Thread 28700888

Quite surreal that Australians bought millions of Opels without knowing about it

Quite surreal that Americans bought millions of Opels without knowing about it

>>28700896
>millions
thousands*

>>28700888 (OP)
Europeons when they see something that resembles one of their precious shitboxes: OMG OPEL.
Don't you have a soccer game to get arrested for battery at?

>>28700888 (OP)
wasn't it like one generation that was based on the opel, then almost everything after was aussie made?

>>28701549
aren't they back to importing opels?
fordchads keep winning

(my car is 25 years old and the boot just rusted through)

>>28701585
Lol my 13yo fg2 is already rusting

>>28701547
>Don't you have a soccer game to get arrested for battery at?

sports have been delegalised in EU

they made them better

>>28702090
This, Germans couldn’t figure out pushrods but the aussies actually made it work

>>28701585
No, GM completely abandoned RHD for anything that isn't ridiculously expensive/specialised.

>>28702090
>>28702161
Opel did have V8s though
The KAD Opels had 2 different Chevy small blocks, the top of the line had the Corvette C2 engine.

>>28701547
Yeah yeah, enjoy your diesel Opel- I mean Cruze.

>>28700888 (OP)
Commodores and Falcons are some of the most overrated shitboxes ever

Shit like SSs, XR6 turbos, FPVs etc are pretty cool but theres absolutely nothing special about the basic 6 cylinder na shitheaps. They're comfortable on shit roads and made in Australia and that's it.

>>28700896
>Catera sales figures by year
1996) 1,676
1997) 25,411
1998) 25,333
1999) 15,068
2000) 17,290
2001) 9,764
2002) 237
Total: 94,779
So about those millions Anon.

>>28700923
Hundreds*

>>28702569
Opel aside what the fuck was Cadillac thinking? It looked like a honda civic, and nothing like the grand prestige Caddies had at the time

>>28702582
They needed something from their euro portfolio to compete with 3series and C-classes. It was a holdover until the CTS. And the art and science styling language that came out a few years later.

>>28702572
*of millions

>>28702569
cool it with the anti-semitism

>>28702566
Same thing could be said for German sedans.

>>28701547

>Opel makes Americans butthurt
only on /o/

>>28702587
I honestly think GM would've fared better at taking on BMW/Mercedes/Audi if they just started importing and marketing them as Opels in the early 80s. The yuppies who bought foreign would never buy a domestic car through snobbery, but they might've bought a car from a new German brand that undercuts all the opposition by $5,000, even one that looks like a Chevy Lumina

>>28705647
Ford tried importing Euro models with the Merkur brand with less than stellar results. GM just slapped "Euro" trim badges on garbage such as the aforementioned Lumina and earlier Celebrity and the like. Their foray into partnerships with Suzuki and Toyota brought about some of "GMs" best compacts like the Storm, Tracker and Metros though.

>>28705647
They didn’t (and still don’t) understand that market. Lower pricing for a better equipped product won’t win you any favour with yuppies. It’s why Apple did so well with them at that time and still does. It’s more expensive and not as well equipped, so they bought it in droves

>>28705647
Holden tried that several years back, for pretty much those exact reasons, it didn't work.

>>28701585
>aren't they back to importing opels?
Go outside for once in your life, Holden's fucking dead as a dodo. All that's left is General Niggers Special Vehicles for the die hard sad cases

>>28705892
Last one of note was the Calibra and it really was not a good car at all, not quite Camira tier but it was only slightly above one burning Astra and very expensive

Ford did the same shit. falcons were the same as the US ones until the XD which was just a bigger Granada shell slapped onto the 60's falcon chassis