Euro Cavs plus

Speaking to CRJ last night I decided to share how the Vauxhall Cav looked in England and other Vauxhall/GM Products.

Mk2 Cavalier
http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=171

same from behind
http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=173

Mk3 Astra
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v434/simon_parsons/turd-3.jpg

mk2 astra sold here as a pontiac! Can't remember the model name!
http://members.aol.com/Geomaster124/New04.jpg

Vauxhall Calibra
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/smurfster/calibra/v6/DSCF0069small.jpg

Vauxhall Tigra
http://81.144.135.218/tigra_small.jpg

Mk1 cav vert
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/doctor13702/thecabby.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/doctor13702/cav_side2.jpg

Astra's EcoTec Engine Cover!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/leemarksmith/EngineBay.jpg

Manta
http://img40.exs.cx/img40/4559/MantaFrontDS.jpg

Mk4 Astra Coupe
http://img40.exs.cx/img40/3260/888PIC.jpg
Some of these had Turbo's EcoTecs putting out 220hp!

Lotus Carlton
http://www.algonet.se/~steeng/photos/lot1s.jpg
these did over 155mph 0-60 in about 4.9 secs using a lotus Engine. In the rest of Europe they were an Opel Omega and the next gen in England adopted the Omega Moniker.

The Omega
http://www.abstyling.co.uk/bodykits/images/vauxhall/omega_1.jpg
Anyone Recognise it? That’s right Cadillac Catera! Also the Holden that become the GTO was Austrlais 2 door verion of this car! So the GTO is a 2-door Catera with a V8!

Very interesting, noshun. Did you take these your self in England? JK

Is it true that the Mk2 Cav was sold in Japan as a Toyota? Heard that somewhere.

Look at my car. Invisage some sunfire 15's The slant spoe ones and then you have a toyota cavalier. Not sure about the 2nd gen but 3rd yes!

Now how does that work, does toyota get the money? Why can't Chevy just sell them as Chevys? Is it like Nissan/Datsun, where Nissan was afriad no one would buy them if they were Nissans, so they sold them as Datsun?

I feel more interesting info brewing in NOSHUN's brain...

Datsun was Worldwide and was actually the Initials of all the Investors that got the company running. Nissan was always the background name. in the late eighties they were Datsun Nissans! But they thought Nissan was better and I actually believe that it was tow words combined to make Nissan something to do with where it strated and some guy. The Toyota things come from Gm long time affiliation with them hance the similarites between the Matrix and Pontiac Vibe. Gm would have split the profit from the Toyota cav. I would imagine that Gm would have presented them with the idea and not vice versa. I believe toyota helped in the development of the quad fours and the ld9. However else could GM makes a 2.3 make 190hp?!?!?!?! Thats Honda results! Although whoever had the idea for the IDI plate was a buffoon! Looks cool but is a pain in the ass! Gm would have paid to ship parts over to Toyota as I doubt they assembled them in Japan that would have cost even more. I guess GM did it to test the market for the kind of Vehicle that the Cav Z24 is although I don't think they sold particulalry well and lets face it it's not ever going to be a collector car is it?

*Drools*.... i like seeing a preview of somthing b4 its posted. Very nice cars as we discussed man.

*Drools*.... i like seeing a preview of somthing b4 its posted. Very nice cars as we discussed man.

Gonna post pics of my cav on that forum so they can see how it's done this side of the pond. Probably some modded ones too! Also how cool would it be to fit that bodykit on the Omega above on a Catera running 20's?

Like I said before...

Very Interesting, I like this kind of information.

"Input, more input!" LOL

Ok johnny 5

Another good movie...

i thought the GTO was Based on the holden monaro or hsv coupe ? thats wat i read in car and driver a while ago but i could be wrong i seem to trust noshun more then my magazines nowadays

i thought the GTO was Based on the holden monaro or hsv coupe ? thats wat i read in car and driver a while ago but i could be wrong i seem to trust noshun more then my magazines nowadays

No no you're correct. The holden Monaro. The Coupe HSV! The HSV is the Same car as the Catera and Omega!!! Just a LOT more hardcore!

yeah i know i drive it when i play nfshp2 when im bored it is a full out beast