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Nowadays?
Such a car would never get launched, as too expensive. This was still during the GM era, where there were synergies within the group 😊🤷🏻♂️
Opel GT - I didn't have one. But I would like to get a new version
Credit Opel. Slogan means that only flying is better. Credit Opel ...
Yours??
A friend of mine had one and used to go to Paris every weekend to meet his girlfriend. He often remembers these good times. Don't tell his wife.
It is a gorgeous car that I just about remember, at the time it was a poor man's Ferrari Dino.
Opel cars were never massive in the UK but I really can't remember the last time I saw one or read anything about them. Are they still a going concern? Marc
Opel (Germany) and Vauxhall (UK) were part of General Motors
Thus the distribution in the US by Buick, which at that time had no equivalent small sporty models of its own, unlike Chevrolet (Corvette, Camaro) and Pontiac (Firebird) What stuck in my mind was the manually-operated hidden headlights which flipped over ...
As long as your arm wasn’t broken 😂
Cable operated and manual - little that can go wrong 😉
Well…
For some time Opel was sold in parallel to Vauxhall but by and large the two have been respective rebadges of each other. They are still a going concern, albeit much smaller than previously and are a part of the Stellantis Group. Market share in Europe is...
When you say the reissue…
You mean this one? Picture from: ADAC Was quite a fun one, like a grown up MX-5. In Europe it came with Th a 260bhp 2.0 Turbo but I believe one of the US versions (was it Saturn?) also came with the LT-1 small block V8 👍🏻👌🏻 The original had a sensual desi...
Nowadays?
Such a car would never get launched, as too expensive. This was still during the GM era, where there were synergies within the group 😊🤷🏻♂️
Opel GT, Saturn Sky, Daewoo G2X and Pontiac Solstice all shared the same Kappa platform.
I think 🤔a Vauxhall VX Lightning was a prototype and may not have gone into production? This was two decades ago.