Opel Olympia Rekord

The Opel Olympia Rekord is a two-door family car that replaced the Opel Olympia in March 1953 and was marketed through 1957. Innovations included a modern Ponton-style body incorporating styling features from the United States, and the start of annual model year changes to exterior and interior trim. The car kept the Olympia name applied in 1935 to its predecessor model in anticipation of the 1936 Olympic Games. That first Olympia was a defining model for Opel, featuring then-revolutionary unibody construction.