Yeah, but I get the feeling that the average Aussie is more into cars than the average 'Merican. And I think that translates into the local management as well. At Ford the Aussies have more consistently produced enthusiast's cars than Ford US. For a long time Ford Australia got cast off tooling from Ford US and turned average cars into better/superior cars ie Falcon...
Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Aussie car? > The Camaro shares a platform with Holden and little more. That's just > a cost saving measure. Access to information among GM engineers is > global. Everyone has the same simulations, the same software, and > basically the same parts. Opel and Saturn are sharing a platform and > other parts as well. The fact that they first appeared on an Opel (or > Holden) doesn't mean that they weren't international in origin. > Sometimes GM prefers to work the bugs out of a design somewhere far > from home. > Paul > On Feb 10, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Adam Maas wrote: > >> Dario Bonazza wrote: >>> Adam Maas wrote: >>> >>>> Car design these days seems to mostly be german, japanese or aussie. >>>> Everybody else mostly seems to just restyle the stuff coming out of >>>> associated german, japanese or aussie design houses. >>> >>> Aussie? I'm missing that for sure! What car is coming is any shape >>> from >>> downunder? >> >> Pontiac GTO, the new Camaro, at least 1 other. Bunch of stuff >> coming to >> GM from Holden because the US design teams flubbed their RWD platform. >> Holden is the new Opel for GM. >> >>> >>> Mike Wilson wrote: >>> >>>> The French will be very unhappy to hear you say that. Being >>>> current F1 >>>> and WRC champions and all... >>> >>> And the Fiat Group (Fiat+Alfa+Lancia+Maserati+Ferrari) saw >>> something around >>> +26% growth last year, so maybe the worst is behind them. >>> >>> Dario >> >> Maybe I'll even see one on the road. We only get Ferrari's and the >> occasional Maserati over here, at least for anything built in the last >> 20 years (I do see older Alfa's on occasion. All the Fiat's rusted out >> 10 years ago). >> >> -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
