A hive of innovation in one thousand and nine its two seater doctors car used in a fission modular construction system and in one thousand nine hundred four opals for p.s. nicknamed the tree frog was the first german car to roll off an assembly line. the olympia made stay bew in one nine hundred thirty five at the i.a.e.a. international motor show in berlin a plexiglass model showed off its truss like car body framework the body and the chassis comprised a single unit that was simply mounted onto a pre-assembled drive train that included the engine most anticipated event of one nine hundred thirty six the berlin olympics and opel used the games to advertise the car to olympia s a company the olympic flame on its three thousand kilometer long journey from ancient olympia and greece to berlin he says back then opals ad men were just as innovative as their engineers. another ad praises the olympians interior it
We re taking a journey into the past in a technological trendsetter the opal olympia this one was built in one nine hundred thirty eight the olympia was a best seller and one nine hundred thirty five the year the model was introduced it helped opel become the first german manufacturer to produce more than one hundred thousand cars a year and that made opel europe s biggest automaker. it s the car of our time in the mid one nine hundred thirty s. that was opals ad slogan for its new mass production model says vintage car expert christophe mower and might not look very spectacular but i m sure it s nondescript exterior is a technological milestone the olympia was the first german mass production model to have a unitized body and uni body construction is still the standard in car making today so it s a good ticket as it s all downhill. from the early. twentieth century on opal was
Afterwards. trailer assist relies on many components that are already present park assist power steering electric mirror adjustment the rear view camera and the infotainment display all of these components work together to prevent the trailer from suddenly ending up in the wrong place. so he says that at first it was a bit strange to steer the car and the tree they re using just the little mirror adjustment but once you re done it a few times it s relatively easy especially because you can see the direction you re going on this infotainment display here. the go to not right host says the good news is three lyricist work straight away the bad news is it comes extra and you need to combine components to make it work for instance the review camera and the trailer hitch with the electoral installation kit system costs nine hundred thirty five euros and the trailer hitch another eight hundred eighty three.
Improve performance the bentley version had a higher compression ratio a sporty your camshaft profile and a crossflow cylinder head which is fed by these two as you carburetors this combination delivers a full one hundred ten horsepower which was quite something in one nine hundred thirty five and if that wasn t enough starting in one thousand nine hundred thirty six buyers could order the brand new four and a quarter leader and which produced a whopping one hundred thirty horsepower. money he says you have to develop a feel for shifting gears double the clutch of it employ a soft touch and you can switch gears without stripping them but. when you get it going the car gets one hundred fifty kilometers an hour and is a good travel companion even today no joke some of bentley and foods he has even
City s main square among the noteworthy buildings here this is the pilot s. one till nine hundred thirty five it was the tallest building in south america and it s now part of our national heritage but the money on us when i. say there s also the gateway of the citadel which is all that remains of a fortification that protected the city in the colonial era yes like now it s at the entrance to the old town. throughout the heights of pedestrian zone with shops restaurants museums and offices runs right through the old town halls he says your p.c. on the one of the dale has a million and a half residence almost half the population of europe lives with three and a half million inhabitants it s a small country. if this is the plaza my three say in the oldest plaza in town it s surrounded by