The future of Opel has its own name and an image that already shows what the brand’s models will look like in the coming years. The German firm, part of the Stellantis group, presented for the first time in Spain the Opel Experimental prototype, an electric crossover that includes innovations that will inspire the generations that will follow the current Corsa, Astra, Crossland and Mokka, among other vehicles , this Thursday at the Pabellón Puente in Zaragoza, headquarters of Mobility City.
“We believe in the ability to create and dream,” said Vincent Lehoucq, director of Opel in Spain and Portugal, during the presentation of the new concept car, developed in the brand’s design center at lightning in Rüesselsheim, Germany. The manager highlighted the long history of a company born in Rüesselsheim 125 years ago and present in Spain as a manufacturer since 1982, the year in which the Figueruelas factory, in Zaragoza, was created and began to assemble the first Opel Corsa. This car, a best-seller more than 40 years later, is now in its sixth generation at the factory.
Opel designer Borris Ilsen explained the details of the Experimentale, which is “a milestone in the electric future” of the brand and demonstrates that “you can do more with less”. A car, he said, which has the size of the Astra and the interior space of the Insignia, which uses more durable materials and which can be used on a daily basis with completely guaranteed safety.
On behalf of the Government of Aragon, the regional Minister of Public Works, Octavio López, spoke on this occasion, declaring that this event “confirms the marriage between Aragon and Opel” and demonstrates the vision of a brand that is committed to making electrification a new reality at a key moment for the mobility we are currently experiencing. Mr. López recalled the square’s veterans’ memory of the photo of King Juan Carlos I inaugurating the Figueruelas factory in 1982 and did not hesitate to describe the Opel Corsa as “one of our best ambassadors on the roads around the world.
The event was hosted by José Luis Rodrigo, director of the Ibercaja Foundation, who has an extraordinary letter of introduction in Mobility City, a project that is already a reality in a unique space, the bridge designed for the International Exhibition of Zaragoza in 2008 by the architect Zaha Hadid, now deceased.
Rodrigo recalled the participation of Ibercaja in the installation of the Figueruelas factory by the American group General Motors, with the transfer of the land, and highlighted the important contribution of this factory to the economic development of the Community.