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Just remember that Opel is also Detroit!
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I should have said management
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i may be biased about opels but they rellay had some more than decent cars in their linup the last 10-20 years, so even if the engineers eleswhere at gm where incompetent, they could have just picked a real car with a low Cd off the shelve and started from there. i think gm underestimates the intelligence of the american custommers... or at least made some very wrong assumption about them... in a country where trucks are seen as cars and where muscle cars where born it's normal the averagge person might find a more boxy and powerull looking car more appealing, but that's just looks and they can be deceptive.... it's perfectly possible to build a car that has good aero and than make it look boxy to the eyes and not the air. supposed custommer expectations are no excuse to build bad cars.
stylists are needed but they should become last, not first in the design prosess