There are the “Imports”, everyone but the 3 domestics.

Then there are imported vehicles, which are built outside of the US.

Per your comment “they are claiming that imports don’t get better gas mileage when some of the stuff they are comparing are imports now.”

As I said the Aveo is about the only vehicle that meets one of the two definitions above that is being advertised. The Malibu you refer to fits neither definition.

And yes the Malibu is based on the Epsilon I architecture engineered at Opel but all the work above the floorpan and the FOD were done here in the US. Malibu just used the basic floorpan/chassis.

Or are you too stupid to see that the Opel pictured is the same as the Mailbu sans their logo?

Stay classy, GM. Glad to see your lack of professionalism and meaningless words transcends those buying your crap products to those trying to buy divisions of your mismanaged company.

May you and your partner in bankruptcy, the UAW, reap exactly what you’ve sown.

Too bad the taxpayers will be left holding the flaming bag of brown material when you’re done crapping all over us. FOAD.

Don’t be surprised if Magna goes after GM for the costs associated with the purchase agreement. I think we were all given the impression that this was a done deal. If it was as close as we were led to believe, this must’ve cost them a bundle. They even had the unions on board! Germany is demanding their 1.5B Euros back because of this. That’s like getting blood from a stone.

Apparently 25,000 Opel factory workers are striking at 4 manufacturing plants. I don’t think GM is very popular over there right now.

Again, GM never wanted to sell off part of Opel. At the time they had no choice because Opel was bleeding money and GM could not support them with cash. The Unions thought a Non GM owner would come in on a white horse but they found out that the “white horses” wore black hats and were going to cut even more than GM would have.

Now that Opel is doing better they can keep them.

iluvamcars, Ford and Mazda share stuff. Only GM pretends that its cars are not “foreign” or that they are American when they clearly or not. First was the whole “Rethink American” slogan, which was obviously crap when the Opel clones came out, and now the current commercials where they are claiming that imports don’t get better gas mileage when some of the stuff they are comparing are imports now.

At least it has a character line from the back to the back door. The headlights are more sleek than the Avalon’s too. Plus, the Avalon was redesigned a model year before the Impala.

-iluvamcars

By the way, GM didn’t screw anybody!!! Opel is THEIR company! They’re entitled to decide whether or not they sell it, even at the 11th hour. Sheesh.

Opel was never going away from GM. It was to be still partly owned by GM and GM would have continued to get engineering from them and profit from Opel sales. Fear was that the designs would have been shared with Russia and future competitors to Opel/Chevy in Europe. GM never wanted to sell off a portion but was forced to by europe governments.

HOWEVER in the end the Europeans figured out the Magna deal would have cut as many plants/people as GM would have if not more. They will go along with this and probably have already blessed it.

Opel was a big part of their R&D and it would have been quite foolish to let that get away.

As long as sales and the economy improve and GM actually has the money to keep them in-house, keeping Opel will probably turn out to be one of the best moves that GM could have done in securing their future. I could see next-gen small and mid-sized sedans coming from them, and that is one of GM’s historic weaknesses.

GM is definitely going to get flack for this move, but in the long-term is could help secure their future.

mitzo, GM develops and designs a large majority of its North American lineups here in the U.S. idiot.

Also, the LaCrosse was a global effort, With America, Europe, and China taking parts in developement and design.

-iluvamcars

anywho, i think autocritical is right, that Volt engineer leaving for Opel was clearly because of this, maybe he will be working with opel on the Ampera and possibly head up further R&D for electric vehicles for GM

How did the US **** Europe? If it weren’t for the US, Europe would be high stepping today.