Why is Vauxhall not sold in Ireland, but Opel is?

Does it have to do with separatists?|||amy is exactly right,


but to update, fiat are now part owners of vauxhall and have a collaboration with opel to reduce manufacturing costs for both companies.


compare the corsa and punto for example.


it means in the near future, you could be driving a vauxhall punto while the opel corsa is a (slightly) different car.


scary thought or what|||They are both the same company. It's actually Opel everywhere apart from the UK. GM in America purchased the company to compete with Ford. Opel was the German subsidiary of Vauxhall and to save costs they just copied or imported the Vauxhall cars. It's thought that Vauxhall is too big a name in the UK for GM to drop it like it did everywhere else.