Opel Olympia (Olympia OL38, 1937 to 1949)

The Olympia OL38 was the revised Opel Olympia of 1937 to 1940, produced again from 1947 to 1949. It received a new and larger overhead-valve engine of 1,488 cc making some 50 percent more power, 37 PS, for a top speed of 112 km/h, and a revised body that was a facelift, added a four-door saloon and made the car 7 cm wider and 9 cm longer on a 6 cm longer wheelbase. It came as a two-door four-light saloon, a four-door six-light saloon and a two-door cabriolet. Production halted in late 1940 because of the war and restarted in December 1947 after the Rüsselsheim plant was reconstructed; 25,952 were made until the end of 1949.