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| | Gliwice Plant |
 | | Gliwice, Poland -- The Opel Polska plant in Gliwice was built in record time: It took only 22 months from the symbolic ground-breaking ceremony in the presence of the Polish President, Aleksander Kwasniewski, and the German Vice-Chancellor, Klaus Kinkel, in October 1996 to the start of production of complete vehicles in August 1998. |
 | | The decision to locate the Opel plant in Gliwice, an industrial city with 220,000 people in Poland's southern region of Upper Silesia, was made because of several reasons. |
 | | The Gliwice plant produces the Astra Classic, Opel's best-selling model in history, in three engine versions: 1.4 (44 kW/60 hp), 1.6 (55 kW/75 hp) and 1.6 16V (74 kW/100hp), and in three body styles (hatchback, notchback and station wagon). |
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