Opel Front Camera Wins “Car Connectivity Award 2019

• auto motor und sport readers vote for front camera as “price-performance star”
• Basis for assistance systems such as Forward Collision Warning in Opel Astra and Opel Insignia
• Previous generations of Opel’s front camera have already won numerous awards

2019 Car Connectivity Award: Opel Insignia Grand Sport

Innovative Opel front camera has won the “Car Connectivity Award 2019”. The system, which is offered in the Opel Insignia flagship and the bestselling Astra compact, was voted into first place in the “price-performance stars” category by the readers of authoritative German car magazine, auto motor und sport and the podcast Moove. German brand’s front camera has already won many awards in previous generations and is standard equipment on several model variants. It is the key component of numerous driver assistance systems such as Forward Collision Warning and Lane Keep Assist.

Opel Insignia Grand Sport: Forward Collision Warning

Opel Insignia Grand Sport: Lane Keep Assist

Opel Insignia Grand Sport: Traffic Sign Recognition

Opel Insignia Grand Sport: Pedestrian detection 

“Opel has always made innovative technology available to a wide customer base”, said Vice President Communications, Harald Hamprecht, at the prize-giving for the “Car Connectivity Award” in Stuttgart. “The popular front camera is a good example. We want to offer our customers cars that are advanced as well as safe and comfortable. Readers want the same, which is why we are particularly pleased to win this award.”

2019 Car Connectivity Award: Vice President Communications at Opel, Harald Hamprecht

This year was the sixth time that readers of auto motor und sport and Moove have elected the winners of the “Car Connectivity Award“. They could choose from cars and technologies in 11 categories, from “telephone integration” and “price-performance stars” to “connected e-cars”. More than 12,000 readers and users took part in this year’s election.

2019 Car Connectivity Award for Opel Front Camera

Groupe PSA’s Turbo PureTech petrol engine named International Engine of the Year for the 4th year in a row

Today, the Turbo PureTech 3-cylinder petrol engine (110 hp and 130 hp) was named International Engine of the Year in the 1-litre to 1.4-litre category, for the 4^th year in a row, by the panel of the 20^th International Engine of the Year Awards in Stuttgart.

Groupe PSA has filed 210 patents for its family of 3-cylinder petrol engines. The new‑generation PureTech engine offers improved performance, fuel consumption and efficiency, with specific benefits including:

• a 4% improvement in fuel consumption on average compared with the previous generation;
• improved engine response time thanks to an optimised turbocharger (20% faster increase in torque from 1500 rpm);
• a 75% reduction in particulate emissions through the use of a gasoline particulate filter (GPF), meeting the Real Driving Emissions (RDE) conformity factor of 1.5 set by EU regulations for 2020, three years in advance;
• a more compact structure, to adapt to the new Common Modular Platform (CMP) dedicated to small city cars, core sedans and compact SUVs.

Launched in 2017 on the new Peugeot 308, the new generation is now being deployed on Groupe PSA’s vehicles across some hundred applications in more than 70 countries. The engines comply with Euro 6d-TEMP and China 6b standards.

The PureTech 3-cylinder engine is currently manufactured in France (Française de Mécanique plants in Douvrin, Pas-de-Calais and Trémery, Moselle) and China (Xiang Yang plant). In addition to production capacity being doubled in the French plants in 2018, the plants in Tychy, Poland, and Szentgotthárd, Hungary, will also start producing the PureTech engine in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

On this occasion, Alain Raposo, Senior Vice President, Powertrain and Chassis Engineering at Groupe PSA, said: “We’re proud to receive this prestigious award for the fourth year in a row, as proof of the skills of our development teams. Most of our vehicles are now equipped with this engine, which has been highly successful among our customers. This award is a global recognition of the competitiveness and efficiency of our petrol range, and in particular our PureTech 3-cylinder engine.”

!NEW! Opel Wins Renowned ‘2015 VDA Logistics Award’

Award winning: Exemplary integration of vehicle orders and material supply

Award ceremony in Leipzig: Jury-chairman Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stölzle (left) and VDA President Matthias Wissmann (right) present Michael Scholl, Director Supply Chain at Opel, with the ‘2015 VDA Logistics Award’.

Opel has once again been recognized for its innovative drive. At the Third Forum Automotive Logistics in Leipzig, jury-chairman Professor Dr. Wolfgang Stölzle presented Michael Scholl, Director Supply Chain at Opel with the ‘2015 VDA Logistics Award. It is the eighth time that the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) has presented the award to a company for its intelligent logistics system that can serve as a model for other players in the automotive industry.

“The system assists us to meet customer requirements on schedule while staying flexible. It also allows us to optimize the value chain and the production program. We can react quickly and flexibly to changing conditions while maintaining complete transparency,” said Michael Scholl, Director Supply Chain at Opel, at the award ceremony in Leipzig.

Strong team display: The hosts of the ‘2015 VDA Logistics Award’, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stölzle and Matthias Wissmann, with the successful Opel team around Michael Scholl, Director Supply Chain. 

Vehicle orders and material supply are the two central areas of work for logistics experts in the automotive industry. Opel succeeded in creating a close network between these two areas both organizationally and procedurally. The most important feature of the new system is that incoming vehicle orders for the production plants are controlled simultaneously in real-time under consideration of material availability, especially the material pipeline of overseas suppliers. Thus, order scheduling is no longer sequential but instead integrated. This also enables Opel to react quicker to changing conditions.

“This innovative solution is further proof for our `change your mind´ approach at Opel and our willingness to change the corporate culture. We changed organizational structures and, thanks to a cross-divisional team, introduced a system that allows outstanding flexibility – for the benefit of our customers,” said Katherine Worthen, Vice President, Purchasing and Supply Chain, Opel Group GmbH.

VDA Logistik Award 2015

The new system offers countless advantages such as transparency, flexibility, low material stocks and reduction of special material shipment to name but a few. Elsewhere, the customer also benefits from it because vehicle delivery dates can be maintained with even higher accuracy.

The system was developed by a cross-divisional Opel team, consisting of experts from logistics, materials management, order management, and IT in cooperation with IT service provider Flexis AG from Stuttgart. It enables a future period preview of 40 weeks and considers roughly 45,000 part numbers for 20 Opel models made in seven European production plants. 

!NEW! The Best Cars 2015: Opel ADAM Defends Pole Position

• Opel ADAM wins mini car category for second year in a row
• Over 112.000 readers of trade magazine auto motor und sport voted

The Best Cars 2015: The Opel ADAM wins the mini car category for the second year in a row. Peter Christian Küspert, Vice President Sales & Aftersales Opel Group, receives the award from Birgit Priemer, deputy editor-in-chief of trade magazine auto motor und sport and Ralph Alex, editor-in-chief (on right).

Opel ADAM is continuing to go from strength to strength. For the second year in a row, Opel’s individualization champion won the Readers’ Choice Award of respected trade magazine auto motor und sport in the mini car category. The Opel ADAM received 29.8 percent of the votes and even managed to beat the 24.2 percent it received last year.

The Best Cars 2015: Peter Christian Küspert, Vice President Sales & Aftersales Opel Group, proudly presenting the trophy for the ADAM at the award ceremony in Stuttgart.

“The ADAM is a real winner,” said Peter Christian Küspert, Vice President Sales & Aftersales Opel Group, at the award ceremony in Stuttgart. “That is not just our opinion. 112,000 auto motor und sport readers from 15 countries and 130,000 customers from all around Europe who decided to buy our lifestyle car obviously agree. And we have just added two new members to the Opel ADAM family in the Opel ADAM ROCKS and the sporty Opel ADAM S.”

Opel ADAM

Opel ADAM ROCKS

Opel ADAM S

According to the publisher Motor Presse Stuttgart, exactly 112,471 readers participated in the 39th edition of the Best Cars. They voted in eleven categories in both overall and import brand ranking, choosing from 386 models.