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It's the car that brought front-wheel drive to Opel's family car range. For fans of older European vehicles, the Opel Ascona isn’t exactly special per se but there’s more to it than you might ...
Farias maintains a “majority stake” in New England-based Opels, with a total of seven cars from the Russelsheim manufacturer, and uses this 1972 Opel 1900 Sport Wagon, or the Ascona as it was ...
Having participated in the traveling race car sideshow that is Drag Week as spectators, they caught the bug and shipped their Stockholm Openwinning 1973 Opel Ascona stateside to take part in the ...
Back in the 1970s German automaker Opel was setting new trends with ... with the Manta being a dynamic sports coupe and the Ascona a comfortable family car or compact lifestyle station wagon.
Later on in the 1970s, Isuzu-built Opels showed up in American Buick showrooms with puzzling badging (including cars called "Buick Opels" for a brief period). Eventually, the Opel Omega came over ...
Ascona B sales ended in 1981, after more than 1.2 million units, with the introduction of the front-wheel-drive C-series Ascona – aka the Cavalier Mk2.Vauxhall and Opel’s dealers merged that ...
You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics. Traditionally, when two cars go on a race, the thinking is that both cars should be evenly matched. After all, when only two cars are ...
Such a crash happened during a Belgium rally, where the driver of a second-generation Opel Ascona lost control of the car on some mud trails and ended up hitting a not very well-made brick shed.
Having participated in the traveling race car sideshow that is Drag Week as spectators, they caught the bug and shipped their Stockholm Openwinning 1973 Opel Ascona stateside to take part in the ...