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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
The first one. The older one is cool but that's more of a "Jeff" I think.
That first one has a Chevy badge on the front of it! Oh, General Motors screwed up in the States on so many levels.  |
Yes, for some reason some HSV (Holden Special Vehicles) owners occasionally replace the standard Holden badge with the Chevy one. I mean, I know the connection, but I never really understood how this
enhanced the car. Not that I'm criticising Chevy, but I don't understand how it's any better than a Holden badge. And it goes against every "Holden family"'s basic ethic - the long term polarised slur against the Ford Falcon (and a "Ford family") was its American-ness (just your usual, insular nationalism, never obscured by little things like facts
).
Mind you, when the SsangYong Musso came out in Australia, some of the owners who bought it with the Merc' diesel in it replaced their front and rear badges with Merc badges. I can understand that Merc' might be considered a better vehicle manufacturer than SsangYong, but I'm pretty sure that anyone who knew it had a Merc' engine in thought this owner-rebadging pretty tragic, and anyone who didn't know wondered who the owner thought they were fooling. I think that car was definitely a "Clarence".
Cheers,
Marc