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.
So 3 models? Possibly 4-5 and parts? Can that place Australia among the top 3 car-manufacturing countries? I don't want to offend Australian friends here, but when I think of cars I think Germany, Japan, USA, France, Italy, Korea... sometimes even UK, Sweden and India. Australia didn't come to mind (it will happen next). Sure that must be since I've never seen an Aussie car live, while I know that some old Italian rust has shown up on the other side of the globe. >> 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). Fiat has promised to land on US market again in the near future, shipping some Alfa Romeos just to start. The Alfa 159 and the Brera could probably be the first models you'll see over there. Please choose Alfa 159 and/or Brera in the search field of the following website. http://www.alfaromeo.com Ciao, Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
