Yep, that’s what torpedoed the Rover 75's launch. BMW’s CEO made a comment to the press in front of the Rover stand during the car’s auto show debut that they were reevaluating the company’s future and their role in it, and that became the story instead of the new car.

get rid of Opel/Vauxhall in order to push Chevy and Cadillac.

The Chevy brand is poison in the UK, that’s what comes of pushing shitty badge engineered Daewoos on us.

Global companies are generally struggling with Europe because of a depressed economy, post-credit crisis and our shit new age of austerity. Brexit and wider uncertainty doesn’t help either.

Chevrolet and Cadillac - or indeed any properly American car brand except for Ford - are never going to sell well in Europe in our lifetimes. Unless GM make their way back via M&A, this is surrender.

For German punk enthusiasts of a certain age, this Rekord wagon is the only Opel of any consequence. Here’s the cover of Die Toten Hosen’s 1983 album “Opel Gang.”

Ok - THAT was funny :^D

As a German I have to say, that was a great analysis.

Growing up in Germany, my perspective is more about Opel in its European home market - and that’s a bit different from yours, as you mostly focus on global and US perspectives. The VW Passat and Golf changed European volume cars forever. Until then, Opel was very much in the mix - if you weren’t going to buy a luxury…

Disagree. It’s the most important model to Porsche since 356, also 955 Turbo S was epic entry to the SUV party.

Well, damn. If it’s still listed by Saturday afternoon, my girlfriend is going to be pissed that I brought another car home.

The Cadillac looks better. Way better.

This is obviously nothing to laugh at…

down in Brazil...

I agree with this. What I don’t understand about this whole thing is why people are so mad. How many of them purchased the car because it was “clean” and how many purchased it because it got good mileage? If you purchased it for the mileage, then you shouldn’t be angry because you got the advertised mileage and if you…

Not gonna call it that, really. Like I said, I can attest to this article being representative of what’s happening here, but there are two sides of the same coin.

I am the most active Filipino Kinja user here, living in a city in the nation’s capital that is a usual drug haven. All these are true and happening. Also, I’m on mobile, so I can’t link lest this tab refreshes and I lose tge comment.

“vielen Dank”.

thanks for making me burst out in my over-quite cubicle office.