I'm not an Aussie myself, so I don't claim to know Holden's position in the
marketplace, but my understanding is that it is the General Motors (US)
outpost there, much as Vauxhall is in the UK.
G. Holder
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 5:25 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Gas guzzlers (Was Further chillies and other stuff
>
> One of the first machines I met when I arrived on my first visit to
> the US was an El Camino. It was owned by a colonel (the Deputy for
> Operations) at MacDill who was not short of a bob or two. I could
> not fathom why he would own a secondhand car that was so useless,
> pretended to be a pickup and could not carry more than his wife and a
> small child.
>
> I guessed, correctly I now realise, that it was a cultural thing
> which transcended praticality or aesthetics ...;-)
>
> But those "Utes" look just as ghastly chaps! Is Holden a US company
> in disguise, making cosmetic changes to its body shapes to suit the
> market, but keeping the same antiquated underpinnings to maintain low
> costs?
>
> Chris
> ~~ >-)-
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
> +44 (0)7092 251126
> www.threeshoes.co.uk
> homepage.mac.com/zuiko
>
>
> On 12 Dec 2005, at 21:45, James N. McBride wrote:
>
>>
>> Yup. They were both useless pieces of crap. /jmac
>
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