General Car Discussion

Discussion in 'Automotive' started by HadACoolName, Mar 6, 2015.

  1. General S'mores

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    Canada gets pretty much plenty of our cars.
     
  2. HadACoolName

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    Canada didn't get any of the exported Holdens.

    The SS, Caprice, G8 and I believe they didn't even get the GTO
     
  3. General S'mores

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    I mean American cars (in general).
     
  4. SixSixSevenSeven

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    which wasnt what was being mentioned?
     
  5. General S'mores

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    I wasn't talking about Holden for Canada.
     
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    Costs of LHD conversion would have been prohibitive.

    Other than a few market-specific models, Holden has been offering rebadged Opels for ages now. Russelsheim was a key engineering center in the GM group. Most of their current lineup is constituted of rebadged GM-Daewoo products.

    Some Holden designs were only exported as low cost badge-engineering operations where it was financially viable:

    - In the US, where big engines have a folowing and almost identical GM vehicles were already available, so conversion/adaptation was hardly an issue.
    - In the UK as Vauxhalls (RHD, almost unchanged).

    They aren't going anywhere though: for how bad it may sound, local production made very little sense with such a rebadge-heavy, limited scope offering.
     
  7. General S'mores

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    I think Suzuki are very mixed when it comes to design. It's kind of the same situation that Honda, Nissan, and Toyota are in, which is the design department.
     
  8. Harkin Gaming

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    I just witnessed the first ever occurence of a Honda minivan beating a turbocharged Corvette-kart.
     
  9. General S'mores

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    Odyssey... interesting.
     
  10. Harkin Gaming

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    It was very interesting to say the least. It was a 1995 too, all beat up.
     
  11. General S'mores

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    It's pretty much a sleeper, from the sounds of it.
     
  12. Harkin Gaming

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    It was very much a sleeper. It went around 150 mph in the 1/2 mile.
     
  13. General S'mores

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    I'd like to know if they identified it's engine.
     
  14. Harkin Gaming

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    It was a turbocharged honda engine with vtec. I'm not sure which engine it was though, but it wasn't a B-Series.
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    The build of it can be seen on Youtube. The van was built by BoostedBoiz and the Vette-kart was from Cleetus Mcfarland.

    EDIT: This all happened at the project car challenge's first round at Wannagofast in Ocala.
     
  15. General S'mores

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    Maybe a Type R vehicle engine?
     
  16. Harkin Gaming

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    (That is a B-Series) I just learned that it is an H-Series engine.
     
  17. General S'mores

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    So, what cars are in that chassis? (It sounds like a chassis.)
     
  18. Harkin Gaming

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    No its an engine. Honda names their engines with a Letter-Series system. I think that there may be some numbers used to signify variants, too.
     
  19. General S'mores

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    Oh. Yeah, there's the Type S (Acura mostly) and the Type R (Honda).
     
  20. skodakenner

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    Just wondering are parts for standard imprezas like the 2.0R expensive or are they normal prices like vw golfs. Also are they a good beginners car?
     
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