line in Eisenach. (AutoInformed.com on: Stellantis: Record First Half 2022 at €8.0 Billion Net Profit)
Opel recently announced that it would revive GSe as a new sub-brand for electrified models with GSe now standing for Grand Sport electric. The Opel Grandland GSe follows the Astra GSe and the Astra Sports Tourer GSe. Opel claims it is a high-performance, plug-in hybrid with electric all-wheel-drive in the SUV compact class, arguably the fastest growing segment in Europe and Asia.
Grandland GSe combines an old technology 1.6-liter turbocharged gasoline engine with two electric motors, one at each axle, for a power output of up to 221 kW/300 hp (provisional WLTP fuel consumption, weighted, combined [footnote 1]:1.3 l/100 km; 31-29 g/km CO2). Acceleration from zero to 100 km/h is completed in 6.1 seconds, with a maximum speed at 235 km/h (135 km/h electrically driven). These are maker’s numbers not AutoInformed’s.**
As with its Astra GSe relatives, Opel claims that the prerequisites for the Opel Grandland GSe’s dynamic and fun-to-drive character (heard this before?) lie in its unique suspension and steering calibration with firmer springs and KONI FSD (Frequency Selective Damping) dampers, or what were once called shock absorbers. This allows different damping characteristics for improved handling and comfort.
“The 75 million Opel vehicles is a real milestone in the history of Opel’s car production. This impressive figure shows Opel’s important role in democratizing technologies and mobility solutions over the decades and for the future. We are redefining mobility – with the clear goal of becoming a fully electric brand in Europe by 2028, with cars that offer driving pleasure with responsibility. Our new sporty and electrified GSe models are another step in this direction,” said Opel CEO Florian Huettl.
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**Inevitable Opel Footnotes
[1] The provisional fuel consumption and CO2 emissions figures mentioned comply with the WLTP homologation (regulation EU 2017/948). From 1 September 2018, new vehicles are type-approved using the World Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP), which is a new, more realistic test procedure for measuring fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. The WLTP fully replaces the New European Drive Cycle (NEDC), which was the test procedure used previously. Due to more accurate test conditions, the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions measured under the WLTP are in many cases higher compared to those measured under the NEDC. The fuel consumption and CO2 emissions figures may vary depending on specific equipment, options and format of tires.
Opel Production Milestones
With its 75-millionth vehicle, Opel has launched many bestsellers during more than 120 years of automobile production. With models such as the 4/8 hp “Doktorwagen” from 1909 or the 4/12 hp “Laubfrosch”, Opel turned a prestige vehicle for the well-off into cars for a much broader public at an early stage.
In 1940, the one-millionth Opel was produced, a Kapitän with a self-supporting body and independent front suspension, a design with its low weight improved driving performance and lowered fuel consumption at that time. The two-millionth automobile with the lightning bolt logo arrived in 1956 – also a Kapitän. Opel was the first German manufacturer at the time to achieve such high production figures. *(Opel turns the “Jubilee” vehicle into a unique car. The “flagship” of the brand is a cream-white Opel with a coating of 24-carat gold on all chrome parts.)
The “millions” arrived faster and faster in the following years. The increase in production speed is not only an expression of rapidly the increase in automobility, but also the result of production becoming ever more efficient. Just
Only 15 years later, in 1971, the ten-millionth Opel rolls off the production line at the Rüsselsheim plant: a Rekord C Caravan. A jubilee that is also celebrated in a big way. One Opel each from the daily production of the “ten-millionth” is given to the minister presidents of those federal states in which Opel had plants at the time: Hesse (Rüsselsheim), North Rhine-Westphalia (Bochum) and Rhineland-Palatinate (Kaiserslautern).
In 1983, a silver-grey Senator CD is the 20-millionth Opel to leave the production plant in Rüsselsheim. And in the same decade the 25-millionth Opel model – an Omega A Caravan – is produced at the Opel’s headquarters. The Omega A is the brand’s top model from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, and the small Opel Corsa and the Kadett successor Astra also become successful million-sellers in the compact class.
After German reunification, ~4.13 million Astra F models roll off the production line between 1991 and 1997. This makes it the best-selling Opel model to this day. The honor of the 50-millionth Opel car was once again conferred on Omega, leaving the plant in December 1999 as a silver sedan of the then c updated B-generation.
The latest milestone is the 75-millionth Opel. With the new Grandland GSe, Opel claims that the brand exemplifies how sporty driving pleasure can be responsibly combined with emotional design and everyday practicality.