Car brand · Germany
Opel
From sewing machines to the lightning bolt, Opel has spent a century and a half giving Germany honest, affordable, eternally reliable cars.
Founding, year 1862
Themes: german, tradition, accessibility, reliability.
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The origin
What the date says
- Milestone
- Founding
- What happened
- Adam Opel founded a sewing machine factory in Rüsselsheim that his sons turned into a carmaker.
- Year
- 1862
- Source
- Historical documentation
- Note
- Founded in 1862.
Only the year is documented: if it falls between January 21 and February 21, the sign could be the previous one.
Keep in mind
Affinity is a symbolic reading from the Chinese zodiac tradition, not a measurement: it compares the sign of the year you were born with that of each entry's year of origin.