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Title: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: GIANT DRAGON on 14 May 2017, 13:41:57
Hi i'm looking to modify my 2003 Omega mk2, was thinking of a manufacture stripe? but i need to know for definite. That in 2003, who owned it please? i know Opel was Germany, am i right thinking it's North America? Thanx in advance  :y
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 14 May 2017, 13:45:56
Vauxhall / Opel is and was owned by General Motors. Soon to be sold to Peugeot.
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Nick W on 14 May 2017, 13:48:26
Vauxhall/Opel is and was owned by General Motors. Soon to be sold to finished off by Peugeot.


Fixed that for you!
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: GIANT DRAGON on 14 May 2017, 13:49:53
Thought so, thank you.
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 14 May 2017, 13:50:55
Vauxhall/Opel is and was owned by General Motors. Soon to be sold to finished off by Peugeot.


Fixed that for you!

Thanks, I should have known better.  :y
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: GIANT DRAGON on 14 May 2017, 13:53:32
Nooooooo, the French can't do this :( it'll become the Peugeot 999.....HELP!
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Nick W on 14 May 2017, 14:17:33
Nooooooo, the French can't do this :( it'll become the Peugeot 999.....HELP!


Of course they can, they've previous form for it. They finished off the job of killing the Rootes group that Chrysler started.
So that's two countries who can't be trusted: France and America. Who knew? :o
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Viral_Jim on 14 May 2017, 14:35:29
You say that, but look at the list of British motoring icons that we killed off and buried of our own accord in the 70's and 80's.  ::)
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Varche on 14 May 2017, 16:54:21
You say that, but look at the list of British motoring icons that we killed off and buried of our own accord in the 70's and 80's.  ::)

That was fake news ! We just didn't know it then. It was the reds (Russians )  ;D
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Nick W on 14 May 2017, 16:59:47
You say that, but look at the list of British motoring icons that we killed off and buried of our own accord in the 70's and 80's.  ::)


Yes, like the barely lamented Wolsely, Riley, Vanden Plas, Leyland etc that were already dead when BMC was formed twenty years earlier.
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 14 May 2017, 19:45:07
Bmw were hardly going to call the ironically named Mini the more appropriate Maxi :D
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Kevin Wood on 14 May 2017, 19:53:18
(http://sniffpetrol.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SPAD_MiniClubman2015.jpg)
(http://sniffpetrol.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SPAD_MiniCountrymanAprilFool.jpg)
(http://sniffpetrol.com/wp-content/uploads/SPAD_BMW5GT.jpg)

 ;D
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Nick W on 14 May 2017, 20:04:45
Bmw were hardly going to call the ironically named Mini the more appropriate Maxi :D


They grow more like an Allegro with each model change. And they were very similar to start with.
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Pmacca2000 on 15 May 2017, 08:56:37
1994-2000, yousefull as in we bought rover to nick Range Rover chassis tech to develop a rival that only comes with road tyres?
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: grifter on 17 May 2017, 12:21:22
Vauxhall / Opel is and was owned by General Motors. Soon to be sold to Peugeot.

Ugg, to think of it as a peugeot omega just doesn't bear thinking about!!
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 17 May 2017, 20:04:20
Vauxhall / Opel is and was owned by General Motors. Soon to be sold to Peugeot.

Ugg, to think of it as a peugeot omega just doesn't bear thinking about!!
Can't possibly be any worse than the 607 :D
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Nick W on 17 May 2017, 22:09:26
Vauxhall / Opel is and was owned by General Motors. Soon to be sold to Peugeot.

Ugg, to think of it as a peugeot omega just doesn't bear thinking about!!
Can't possibly be any worse than the 607 :D


There's a man who needs to try an 807. Or it's Citroen sister; they're both terrible. And that's before the front balljoints break.
Title: Re: Who owns the Omega mk2
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 17 May 2017, 22:11:04
Vauxhall / Opel is and was owned by General Motors. Soon to be sold to Peugeot.

Ugg, to think of it as a peugeot omega just doesn't bear thinking about!!
Can't possibly be any worse than the 607 :D


There's a man who needs to try an 807. Or it's Citroen sister; they're both terrible. And that's before the front balljoints break.
Thanks, but I think I will pass on that level of automotive misery  ;D