As many different vehicles as General Motors makes for its own domestic market, it produces many others overseas that never make it home to the United States. Imagine our surprise, then, when a reader sent us photos of the latest Opel Astra on American roads. Previous iterations have even been sold in some markets as a Chevy, and in the United States as a Saturn. But that was two generations ago.

It was launched in September for the model year in hatchback , saloon , and station wagon known as the Astra Caravan forms. The Holden Astra was discontinued in Australia and New Zealand in , because exchange rates made importing Opel cars uncompetitive, and was replaced by the locally-assembled Holden Cruze. It briefly returned to the Australian market in , for the first time badged as an Opel, [1] but was discontinued after Opel withdrew from the country a year later. The Astra nameplate originates from Vauxhall , which had manufactured and marketed earlier generations of the Opel Kadett the Kadett D — and Kadett E — as the Vauxhall Astra.

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The company began manufacturing bicycles in and produced its first automobile in After listing on the stock market in , General Motors took a majority stake in Opel and then full control in , establishing an American ownership of the German automaker for nearly 90 years. The company designs, engineers, manufactures and distributes Opel-branded passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and vehicle parts and together with its English sister marque Vauxhall they are present in over 60 countries around the world. In the beginning, Opel produced sewing machines. Opel [10] launched a new product in he began to sell high-wheel bicycles , also known as penny-farthings.