Date:         Sun, 22 Jan 1995 11:07:22 -0600 (CST)
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From:         dakhlia@wuecona.wustl.edu (Sami Dakhlia)
Subject:      Re: Opel

The Great Galvo said:
>Just how do you define 'fiasco'. In Ireland, Opel regularly 
>swap number one seller status with Ford (bleah!) and Toyota 
>(urrgh!). In England, they are a solid number two to Ford and 
>making good money in the process. They were operating at a loss 

Weren't Opel labelled Vauxhall in Ireland and GB? Or did they close the
factory?

Sami 
(previous car was a 1970 Opel Rekord, now comatose in my folks'
driveway in France <sigh> :( )

-- 
Sami Dakhlia
Dept. of Economics
Washington-University-in-St.Louis	In theory, communism works. In THEORY.
dakhlia@wuecona.wustl.edu				-Homer Simpson

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