Opel
This is the catalogue record of the Opel Omega, one of 239 models Opel has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1986. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Opel Omega properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1980s were the decade of turbocharging, electronic fuel injection and the first mass digital engine management — Group B rallying and hot hatches defined its performance culture. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Jeep Jeep Wrangler, the Ferrari Ferrari F40, the SEAT SEAT Ibiza — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Opel Omega reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol / 1.8 L GM Family II engine#1.8 / Family II Inline-four engine / I4 / 2.0 L GM Family II engine#2.0 / Family II I4 / 2.4 L Opel cam-in-head engine#2.4 litre I4 / C24NE I4 / ; kerb weight is recorded at 1200-1459 kg; drive goes through 4-speed automatic / 5-speed manual / 6-speed manual (Lotus Omega); the layout is FR layout. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear. Production is recorded at 1,758,252 units, which makes it one of the industry's true mass-production stories.
Within Opel's own catalogue the Opel Omega sits alongside the Opel Sintra, the Opel K-180 (1974), the Opel Combo, the Opel 10/18 PS. The record names the Opel Rekord Series E (1986) / Opel Commodore (1986) / Opel Senator (1994) / Vauxhall Carlton (1994) as its predecessor and the Opel Signum (indirect) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at Germany: Rüsselsheim / Brazil: São Caetano do Sul / Yugoslavia: Kikinda (IDA-Opel).
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
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