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A poor man's car that made the country laugh. Until the rally. The Opel Manta was a car that made the whole of Europe laugh, but beneath the foxtail and the mockery, a true warrior hid. In this film, you'll discover the full history of the iconic coupe from Rüsselsheim, from its birth in 1970 as a sports car for young people who couldn't afford BMWs or Mercedes, through the birth of the famous jokes about the manticore and his blonde hairdresser and the cult films of 1991, to the secret, fighting side of this coupe. You'll learn how its sister Ascona 400, driven by Walter Rohrl, won the last rear-wheel-drive World Rally Championship title in 1982, how the Manta 400, with its racing engine producing around 280 horsepower, competed in the deadly Group B, and how the brand's dark roots can be traced back to the Blitz truck, the backbone of Wehrmacht logistics. This is a story about a cult and a curse, about a car that was ridiculed but ultimately has the last laugh, today fetching tens of thousands of euros at auction. Find out why this embarrassing Opel turned out to be one of the most surprising automotive legends. Music used in the film: "Eyes of Glory" by Aakash Gandhi and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" by Cooper Cannell. The photos are from archive.org and are publicly available.