Opel manuals
Opel’s roots go back more than a century. More than 110 years of looking confidently to the future, of putting all our energy into making your drive more rewarding. More than 110 years of passionate engineering summarized in the three words of our new guiding principle: “Wir leben Autos”.
Adam Opel AG, usually shortened to Opel, is a German automobile company founded by Adam Opel in 1862. Opel has been building automobiles since 1899, and became an AG in 1929. The company is headquartered in Russelsheim, Germany. It became a majority-stake subsidiary of the American General Motors Corporation in 1929 and has been a wholly owned subsidiary since 1931. In 2010 Opel has announced that it will invest around 11 billion Euros in the next five years. One billion of that is designated solely for the development of innovative and fuel-saving engines and transmissions.
