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Opel-"It's a German" adverts

  • 02-06-2014 3:32pm
    #1
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,639 ✭✭✭✭


    Had to laugh at these. Seen another there today for the Astra, Claudia Schiffer declaring it's a "German" (so therefore never breaks down LOL).
    Let's see how true this all is...
    Opel/GM build most of their Astras in England/Poland.
    The Mokka is Korean. The Corsa built in Spain as is the Meriva.

    It's just the Insignia, Zafira and Adam that are now actually built in the Fatherland anymore. I really think this marketing as "German" is leading them down a blind alley. VW got there first, decades ago. Now Opel are deciding to exploit this perception.


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


    They're at it years since this wir lieben autos or whatever it is lark started.


  • #3
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Very annoying ad.

    This whole "wir German all of a sudden" thing is a bit sad.


  • #4
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Calling an Opel German is like calling a Skoda Czech! :pac:


  • #5
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    I can just picture a brit celeb, in an ad for Vauxhall. "Vauxhall, the pinnacle of British engineering!"
    LOL!


  • #6
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Calling an Opel German is like calling a Skoda Czech! :pac:

    Or Austro-Hungarian

    pablo128 wrote: »
    I can just picture a brit celeb, in an ad for Vauxhall. "Vauxhall, the pinnacle of British engineering!"
    LOL!

    This is pretty much what's happening.


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  • #7
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    I can't stand those ads and not withstanding the fact that many of their cars are made elsewhere, opel in my view are certainly only average in the build and mechanical departments. They are defiantly not the pinnical of German engineering IMO, far from it.


  • #8
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    JohnBoy26 wrote: »
    I can't stand those ads and not withstanding the fact that many of their cars are made elsewhere, opel in my view are certainly only average in the build and mechanical departments. They are defiantly not the pinnical of German engineering IMO, far from it.
    Absolutely. I put them in the same category as Fords and VAGs. Ok as runabouts or family cars, some are even half decent to drive. But thats where it ends.


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