Opel Adam

For the person, see Adam Opel.

Opel Adam

Opel Adam
Opel Vauxhall
aka	Vauxhall Adam (United Kingdom)
Production	2012–2019
Class	City car (A)
Body Style	{{{Body Style}}}
Length	3,698 mm (145.6 in)
Width	1,720 mm (67.7 in)
Height	1,484 mm (58.4 in)
Wheelbase	2,311 mm (91.0 in)
Weight	{{{Weight}}}
Transmission	{{{Transmission}}}
Engine	1.0 L B10XFL/XFT I3 turbo (petrol) 1.2 L A12XEL (LWD) I4 (petrol) 1.4 L A14XEL (L2Z) I4 (petrol)
Power	{{{Power}}}
Similar	Opel Corsa
Designer	Darren Luke

The Opel Adam is a city car engineered and produced by the German car manufacturer Opel, and is named after the company's founder Adam Opel. It was sold under the Vauxhall marque in the United Kingdom. It was launched in France at the 2012 Paris Motor Show, with sales starting in the beginning of 2013.

On 10 October 2018, Opel and its British subsidiary, Vauxhall, announced that in order to optimise its model lineup and focus on high volume segments, the company would retire its Adam, Karl, Cascada and Viva models after the end of their life cycles, in approximately one year.

Overview

The car was available in three different trim levels and a wide choice of exterior colours, as well as three roof colours, different interior colours, decors and various headliners. The Adam is claimed to have over 61,000 combination possibilities for the exterior and over 82,000 for the interior. Production began at the Eisenach plant in Germany in January 2013, beside the Corsa.

The Adam is based on a shortened version of the Corsa D platform. The three door hatchback measures 3.70 metres in length and 1.72 metres in width, and seats four people.

Awards

The Opel Adam won the Red Dot Car Design Award in April 2013. In November 2012, Auto Zeitung readers in Germany voted for Opel Adam as the number one city car. In the 38th Readers’ Choice Award of the trade magazine Auto Motor und Sport, the car won the mini car category with 24.2 percent of the votes, beating the Volkswagen up! (23.9 percent) and the Mini (16.6 percent).

Engine

From launch, there were a choice of three engines: 1.2 L 70PS (124 g/km CO2), and 1.4 L with 87 PS and 100 PS (129 g/km CO2). All engines are available in ecoFLEX mode with lower CO2 emission, 1.2 ecoFLEX with 118 g/km and 1.4s with 119 g/km. From spring 2014, Opel introduced a 1.0 three cylinder SIDI Turbo engine.

Adam R2

Opel presented the study of the Adam R2 for the FIA Rally Regulations R2 at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland. It is largely based on the Adam Cup. The Adam R2 is powered by a 1.6 litre naturally aspirated engine making 182 hp (136 kW) and 140 lb⋅ft (190 N⋅m) of torque. Three cars were entered into the 2015 European Rally Championship.

Adam by Bitter

Bitter has been producing a luxury version of the Adam since 2014 as the Opel Adam by Bitter.[9] The differences between the Bitter and Opel versions are mainly cosmetic.

Sales

Opel had planned to sell between 40,000 and 50,000 units a year in Europe, and sold over 45,000 in its first year, though sales were still in start up mode in the first two months of 2013. Year over year, sales increased every month in the first four months of 2014.

The Opel Adam was not sold in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Chile as well as in CIS countries. Singapore was one of the few markets outside Europe which sold the Opel Adam.

Gallery

Adam

Adam Rocks

This page uses some content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Opel Adam. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Autopedia, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.