The 1965 Opel Rekord sat at a crossroads in European motoring, where postwar pragmatism met a new appetite for style and speed. It was neither a luxury flagship nor a bare‑bones economy box, yet it ...

If we were to take all 24 million Opel Kadett and Astra cars ever sold and line them up one behind the other, the column would circle around the equator two and a half times. Needless to say, Opel ...