What are the chances that Opel's new roadster will come to the states. I know that a lot of things need to be worked out before it can be sold here, but do any of you think it we'll be able to purchase it here? I know I'd buy it. :D

Holy crap... Does nobody come in these forums? Yeesh...

I don't think it's supposed to come...but if it does it will be dubbed as a Buick (I think). But, not likely it will see our shores. Too bad.

A buick?

Nasty... I heard that it was gonna be a Pontiac... That wouldn't be so bad...

I'll put a 0.8% chance on this totally sweet car ever being sold in the United States by GM. Someone might get crafty and try to import some, though.

Well, The Opel GT when it was brought over here was often advertised as being imported by GM...so Buick isn't such a far cry.

(Look in the lower right hand corner)
http://theopelgtguy.tripod.com/11f3d85d0.jpg

Good Lord, this car is a beaut, though. Elemental fun for around $28,000. I'm so sold.

We already know they can re-badge anything they want to sell here. For example: the Cadillac Catera is an Opel Omega. I just don't think they will.

It'll be tragic if they pass up on this thing. I'm gonna move to Europe.

dont forget the opel kaddette / pontiac lemans

There was talk about it coming as a Pontiac, but it would cost too much to bring it over. Also, modifications for the US market would ruin it.

The Pontiac (named for a Native American tribe) LeMans (1987-1993, named for a French race track) was an Opel (a German car company) Kadette by design, but manufactured by Daewoo of Korea (using Holden-built or GM do Brasil-built engines). Talk about a world car!

curiously, opel have some kinda cross licensing deal and sold the design for the kadette to daewoo which they then produced as the nexia. slightly more rounded but easily recognisable.

http://members.aol.com/oddball123/nexia.jpg

i would buy it as a gmc, but definately NOT pontiac. even if a 25k Pontiac Zonda came, i'd not get one.

k, maybe I would, but you get the picture

Originally posted by Oddball
curiously, opel have some kinda cross licensing deal and sold the design for the kadette to daewoo which they then produced as the nexia. slightly more rounded but easily recognisable.


General Motors and Daewoo were quite close in the 1980s, just as Ford and Kia were...and Chrysler and Hyundai thought about it.

GM helped Daewoo by providing them with some old technology including the Opel Kadette and some Holden-built engines. The Nexia in those pictures was (is?) a later model since the earlier ones looked very much like the Opel version.

The four-cylinder engine in all Daewoos sold in the US are still basically Holden engines. Nexia/Cielo (and a couple other names it used) was (and is) the Kadette.

GM is currently negotiating to buy all of Daewoo, but there's a good chance the deal will fall through. GM offered an obscenely low bid...because Daewoo has a ton of debt.

Guys, please, it's Kadett, not Kadette

Originally posted by ales
Geys, please, it's Kadett, not Kadette

You are correct...my apologies.

Is anybody familiar with the cost/posibility of a private buyer trying to import one of these things over here. I'm not saying i would do it, because i have a feeling it would be outrageously pricey...but i am just curious as to how one would go about doing this, if at all possible.

Unless someone does it first, importing one would be PROHIBITIVELY expensive (many times the price of the car). If someone actually certifies one, then it will just be EXTREMELY expensive (maybe twice the price of the car).

Better idea, just wait for Lotus to import the Elise on their own.

Well the VX220 is sweet- but isn't it too light to be road legal in the US??? :confused: