Opel's model "Astra" declared the car of the year at the Geneva Motor Show in the choice of nearly 60 journalists.
The choice of a new model of the German Opel, a branch of the American General Motors and, could boost the manufacturer, which considers how to turn business in Europe, where for years loses money.
Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann welcomed the assessment of "the strictest jury in the industry" and said that the designers have made a spacious and elegant version of the model in 2015, which sold 130,000 copies.