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From: Hugo Nebula on 6 Aug 2010 17:01 [Default] On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:19:56 +0000 (UTC), a certain chimpanzee, boltar2003(a)boltar.world, randomly hit the keyboard and wrote: >I've often wondered why GM bothers to keep the Vauxhall badge. It has zero >cache and must cost them more money than if they just badged everything here >as Opel. I presume because it makes the grey imports easier to spot. -- Hugo Nebula "If no-one on the internet wants a piece of this, just how far from the pack have I strayed"?
From: boltar2003 on 8 Aug 2010 05:12 On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:01:35 +0100 Hugo Nebula <abuse(a)localhost> wrote: >[Default] On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:19:56 +0000 (UTC), a certain >chimpanzee, boltar2003(a)boltar.world, randomly hit the keyboard and >wrote: > >>I've often wondered why GM bothers to keep the Vauxhall badge. It has zero >>cache and must cost them more money than if they just badged everything here >>as Opel. > >I presume because it makes the grey imports easier to spot. Is there a big market in grey imports from Ireland? Because they're the only other RHD drive country in europe apart from malta and cyprus and I can't see there being much profit in shipping cars from there. B2003
From: GT on 9 Aug 2010 05:43 <boltar2003(a)boltar.world> wrote in message news:i3lsd2$mml$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:01:35 +0100 > Hugo Nebula <abuse(a)localhost> wrote: >>[Default] On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:19:56 +0000 (UTC), a certain >>chimpanzee, boltar2003(a)boltar.world, randomly hit the keyboard and >>wrote: >> >>>I've often wondered why GM bothers to keep the Vauxhall badge. It has >>>zero >>>cache and must cost them more money than if they just badged everything >>>here >>>as Opel. >> >>I presume because it makes the grey imports easier to spot. > > Is there a big market in grey imports from Ireland? Because they're the > only > other RHD drive country in europe apart from malta and cyprus and I can't > see there being much profit in shipping cars from there. Why focus on imports from Ireland? Most imports come from Japan - higher spec and RHD.
From: Adrian on 9 Aug 2010 05:47 boltar2003(a)boltar.world gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >>>I've often wondered why GM bothers to keep the Vauxhall badge. It has >>>zero cache and must cost them more money than if they just badged >>>everything here as Opel. >>I presume because it makes the grey imports easier to spot. > Is there a big market in grey imports from Ireland? Because they're the > only other RHD drive country in europe apart from malta and cyprus and I > can't see there being much profit in shipping cars from there. For used cars, the traffic's the other way. There's a lot of cars get personal-exported from the UK to the republic. For new cars, it doesn't matter whether the source country is RHD or LHD - you can walk into a dealer anywhere in the EU and order a RHD car. The "Vauxhall" issue is as straightforward as many buyers still associating "Vauxhall" as a "British car", and "Opel" as "Johnny Foreigner". Ford, for some reason, get thought of as "British", too.
From: GT on 9 Aug 2010 05:59
"Adrian" <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:8ca15qF11dU7(a)mid.individual.net... > boltar2003(a)boltar.world gurgled happily, sounding much like they were > saying: > >>>>I've often wondered why GM bothers to keep the Vauxhall badge. It has >>>>zero cache and must cost them more money than if they just badged >>>>everything here as Opel. > >>>I presume because it makes the grey imports easier to spot. > >> Is there a big market in grey imports from Ireland? Because they're the >> only other RHD drive country in europe apart from malta and cyprus and I >> can't see there being much profit in shipping cars from there. > > For used cars, the traffic's the other way. There's a lot of cars get > personal-exported from the UK to the republic. > > For new cars, it doesn't matter whether the source country is RHD or LHD > - you can walk into a dealer anywhere in the EU and order a RHD car. That's not strictly true - you can try, but most of them make a limited number (quite a low number I believe) of RHD cars available. > The "Vauxhall" issue is as straightforward as many buyers still > associating "Vauxhall" as a "British car", and "Opel" as "Johnny > Foreigner". Ford, for some reason, get thought of as "British", too. |