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Vauxhall Shows Half Of Its New Droptop
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Derek Kreindler
(IC: employee)
Published: September 7th, 2012
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Opel may be in the crapper, but GM’s British arm, Vauxhall (which is intertwined with Opel) is happy to tout their new convertible, dubbed the Cascada.
The Cascada will debut at the Paris Motor Show in a couple weeks, and while the pictures don’t give much indication of the car’s size, the Cascada will apparently be sized in line with the Audi A5. Nothing has been announced regarding U.S. sales, but if this isn’t a great candidate for a Buick halo vehicle, then TTAC won’t post Japanese rope bondage pictures anymore. Besides, it’s been a long time coming for the next iteration of the Reatta.
Derek Kreindler
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Published September 7th, 2012 12:07 PM
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Call it a Reatta and give it a rag top, not one of those crazy 500-piece auto-open-close tops that will break every 15 miles. GM currently only has the Camaro pig and the Corvette as convertible options. Since they'd never make the Code 130R as a small turbo-4 sport coupe, this is as close as it's going to get.
Looks like a newer Sebring conv from those pics.
The text is somewhat misleading in what concerns Opel / Vauxhall. Vauxhall is simply the badge that Opel vehicles wear in the UK. There will no be any Vauxhall at the Paris show, but rather the premiere of the Opel Cascada...
I guess Brits for marketing and sentimental reasons would like to think Vauxhall still exists. But does Vauxhall have any of the things a car manufacturer needs, such as a design centre, factories, engineers, assembly workers and its own car models? Or is it merely the UK distribution channel for Opel and GM?