The Camaro shares a platform with Holden and little more. That's just a cost saving measure. Access to information among GM engineers is global. Everyone has the same simulations, the same software, and basically the same parts. Opel and Saturn are sharing a platform and other parts as well. The fact that they first appeared on an Opel (or Holden) doesn't mean that they weren't international in origin. Sometimes GM prefers to work the bugs out of a design somewhere far from home. Paul On Feb 10, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Adam Maas wrote:
> Dario Bonazza wrote: >> Adam Maas wrote: >> >>> Car design these days seems to mostly be german, japanese or aussie. >>> Everybody else mostly seems to just restyle the stuff coming out of >>> associated german, japanese or aussie design houses. >> >> Aussie? I'm missing that for sure! What car is coming is any shape >> from >> downunder? > > Pontiac GTO, the new Camaro, at least 1 other. Bunch of stuff > coming to > GM from Holden because the US design teams flubbed their RWD platform. > Holden is the new Opel for GM. > >> >> Mike Wilson wrote: >> >>> The French will be very unhappy to hear you say that. Being >>> current F1 >>> and WRC champions and all... >> >> And the Fiat Group (Fiat+Alfa+Lancia+Maserati+Ferrari) saw >> something around >> +26% growth last year, so maybe the worst is behind them. >> >> Dario > > Maybe I'll even see one on the road. We only get Ferrari's and the > occasional Maserati over here, at least for anything built in the last > 20 years (I do see older Alfa's on occasion. All the Fiat's rusted out > 10 years ago). > > -Adam > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
