page_title: Opel 1.2 Liter
section_title: Moving downmarket
hierarchical_section_title: Opel 1.2 Liter / Moving downmarket
caption_attribution_description: Opel
context_page_description: The Opel 1.2 Liter is a small car manufactured by Opel between 1931 and 1935. The 1.2 Liter was replaced in 1935 by the Opel P4 which was broadly similar but employed a new engine and continued in production till December 1937. For just one year, in 1933, the manufacturer also offered the Opel 1.0 Liter which was an Opel 1.2 Liter with a smaller engine. The Opel 1.2 Liter replaced the last version of the Opel Laubfrosch and was itself first complemented and then effectively replaced by the more roomy Opel Kadett which had itself already entered production in 1935.
  Opel was Germany's top auto-producer throughout the 1930s. Between 1932 and 1936 this model was the manufacturer's top seller.
context_section_description: For 1933 Opel introduced the Opel 1.0-litre which was a simplified version of the 1.2-litre power by a 995 cc engine. Claimed maximum power for this version of the car was 18 PS (13 kW; 18 hp) and top speed was down to 78 km/h. Production commenced in November 1932, but only one car was sold before the end of the year. However, by the time production ended after just one year in November 1933, 5600 of the reduced specification cars had been produced. Ending production of the 1.0-litre after just one year has been attributed to the economic recovery which was finally setting in, with the total size of the German car market increasing from 41,118 cars in 1932 to 130,938 in 1934. Also relevant will have been the abolition in Germany for new cars purchased after 1933 of annual car tax. This tax which would return only in 1945 was based on engine size, and the reduced taxation level attracted by its smaller engine had been one of the key selling features of the Opel 1.0-litre.
caption: The reduced specification Opel 1.0 was in production for only a year. Production began at the end of 1932.
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