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Originally Posted by lra
But Opel is now owned by Peugeot, not GM, and they are paying GM for the rights to build them. That will not last beyond the current models.
Future Opels will be Peugeots/Citroens in drag, and neither of these companies have been successful in Australia in the past due to weird designs and build quality.
So their brands are on the nose here, but probably less so than the Holden lion at present.
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PSA is now moving quickly to leave GM legacy platforms behind because of difficulty
meeting near future fuel economy targets in Europe.
Given how Holden's sales have collapsed in the last six months, I don't think GM will try too hard
to sell it, they have a hell of a road to go selling all the vehicles they have on the grass as well as
incoming shipments - a giant fire sale coming is coming in the next few months with very serious
consequences after that as I think a lot of dealer franchises basically become worthless thanks to
GM's utter mismanagement of Holden and zero transitioning of all of its high value costumers.