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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: omegod on 29 December 2015, 21:02:50
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Spotted this on another forum and thought worth sharing, Opel Rekford with a 3.8 V6, south African only but made in 92. I must say i'm rather taken with it ! Anyone come across them before ?
http://www.carmag.co.za/road_test/from-the-archives-opel-rekord-380i-gsi/
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You want to see some of the other cars gm released in SA but not Europe. :),
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Now there's an idea... That 3.8 lump is readily available in supercharged form... :-\
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You want to see some of the other cars gm released in SA but not Europe. :),
Pray tell !
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I know they did a[early]Senator in 4L form,saw one at Billing years ago.Other than that I've seen examples of V8 Capri and V8 Sierra that were South African only?But the ones I saw had been imported into blighty.
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I know they did a[early]Senator in 4L form,saw one at Billing years ago.Other than that I've seen examples of V8 Capri and V8 Sierra that were South African only?But the ones I saw had been imported into blighty.
The [late] Senator was indeed available as 4.0 (as an Irmsher). Very nice with 270 odd GeeGee's.
As for the Rekord, 170 BHP from that bloody great big lump.... No ta.
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The 4L Senator I saw a Billing was definitely an early car Series 1 or 1 1/2 with the chrome bumpers.Even remember it was Brown over Gold :o Wasn't on ABS stand though,got a picture of it somewhere or other ::)
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Now there's an idea... That 3.8 lump is readily available in supercharged form... :-\
It needs to be, too, because it's seriously asthmatic in NA form.
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A V8 mk2 Granada was also available, there was one for sale on the bay a few years back.
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Now there's an idea... That 3.8 lump is readily available in supercharged form... :-\
It needs to be, too, because it's seriously asthmatic in NA form.
Ignoring the obvious insanity comments, will that block bolt onto the Omega V6 manual box?
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I know they did a[early]Senator in 4L form,saw one at Billing years ago.Other than that I've seen examples of V8 Capri and V8 Sierra that were South African only?But the ones I saw had been imported into blighty.
They also got the 3.0 V6 right upto the end of production... V8 was the 5.0 iirc :-\
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I wonder why GM beefed up European models for SA when they could have just shipped in Holdens. :-\ The Saffer's would have loved them! :y Still would come to think about it... ::)
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I wonder why GM beefed up European models for SA when they could have just shipped in Holdens. :-\ The Saffer's would have loved them! :y Still would come to think about it... ::)
Colonial politics ;)
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I wonder why GM beefed up European models for SA when they could have just shipped in Holdens. :-\ The Saffer's would have loved them! :y Still would come to think about it... ::)
Colonial politics ;)
I thought that was an arms and Kit Kat embargo.... :-\ ::)
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I wonder why GM beefed up European models for SA when they could have just shipped in Holdens. :-\ The Saffer's would have loved them! :y Still would come to think about it... ::)
Colonial politics ;)
I thought that was an arms and Kit Kat embargo.... :-\ ::)
I was actually thinking of the German influence :-\
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I wonder why GM beefed up European models for SA when they could have just shipped in Holdens. :-\ The Saffer's would have loved them! :y Still would come to think about it... ::)
Colonial politics ;)
I thought that was an arms and Kit Kat embargo.... :-\ ::)
I was actually thinking of the German influence :-\
German influence in Sef Efrica? You've lost me there Al... :-\
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I wonder why GM beefed up European models for SA when they could have just shipped in Holdens. :-\ The Saffer's would have loved them! :y Still would come to think about it... ::)
Colonial politics ;)
I thought that was an arms and Kit Kat embargo.... :-\ ::)
I was actually thinking of the German influence :-\
German influence in Sef Efrica? You've lost me there Al... :-\
No, Tig.....German influence here....to stop them coming here.....
That's what he means, but I don't believe those nice Germans would interfere in such a way.
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I wonder why GM beefed up European models for SA when they could have just shipped in Holdens. :-\ The Saffer's would have loved them! :y Still would come to think about it... ::)
Colonial politics ;)
I thought that was an arms and Kit Kat embargo.... :-\ ::)
I was actually thinking of the German influence :-\
German influence in Sef Efrica? You've lost me there Al... :-\
Namibia...
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I wonder why GM beefed up European models for SA when they could have just shipped in Holdens. :-\ The Saffer's would have loved them! :y Still would come to think about it... ::)
Colonial politics ;)
I thought that was an arms and Kit Kat embargo.... :-\ ::)
I was actually thinking of the German influence :-\
German influence in Sef Efrica? You've lost me there Al... :-\
Namibia...
Not much German influence there after 1915 when South Africa invaded what was then the German colony of South West Africa, although you still hear German spoken in places like Swakopmund and Luderitz. ;)
I doubt the good burghers of Swakopmund and Luderitz have much influence in Russelshiem though. ;D
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Perhaps not, but Africa has always been European rather than Australian or North American in the grand scheme of commerce ;)
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Very true, but that brings us full circle to my original wonderings as to why GM beefed up European models for South Africa rather than sell Holdens there as I'd say they are similar markets. :-\
A quick wiki shows that GM were force to pull out of South Africa in 1986 by US anti apartheid legislation so your partially right when you said colonial politics affected GM operations there. ;)
It still dosn't satisfy my musings though.... :-\