The wonders of Google Eye or whatever it's called

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:17 am

Safe for work-ish...

Funnily enough, if you pan to the left, you'll get a lovely D9 parked outside.

sirwiggum · Post by **sirwiggum** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:25 am

Haha very good.

An unintentional moon

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 55.97,,2,6

DiscoPol · Post by **DiscoPol** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:58 am

I like it

try this one its ME
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie= ... 6,,0,10.65

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:03 am

My old Honda

eoin27 · Post by **eoin27** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:35 pm

Im confused, Is this a big google van driving all over the country taking billions of photos of each location?

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:58 pm

eoin27 wrote:Im confused, Is this a big google van driving all over the country taking billions of photos of each location?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View

A fleet of Opel Astras, even in the UK where they'd usually be branded as Vauxhall

sirwiggum · Post by **sirwiggum** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:32 pm

Spotted in Belfast.

GB reg'd RHD Opels (similar to those for the Ireland/Cyprus market) with big cameras on top.

eoin27 · Post by **eoin27** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:48 pm

Google EU Headquarters is in Dublin. That might explain the Opels

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:02 pm

eoin27 wrote:Google EU Headquarters is in Dublin. That might explain the Opels

Ah, you don't get Vauxhall over there?

sirwiggum · Post by **sirwiggum** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:09 pm

mjb wrote:
eoin27 wrote:Google EU Headquarters is in Dublin. That might explain the Opels
Ah, you don't get Vauxhall over there?

Ireland get Opels. Something to do with GM, when consolidating European branding, thinking the German name of Opel would go down better in Ireland than the Brit name of Vauxhall.

Cyprus get the RHD ones too, possibly again after independence from Britain it was felt a German brand would be a bigger seller.

NI usually has a fair percentage of imported Opels too, althought recently you're more likely to see an RoI registered grey import Vauxhall from the North these days.

eoin27 · Post by **eoin27** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:28 pm

It goes back a long way...when opels first came to Ireland, they branded them as such because there was still a bit of anamosity between the nations. Lots of british brands sporting the union jack have the same products here minus the flag. For the life of me I cant think of any right now. Like when all the street names were changed when we got our independence back in 1922! Thats the long and short of it anyway...

Post by **steve_earwig** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:31 pm

Opel - semi-precious stone, Vauxhall - place in Sarf Lundun full of tramps. Nuff sed.

sirwiggum · Post by **sirwiggum** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:37 pm

eoin27 wrote:Lots of british brands sporting the union jack have the same products here minus the flag. For the life of me I cant think of any right now.

Rover 75s? Even if I bought one here I would probably debadge that, just to be safe!

STALLED · Post by **STALLED** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:19 am

Funnily enough - they use Holden Astras as the Google Streetview cars here in Australia!

Not my photo, but it was taken near my old apartment!

Post by **Welly** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 7:48 am

You can bet your life that Google didn't pay a penny for any of the Astra's and Vauxhall 'won' the ability to donate the cars in return for advertising credit type thing....

I wonder if many people have been caught out by the street maps yet? you know like having affairs and stuff and being in the wrong place.

My car wasn't on my drive so I had a look again and it was outside my office (what a f*cking surprise - I'm always either at home or work

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