Start with what the Opel Super 6 is: a 4-door saloon / 2-door cabriolet / 2-door coupé with 2.5 , built from 1937 to 1938, when streamlining and independent suspension were arriving together. What it meant takes a little longer.
The background
The Opel Super 6 is an executive car which was built by the German car manufacturer Opel between 1937 and late 1938. The car was equipped with a 2.5-litre straight-six engine and had a top speed of 115 km/h (71 mph). It was available in three different versions: a 4-door sedan, a 2-door coupé, and a 2-door cabriolet.
A small number of custom-bodied cars were also made by various coachbuilders such as Karosseriewerke Otto Kühn and Gläser. The 2,473 cc (150.9 cu in) produces 55 PS (40 kW) at 3500 rpm. In total, 46,453 Opel Super Six were built in the two years it was available. · An interesting detail was the windscreen wiper drive which received its power via a mechanical linkage from the camshaft, a solution which Opel continued to use in post-World War II Rekord models until 1957.
The engineering
The engine is 2.5 . On the scales it comes to 1145 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. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Opel line-up the Opel Super 6 has a clear place: it replaced the Opel »6«; it handed the line to the Opel Kapitän; the factory was Rüsselsheim, Germany. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Volkswagen Beetle, the Lincoln Continental, the Chevrolet Suburban. Its Opel stablemates include the Opel Sintra and the Opel K-180.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Opel Super 6 — 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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