Comments by "serafina costa" (@serafinacosta7118) on "Ed's Auto Reviews" channel.

  1. Pontiac G8:was a Holden Engineered gem. All other Pontiac made models at that time stunk. Shared platforms with Buick , the Buick models were known for reliability. Pontiac equivalents were lemons.
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  2. They had an European presence ….Opel and Vauxhall . Which , by the way, they managed to bleed dry to prop up US GM component exports, just as they done to Holden. All so the executives in Sterling Heights , MI could cash out on their bonuses and vested options on North America operations. GM claims that, for ten years , Opel run losses, hence their hurry to sell it to Citroen/Peugeot PSA . Well once the French bought Opel and Vauxhall , it took them just a year to operate Opel on the black. The bleed stopped. It gets worse , Opel was the source on nameplates engineering for Latin America. Which went to Daewoo , which folded, and now it is done by S.A.I.C. The brass at GM Headquarters is made of greedy self serving incompetents. They will drive the company bankrupt not soon enough.
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  3.  @digitalrailroader GM Korea is no longer. It all comes from China.
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  4.  @Louis-dm2ct  Opel product development never surfaced in the US. It went to Brazil. The Rekkord became the Opala. Kadet became Kadet. So did the Corsa. And there was no Mokka.
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  5.  @mbd501  Daewoo is long gone. Bankrupt. When GM passed the hat for Government handouts they also took money from the Chinese , through S.A.I.C. as a condition to put money on GM , made some specific demands. One being , all GM cars engineered through Daewoo would have to forgo Daewoo R&D and relinquish all engineered vehicles towards S.A.I.C. Outside North America’s engineered vehicles ( Chevrolet , Buick, Cadillac, Hummer ) , everything else goes through China.
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  6. I would suggest you to pick up a dusted copy of “Unsafe at any speed “, by Ralph Nader. Writen late 60’s. The granddaddy of the consumer rights movement -activism. Then study the history of Volvo and Saab cars. Whose companies pioneered many of the safety features that are standardized in today’s passenger car models. Before they became mandated. And then , watch his biography through “Ralph Nader, an Unreasonable man “ , produced by the now maligned Harvey Weinstein. . Ralph Nader and his Nader’s Raiders is the sole responsible, in North America , for processed food labeling , OSHA safety regulations , clean drinking water regulations ( not the technology ). An Harvard graduated lawyer who never practiced corporate law, no less.
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  7. Fiat struggling brand ? Only in North America.
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  8. The name plate Kadet made to Europe and Brazil throughout the 80’s revived by Opel excellent small car engineering.
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  9.  @ricardokowalski1579 wrong. The Kadet was a German engineered sub compact. Opel made it. Then the Brazilian GM subsidiary brought along. The Chevette debuted as Chevette in the US and Brazil.
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  10.  @fredanddebramacdonald2445  Opel not Opal. Get it ??? And the Brazilian equivalent of the Opel engineered Rekkord is Chevrolet Opala. Reaganomics. Americans can’t spell it right anymore.
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  11. There is a reason why Bertone and Pininfarina booked the well paid gigs they got. No AI , just pen, paper , and then clay. Maybe some CAD renderings these days. When you are a genius , all of this tech gibberish becomes superfluous. Italians can’t build a car that will last trouble free. But sure as heck they can design cars we desire.
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  12. You mean there was. It is no more.
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  13. Interesting how you lay out the Chronology on Robert McNamara. He was also the advisor , as a Defense Secretary , during the JFK presidency , and advised Jack Kennedy against escalation in Indochina , then Vietnam. The fact he had prior military training validates even more his accomplishments as a civilian.
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  14.  @AfonsoBucco  affordable might be it. Give it a try.
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  15. The Aero Willys. Jeeez. Thanks for mentioning. An upper middle class showboat for our Brazer standards. Upright , tall, lots of ground clearance , cushy , padded dashboard , shift lever in the steering column. If I recall , a straight flat six cylinder. Fog lights at the grill. And as an extra feature , besides the radio, Venetian blinds on the rear window. I stand to be corrected , but I guess Willys Overland ran an assembly plant in the then remote town of São Bernardo do Campo , off the highway that connected São Paulo to the port city of Santos , then a major overseas shipping hub, dating back to the heydays of coffe export boom. The Willys São Bernardo plant then cranked out the Aero, the CJ Jeep, the Rural , a two door four wheel drive SUV , and a charming and sturdy pickup truck based upon the Jeep platform. Ford Motors then ran a plant in the outskirts of São Paulo by the rail tracks , in a city neighborhood named Ipiranga. With less land footprint. When Ford took over Willys , then it moved entirely from São Paulo to São Bernardo , where it had a lot more space to expand. The Aero Willys could be as much as a boulevard ride , as it was suited to Brazilian precarious roads then, for its sturdiness. It sold quite well. Eventually the Ford brass opted to discontinue it , and replace with the Ford Galaxie and Landau Ltd 500.
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  16. It helps Chile is a Pacific Nation.
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  17. Chevette was a Chevette from day one. It got phased out to give way to the Kadett.
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  18. It takes a Dutchman to see the obvious. After all the Dutch are pragmatic and see the long game. Just a side note to reinforce your point. … Brazil. Great Wall bought a Mercedes Benz plant in Iracemopolis , SP. I do not see their cars around. Chery Motors has been licensing their production to a Brazilian partner (Caoa ) , the same entity that licensed Hiundays in Brazil. Chery has an iddle plant in Jacareí,SP , but since partnering with Brazilians , they consolidated manufacturing and worked their kinks in quality and spares availability. The jury is still out , as they are not meeting sales numbers. Once you burn Brazilians , it takes a great while to patch up . And the icing in the cake … BYD, after a few years making buses in Campinas SP , snagged Ford Motor’s last surviving auto plant in Camaçari , BA for their passenger car production. Ford is gone, relegated to import trucks from Argentina , and shipping the rest of their lineup from Mexico. It is a known fact BYD is poaching existing Ford dealerships. Lifan is gone, JAC you don’t see many around.
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  19. Simca was a Chrysler nameplate. The Renault Dauphini , or Gordini, was a Ford nameplate which led to the Ford Corcel.
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  20. You made a valid point. Chrysler never spent eniugg money on product improvement. All Chrysler branded cars had awful transmissions, weak engines, and cheap finishes . And as a manufacturing assembly concern, it kept changing its suppliers year in and out, a nightmare to service and auto mechanics.
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  21.  @humanbeing1675  Opel , formerly a German subsidiary once acquired and then divested by General Motors Corp. Go check your references before you are out spouting nonsense.
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  22.  @fredanddebramacdonald2445  Buicks are only made outside the US in Canada and China, to the extent of my knowledge. . There was never any automotive company named Opal. Only Opel, an once acquired and then divested subsidiary of General Motors , based in Germany. They might run factories in Europe outside Germany , but it would be the extent of it. Opal with an A at the end , as Opala , was the nameplate for a model made by General Motors do Brasil , assembled in São Caetano -SP , and sold through 1968 up to the early nineties, therefore already discontinued . It was a rebadging with some further enhancements from the Opel Rekkord. General Motors , back then , made a practice to use the Germany subsidiary as a base for Brazilian models , which then received slight cosmetic modifications. It was offered as a Sedan, Coupe , and a sports wagon ( three door badged as Caravan instead of Opala ). All models were equipped with various trim levels , depending upon the production year. From the sporty two door coupe or sports wagon , named SS, up to the stodgy four door Sedan, later labeled as Diplomata . Engines varied from an entry level four cylinder 2.5 liters up first a 3.8 inline six and then a 4.1 inline six. The nameplate , specially the sedan and sports wagon ,are iconic classic cars amogst Brazilian enthusiasts and collectors. A lot of tuners buy them and upgrade them for drag racing and they are often spotted on tuner car meets. Being an Opala enthusiast is being part of a clique called “Opaleiros “, and the model became an equivalent to the Brazilian version of muscle cars.
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  23.  @fredanddebramacdonald2445  what you might be alluding to is that Opel might’ve offered some of its European made models through select Buick dealerships.
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  24.  @AfonsoBucco  not “ a good entrance car “. Rather “ a good entry level model “.
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  25.  @mbd501  Ok, that is new to me l Yet Buick models are excludively sold in China , US, and Canada , that I know off. Carmakers rather spend money on keeping a plant open when they can sell some of its output on its home market, and then compound it with exports.
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  26. The badge and engineering was straight out imported from Germany’s Opel. There was no Brazilian Engineering to scale up then. Germany and the US held the keys. And then Korea’s Daewoo. And now , China’s SAIC.
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  27. All I see are way too many ways for costly malfunctions. You are beholden to the dealership’s service department , you guilible comfort creature. You own it , your arse is ours.
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