Ok, thanks for the info! I think it also looks a lot like the current Astra. A car that has received rare praise for a GM product in the car press. Has GM moved away from plain rebadging?

Beautiful, seen through the eyes of a toaster.

It is amazing that the Prius and even the freshest of the freshest eco cars like this cling to basic elements of the VW “2000” design concept of the 80s:

Any relation to the Opel Astra?

Sounds a lot like a variation of the bug’s German “läuft und läuft und läuft und läuft und läuft”...

Never ceizes to amaze how this cannot be put to a better, civil use.

- Honey, were did I park my XC90?

So should that make for a wave of cheap used cars any day now?

It’s perfect! Shows that Toyota has some humour, and engineers who are true car guys. Accountants and marketing folk would never ever have come up with this.

There are actual commercial trucks with lesser engines. Hoow do your parents remember their behemoth?

Two stupid things I did to my beloved 1971 Volvo 145:

Oh dear, no, I’m not inclined to create one. But it would be interesting to get some stats on a car that has obviously become quite rare

I came off age when the Opel Omega under Lopez’ leadership totally destroyed GM’s reputation in Europe. Friend’s parents had two, where hardly ever both were drivable. That’s new car customers. I can still agree on that there must be some cars that are trouble free by now - statistics do improve slightly.

Agreed on this one. It’s extreme size and appetite for gas makes them cheap classics for now - I wonder how long it stays that way? The day you can plug’n’play a pocket fusion reactor, I guess they’ll be popular again. Fitting:

Wow. You gotta be determined to kill one of these. I had a ‘71 145, best car I’ve ever owned. It wouldn’t succumb to my bad treatment, so I sold it to its next abuser. Regrets!

Played around a bit with it - there are some data glitches, like y2k Volvo 1800ES’s, but it is an incredibly fascinating tool. Thanks a lot!

Cool - I didn’t know about the UK site. The rest is sort of as expected. A pity, really.

Thanks for the excellent reply. That’s assuming all existing Arrows are currently on Craigslist though.

I was thinking along the lines of a registry - is there a federal database for this kind of information? Some cars survive longer than others, and I guess the Arrow is one that could only be appreciated with a handful of decades between production and classic car status.

Sort of a pity. Sort of.