My taste has changed somewhat... With a Dad who was a native German & a car guy, so there was always a near-genetic bias towards German cars. Mom & Dad had a pair of 356s “B. C.” (before children), and we grew up hearing many tales of their days in PCA & SCCA. I grew up wanting nothing so badly as a 944 Turbo.

Let’s not forget the vagaries of the Swiss car market, especially in the mid to late 20th century. No market in Europe bought as many US market GM products, including lots of Cadillacs, Suburbans, and Vanduras. A lot of this can be chalked up to the fact that the Bienne factory had long been building not only Opels…

Did they? I think GM is the only reason that Saab continued to exist past the 1990's. And as far as “stripping them of their expertise,” there’s no doubt that much of the powertrain research and development got rolled into other GM products, but the Saab Trionic ECU never appeared anywhere else, and was delivered in…

I love the Z8 but i also think there have been some gems since then.

you already do, New Armada is that. and its really good offroad too.

You should request authorship on Oppositelock so you can share more about your Jimny when you get it. I’m sure I’m not the only person who’d like to see/hear more.

I don’t see the issue.

Having checked my answers, I now present you with alternative facts:

Finally, I thought noone was going to suggest early 2000's Audis, and specially S and RS variants are trully great looking cars.

I prefer the original.

Hmm.. not the Mother I was thinking of...

“Shared” is a bit strong of a word. To make the VT the Aussies widened the Omega B and made some mechanical changes. Opel managed to stuff the LS1 in the engine bay for a couple of concepts but apparently they had overheating concerns.

Interestingly, GM always planned to bring a V platform car to the States, funding…

Couldn’t resist, even if I did make it a bit boring and conventional. Also, let’s stop pretending with those trendy fake grill patterns ok? That’s worse than the whole beaver look.

Clearly BMW is not ready to give up the gas business yet. Otherwise they would make this thing, ya know, look good, or something.

Paying in cash is better. I don’t know how you could even argue that its better to take out a loan when you have the cash to pay for something.

Fiat is in trouble because it has been utterly neglected by FCA for at least a decade, probably 15 years now. Their lineup, at least in Europe, is ancient, much more limited than before and not covering currently important market segments. This long term neglect would bring any brand to its knees.

Let’s be clear here: Opel never had a problem selling cars in Europe, and holistically, it never actually operated at a loss—you need to think about what was going on from both a regional and global perspective.

No no no, a million times no.

Guys, we need to talk about Oppositelock. For some reason Jalop staffers aren’t allowed to mention it/discuss it on the main page. It should have died a few years ago when you cut us off from front page mentions. Yet it’s still there, and although not as busy as it has been in years past, it’s still a pretty active…

Or you could join Oppo where the rest of us talk about our projects...