The German-based vehicle manufacturing company, Opel, has recalled more than 47,000 of its family-sized cars. On Thursday, Opel cited making repairs to the electrically-operated hatchback doors of the Insignia vehicle as the reason for the recall. Opel said in a statement that the flaw can lead to the door suddenly falling shut. The recall affects models from 2009 to 2015. The Insignia, available... 

The picture shows Opel’s production plant in Ruesselsheim, Germany. A new poll shows German firms doing business in Russia are suffering from the Western sanctions against Moscow, with hundreds of the companies suspending or cancelling projects. The survey published on Friday by the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce showed 58 percent of the German firms polled said they had been affected by... 

Opel cars are parked in front of Opel’s plant in the western German city of Bochum on June 8, 2009. US auto giant, General Motors, has decided to stop car production at a plant of the troubled and loss-making German carmaker, Opel, after 2016. Head of the Opel works council, Rainer Einenkel, said on Friday that there will be no more auto production at Opel plant in Bochum, situated about 442...