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Originally Posted by Hylton
Many people on this board think of GM only as a North American company and don't look at the billlions of dollars spent globally on repetitive BS. Vauxhaul, Opel and Holden also need to be consolidated in the new GM. Anywhere you go in the world, a Toyota Corolla is a Toyota Corolla. At GM, the european division has to justify it's existence by taking a Chevy platform and changing everything to make it look different and calling it something else and visa-versa. Total waste.
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Lets see, since 2007 GM started selling the Saturn Vue here, Virtually Identical with an Opel, they sell the Saturn Astra, which IS a rebadged Opel, almost identical to the Opel version except for badging and other minor details, and also Opel sells a Version of the Sky Redline which is just a rebadge, and the tailights are different because of european laws. Also the Sky redline is sold in Korea as a Daewoo...They sell several Buick models in China that are virtually the same as the ones sold here. I could come up with others but you should see that your statement is incorrect.
Ford sold the escort also all over the world, BUT the escort they sold here was not the same as the ones sold in other places. The name was the same but the car was different, because they used cars built in those countries and just called them ESCORTS...same as GM does with many of it's cars, the name may be the same but the car is home grown.