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#1
05-01-2001, 06:35 AM
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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.
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#3
05-08-2001, 03:47 AM
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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.
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#5
05-08-2001, 06:36 AM
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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.
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#6
05-08-2001, 11:09 AM
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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) 
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#8
05-08-2001, 04:58 PM
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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.
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#11
08-07-2001, 10:36 AM
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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!
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#12
08-07-2001, 06:42 PM
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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.
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#14
08-08-2001, 12:59 AM
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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.
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#15
08-08-2001, 02:06 AM
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Guys, please, it's Kadett, not Kadette
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