On January 10, the first Opel Adam rolled off the line at the GM-Opel Eisenach plant in Germany. Adam is the only city car to be manufactured in Germany, and “represents Opel’s commitment to Eisenach and to Germany”, according to Deputy Chairman of the Opel Management Board Dr. Thomas Sedran.
Given that the Adam offers a vast array of individualization options, including more than 61,000 variants for the exterior and roughly 82,000 for the interior, the car represented a challenge for planning, logistics, and manufacturing that demanded great flexibility from the plant’s manufacturing line. To allow every Adam to be unique (yes, that’s truly the reality) , Opel invested about 190 million Euros to produce the Adam, which joins the Corsa at Eisenach.
Celebrating the milestone at Eisenach was high jumper Ariane Friedrich. The 2009 European Athletics Indoor Champion and multiple German champion drove the ADAM off the assembly line next to Opel Supervisory Board Chairman Steve Girsky. The GM subsidiary has received more than 16,000 orders for the Adam in Europe, according to Dr. Sedran, which represents a fairly good start for the model.
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If this little trollop is coming to North America , get them to shave off that lip above the grill before putting a buick vertical one in its place . That lip reminds me of my wifey’s many years ago while she still had all her teeth . Make the vertical bars narrower and more in the shape of the Enclave ie a little wider and narrower . Have it follow the hood line,,,,make it look like its got some game,,,,Lord knows it will need all the help it can get !
I seriously LOLed at “trollop” and the comparison to the wife. Good one!
Who said this is coming to NA? Even I would not buy it if they imported this from Germany, unless, of course, most of the parts were sourced from America. (Won’t happen.) They could give it a Subaru rack, a plush center armrest, a turbo diesel, and a SkyActiv transmission, and it would still not move VeranoHatch. I’ll take the German engineering/design and leave them their business/manufacturing practices. I have no interest in playing the replacement parts game. I’ll pay a lot up front for no surprises down the road.