Doggy's latest road trip

[lozz]

What new Vectra? I thought they have been replaced by Insignias? (What are they like btw?)

the insignia looks wicked , ive not drove one yet,
new shape vectra 03 -10 dont know if insignia as took over ithought they were from a difernt tin

[FarmerPug]

Ive drove both mk1 and mk2 vectras, the mk2 was an improvement but still no 406.
The insignia i was at the launch a few years back, its a nice car, quite germanic, solidly made. But its not really an audi, and its not as good as the mondeo.
Thats the problem i see with all vauxhalls they are overshadowed by something from ford.

[lozz]

Ive drove both mk1 and mk2 vectras, the mk2 was an improvement but still no 406.
The insignia i was at the launch a few years back, its a nice car, quite germanic, solidly made. But its not really an audi, and its not as good as the mondeo.
Thats the problem i see with all vauxhalls they are overshadowed by something from ford.

New mondeo is half jag.
vauxhall dont pinch ideas other companys do,
look at daewoo whos old rubbish did they buy

Theres good and bad in all cars ,
ipersonaly didnt like the 406 but ive grown to like it

[FarmerPug]

vauxhall dont pinch ideas

every car vauxhall make is a pinched idea off opel, who simply take a collection of GM parts and are told to build it within a specific floorpan so that the same car can be offered across the world bearing a few different badges.

[Captain Jack]

Vauxhall is Opel, Opel is Vauxhall. Just like Insignia is Buick Regal (or is it the other way around?).

[sirwiggum]

Other way round. Buick is a rebadged Vauxhall/Opel.

Makes sense in a way.

They sold the Omega as a Cadillac Catera in the states. It was always a nice car, though mk1s had issues with rust and head gaskets. Shame they did away with it, the NI politicians are still chauffeured in a fleet of bulletproof (as in the glass, not the engines) Omegas, getting replaced eventually by Skoda Superbs.

[lozz]

Vauxhall is Opel, Opel is Vauxhall. Just like Insignia is Buick Regal (or is it the other way around?).

yup mate
they all come out of the same pan,
just differnt factorys build them ithink,

[FarmerPug]

so vauxhalls ideas are never really their ideas.
This is badge engineering at its finest, similar to the peugoet 4007, and 107

[Welly]

Don't Americans have funny names for cars? Buick Regal - hardly inspires any, well anything

[FarmerPug]

chevrolet cruze, buick riviera, ford taurus

They still have good names like mustang, charger, and viper

[lozz]

Top trumps anyone

il get my coat


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