Opel Kapitän (Kapitän, 1948 to 1951)

The post-war Kapitän of 1948 to 1951 was reintroduced in October 1948 as Germany's first post-war six-cylinder automobile. Occupation regulations prohibited civilian sales of passenger cars over 1.5 litres, so initial production was reserved for the occupying powers and sales to private customers started in 1949. It was offered only as a saloon, based on the 1939 version, with round headlights instead of hexagonal ones and improved leaf springs and dampers, and from May 1950 a redesigned dashboard with the shifter on the steering column. With 55 PS it could reach 126 km/h and needed 29 seconds to reach 100 km/h. Up to February 1951, 30,431 were built.