Actually, it’s a not-uncommon thing for people to buy a Buick Regal TourX (which in itself is an Insignia) and lower it and give it body color cladding and all the Opel badging. I was conscious they existed, just never figured I’d see one in the flesh.
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Because Opel is cooler as a foreign brand than Buick is to the kinds of people interested in a European made wagon.
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A 99 I spotted today. Not mint but looks pretty solid still. One of the most common cars on the road when I was a kid, and now you see a handful of them per year at most…
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> Opel
> cooler brand
Mind bending to me, I perceive it in the most mundane and boring tier of brands. Well, foreign, yeah, I can understand that, but still, Opel…
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Of course it’s hard to fathom, but surely it’d also be hard to fathom for Americans that conversely I have seen people put Buick Regal grilles on their Opel Insignias.