Tuesday, November 22, 2011

WHY Opel is not on American market ?

Opel is a good make of German cars .WHY Opel is not on American market ?|||Opel makes some great vehicles. They are also owned by General Motors. General motors uses some Opel platforms in some of their U.S. products. Mostly they use this in their American product "Saturn". The Opel "GT" coupe and "Vectra" sedan are offered in the U.S. as "Saturn" products (Sky and Aura). So they are in the U.S. in a way. Although I can't say if the "GT and "Vectra" were a U.S. "Sky" and "Aura" first or if the reverse is true. Kind of a Chicken and the Egg thing... I doubt G.M. bothers with many of the other Opel products in the U.S. market because the other Opel vehicles look pretty small for U.S. customers. That's probably why you don't see their other products over here.|||None of the Opel vehicles are offered to Americans. They re-design them as either the Pontiac Solstice or Saturn Sky.|||It is so expensive to build cars in Germany that it would not be possible to sell an Opel at a low enough price to compete with the other lower priced cars on the American market. GM sold Opel's here in the past, they gave up due to low profits.


I wouldn't be surprised if GM started selling cars here that have the Opel trademark on them, but are not from Germany.|||Almost every current or upcoming Saturn is based on an Opel - so they kind of are. The Sky, the Aura, the new car that's replacing the Ion (can't remember the name) - all Opel based.





To the other answerer - Daewoos haven't been sold here in years - they went belly up.|||Maybe they figure since there is already such a massive amount of cars available to the American market that they wouldn't really stand a chance against the already well known brands. Take a look at Daewoo, they are available to us, but nobody, well, hardly anybody I should say cuz I've seen one or two. But point being is that just because they're available doesn't mean that they are going to do well. Maybe they figure rather than take the risk just stick with what you've already got.

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