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Vauxhall v Opel

  • 24-02-2013 1:02pm
    #1
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,694 ✭✭✭✭


    May be a stupid question, but is there any difference at all?

    I always assumed they were built in the same factories, using the same parts and simply got either the VAUXHALL or OPEL badging added depending on which market they were selling into.

    Is this right? Or is there any difference?


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  • #2
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Nah, they're the same. Differences in spec exist but they're the same thing.


  • #3
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,694 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Cheers, assume that Irish insurance companies would treat them the same too then.


  • #4
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    You'd never know.


  • #5
    glic83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭glic83


    Ive a vauhall vectra 08, no difference insurance wise,spec wise 17" alloy's on the vauxhall, 16" were standard for the opel and a few other bits on the spec are better on the vauhall


  • #6
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,632 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Nah, they're the same. Differences in spec exist but they're the same thing.

    There's no Opel VXR8 though;might not be a Vauxhall one now that they've changed the model in Australia.


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  • #7
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    I'll fish out a picture I look in Edinburgh later on. It was an insignia that had a minor battle scar and the badge on the front grill was missing. The design of the clip the badge had to go into was in the shape of the Opel emblem.


  • #8
    Stallingrad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,226 ✭✭✭Stallingrad


    Bar the badges/grill/minor spec there is no difference.

    There may be a difference in what you are offered when you try to sell or trade a Vauxhall in.


  • #9
    glic83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭glic83


    Also there is places on my car where it has an opel sticker, so same thing


  • #10
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,858 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    Values will be different though. A Vauxhall in Ireland will always be less valuable than an otherwise identical Opel.


  • #11
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    Values will be different though. A Vauxhall in Ireland will always be less valuable than an otherwise identical Opel.

    But that's the thing isn't it, due to the different spec levels you won't always find identical models between an Irish Opel and a UK Vauxhall. Although to be fair recent Irish models are quite well spec'd in comparison.


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  • #12
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    New Opel I'm buying is higher specced than the UK equivalent.


  • #13
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    MuppetCheck wrote: »
    New Opel I'm buying is higher specced than the UK equivalent.

    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Although to be fair recent Irish models are quite well spec'd in comparison.
    :P


  • #14
    shooter88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭shooter88


    ThisRegard wrote: »


    :P
    I found that funny too...hard to imagine IRL would be higher spec than UK,don't think iv come across it especially with vx,I found fords the same


  • #15
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    shooter88 wrote: »
    I found that funny too...hard to imagine IRL would be higher spec than UK,don't think iv come across it especially with vx,I found fords the same

    Some VAG cars are higher spec too and many the same. I think the real difference in specs between the two countries are people are more likely to splurge on options in the UK unlike here.


  • #16
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    MuppetCheck wrote: »
    Some VAG cars are higher spec too and many the same. I think the real difference in specs between the two countries are people are more likely to splurge on options in the UK unlike here.

    Weren't Octavia vrs higher specced in Ireland than uk too?


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