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Thread ID: 84457	2007-11-06 08:36:00	How Does Your Car Rate?	Laura (43)	PC World Chat

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608869	2007-11-07 01:38:00	We "Detroit-iron-types' NEVER mention these in the same sentence let along the same paragraph or even on the same page: "Holden = GM = Opel = Vauxhall or whatever" They are as disconnectedly miss-associated by design as a yo yo is to a shoe bomb factory . The last time OPEL was even allowed any association with the mighty Chevrolet name was when some bean counter got the idea of selling the "Mini Corvette", (laughingly the OPEL GT) in a decal-swap as the next best thing for people who could not afford horsepower and tire smoke and thunderous applause from admiring new-machos who wouldn't know how to drive anything but an automatic transmission slush box . That fiasco of that "car" soon died . . . . even though some small block experts got some REAL performance into the pipsqueak minibox by getting a 350ci/11:1 compression ratio, 750 horses Chevy under the dashboard of the stupid afterbirth of a car . Remember that most of the original OPEL junk engine was under the windshield/dashboard and made it really hard to take off the valve cover without dropping the engine a few inches . OK . . . so what's a Vauxhall? Is it a bread box; a pie tin? Perhaps a musical instrument? It CANNOT be the name of a real car . Sounds like an address: "I live at the corner of Vauxhall and Holden" . It might be the name of a sorority too: The Sigma Delta-Chi's of Vauxhall . C'mon . . . . is there such a vehicle with that name? Really? <I don't wanna insult Google by going there for a search . . . I have my scruples, ya know!> Vauxhall, apart from being a suburb in London, is an English car manufacturer associated with the Opel/GM conglomerate . Like Opel, Vauxhall is renowned for producing rubbish . Your comparison to a bread box or pie tin IS valid! :D	johcar (6283)
608870	2007-11-07 01:45:00	OK...so what's a Vauxhall? Is it a bread box; a pie tin? Perhaps a musical instrument? It CANNOT be the name of a real car. Sounds like an address: "I live at the corner of Vauxhall and Holden". It might be the name of a sorority too: The Sigma Delta-Chi's of Vauxhall. C'mon....is there such a vehicle with that name? Really? <I don't wanna insult Google by going there for a search...I have my scruples, ya know!> Ok I won't tell you that vauxhall is Jeremy clarksons favourite car, it is also the name of a suburb in london and a suburb of Dunedin, and the generic transliterated name for russian train stations See here (en.wikipedia.org) although there is mention of the motor company here (en.wikipedia.org) edit--------------- dammit must learn to type faster than Johncar	Morgenmuffel (187)
608871	2007-11-07 01:45:00	OK . . . so what's a Vauxhall? Is it a bread box; a pie tin? As I understand it SJ: GM = USA Opel = Europe Vauxhall = U . K . Holden = Australia/New Zealand The Holden's produced in Australia are re-branded as Vauxhall's in the U . K . e . g . Holden Monaro = Vauxhall Monaro over there >>>> The original Holden Commordores were based an a Opel design, hence the stupid placing of the electric window buttons between the front seats . Stand to be corrected though! :p	allblack (6574)
608872	2007-11-07 02:59:00	Well the Maxima (which is the new Bluebird, I believe) rates well in everything except fuel economy. Guess it's not too bad. Kind of random, but does anyone here own a vehicle with a 4AGE in it? I'm wondering what kind of fuel economy you get, better/worse than 10l/100km.	wratterus (105)
608873	2007-11-07 04:33:00	I agree - my Honda CRV is the one I entered on the LTSA site, but I drove a Citroen 307 HDI (1600cc diesel) for three weeks in Europe last year. Even at 170km/h (on the Autobahn!) I could get 5.5l/100km - the best I have had out of my CRV is 9.1l/100km, and that's using cruise control set at 100km/h!!! Senility creeping in! Not a Citroen, a Peugeot 307!! Doh!	johcar (6283)
608874	2007-11-07 05:20:00	It must be a sad country that dosent have Vauxhalls and Holdens	chicken one (6501)
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