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Thanks for the insight. I watched this last month and it filled in a lot of my gaps in knowledge about Aussie car history.

They were the victims of GM’s insane obsession with making the front of every car as hideously ugly as possible for the last, well, at least 20 years.

GM still owns Holden, they only sold Opel.  It’s like how the Buick TourX is still an Opel despite GM not owning them anymore.  There’s some kind of arrangement.

They weren’t nationalized as such, but extremely high import taxes actually preserved their home-grown car industry for a lot longer than anyone might have ever expected and forced the big Japanese brands to build factories there back in the 70s when they wanted to move in, which were only recently shut down.  The…

Nationalizing Holden wouldn’t make any sense, because nothing is built in Australia. They shut down their last car factory a few years ago (it was Toyota). They’re just a badge brand now, which is why they’ve got no brand loyalty anymore. There’s a good documentary about the whole fiasco that recently came out:

I’m not entirely sure whether that was just an example of clapbacks, or what clapback even means anymore. Does it mean that annoying thing with using the clap emoji to punctuate every word or is it just people throwing shade online?

While this is obviously correct, hauling out a bunch of water for, say, a group without using single use plastic (even one of the big 5 gallon store-dispenser bottles) would be a bit difficult when you’re going to a place where there are no immediately available taps.

Unbelievably low dose, trust me.

I mean, cans are superior, but an aluminum bottle with a cap seems even better?  If budweiser can do it with beer, surely someone can do it with water.

I don’t think this is a ‘boomer’ take at all, this problem has been coming my entire life and I’m probably technically a millenial. It was becoming obvious when I was in high school and there was no focus on doing any of these more technical manufacturing jobs at all, it was either go to college for a STEM degree or…

Perfect time to look into importing an Opel front end.

Opel sells its own version of the Regal badged an Insignia, which Opel has just updated.

CP but given E30 prices these days, someone will buy it instantly.

I did have a look, the base prices start at $48k (turn off Tesla’s ‘subsidy and fuel savings’ function for real prices) and they while they do let you pick drivetrains, those are all you get to pick, so no way of pricing in extras.

Amusing side-note, I just bought an old computer from a seller in Korea (it’s a Daewoo) and their postal system lists the container ship that is bringing it over. I searched for the ship name on https://www.vesselfinder.com/

I didn’t know you could configure and price out a model Y yet?

Getting ready for the inevitable day when the UK becomes a republic is pretty smart, diversify your investments and buy property in a friendly country that speaks the same language.

I wouldn’t argue that the sport’s popularity is focused in North America these days.

I think the biggest problem with fanboost was that it was such an obvious gimmick that it really didn’t drive any fan engagement at all. The reason the big name drivers always won was because they had a fanbase that was willing to mob the poll, so you weren’t getting new people involved in the sport so much as you…