WE’VE written extensively in these columns in recent times about the revival of the Opel brand and how, after an asphyxiating couple of years, the European arm of General Motors has had new life breathed into it and how cars such as the Corsa, Astra, Insignia, and Adam are now in the process of re-establishing the brand as a viable, serious automotive player once again, writes Declan Colley

The Opel executive smiled benignly when one of the international press corps suggested to him that, with the addition of a new baby — the Karl — to its model line-up, the company was somewhat overwhelmed by superminis right now.