The Opel 4/8 PS is a Cabriolet from Opel, built from 1909 to 1910, when a car was a rich man's adventure and every maker was a workshop. Under the bonnet: 1029 cc.
Where it came from
The Opel 4/8 PS, also known as the doctor's car (Doktorwagen in German), is an automobile from the German automaker Opel.
Under the skin
Power comes from 1029 cc; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 525 kg. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Opel 5/10 PS. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Ford Model T, the Oldsmobile Model D, the Fiat S61 — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Opel catalogue sit the Opel Sintra and the Opel K-180.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Opel 4/8 PS has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.
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