The Opel Admiral is a 4-door sedan / 4-door cabriolet from Opel, built from 1937 to 1977, when streamlining and independent suspension were arriving together. Under the bonnet: 3.6 . Clare MacKichan drew it.
How it came about
The Opel Admiral is a luxury car made by the German car manufacturer Opel from 1937 until 1939 and again from 1964 until 1977.
The hardware
Power comes from 3.6 . It weighs 1605 kg. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 3155 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Opel Senator. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Volkswagen Beetle, the Lincoln Continental, the Bugatti Type 57 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Opel stablemates include the Opel Sintra and the Opel K-180.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Opel Admiral — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.
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