Anyone heard any scoop on the new "Youth Market" cadillac being introduced
this month?  It is a renamed european GM car (Opel?).  

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Mcpoz, check out the current issues of _Automobile_, _Motor Trend_, and other
such car magazines.  Some of them may even have a photo of the Cadillac Catera
(that's what it's called, but how they came up with that name I'll never
know!).  BTW, already they are making comparisons to Cadillac's ill-fated
Cimarron (Chevrolet Cavalier clone).  And yes, it is a badge-engineered German
Opel.

My family has gone through 3 German Opels.  The Opel Manta was my favorite.

I always thought of Opel as low end consumer cars.  I did like, however, the
old Opel GT.  I keep my eyes open for one and someday may buy one. (Probably
not).

I think Opal offers a pretty wide range of cars in Europe, from low end to
high end.  Last time I was in Western Europe for very long they were the only
GM cars around.

When I lived in England ten years ago my parents bought a used Opal Kadett,
which borke down a lot.  I'd hope they've gotten better since then.

I had a '68 Opel Kadett wagon.  It was 13 years old when I sold it.  Someone
gave me $400 for it even though they it was pretty well rusted out!  Didn't
even give me a chance to put an ad in the paper.  It was one of the worst cars
I owned.  It couldn't deal with the liberal amount of salt we spread on our
roads here and I was constantly patching holes in it.  Tha Manta was a much
better car and it handled very well.  It was well suited for zipping up and
down parking garages with the greatest of ease ;)  The last German Opel I saw
was at Ford when I went there for an interview.  They had it set up on a dyno
and were running all kinds of tests on it.  It looked like a very nice car!
An Opel Kapatin or somesuch...

did you get the job?

Nope.  Didn't want it.

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