I Cant believe it

[Killer2005]

Someone's actually bought my Daewoo Nexia Sold for £150 on friday afternoon

[RichBurley]

You did well my son!

[jagdpanther]

Killer2005 said:

Someone's actually bought my Daewoo Nexia Sold for £150 on friday afternoon

Damn thats cheap


I might have bought it off you if I would've known

[ChristianZS]

Whats next for you then?

[jagdpanther]

Skyline??

[tomTVR]

Well thats £150 nearer a Skyline

[sparkyhx]

I know someone who dropped a Calibra Turbo engine into a Nexia I think its fairly easy - made it a real sleeper - you could imagine peoples faces as they get wasted by one of these things.

Edited by sparkyhx on Monday 30th July 18:15

[snotrag]

sparkyhx said:

I know someone who dropped a Calibra Turbo engine into a Nexia I think its fairly easy - made it a real sleeper - you could imagine peoples faces as they get wasted by one of these things.

Edited by sparkyhx on Monday 30th July 18:15

Its just a mk2 Astra aint it? So surely all the go-faster bits that fit Astra's would fit...

[Balmoral Green]

snotrag said:

Its just a mk2 Astra aint it?

Holden Kadett actually. Very little in common with the Astra.

[Killer2005]

tomTVR said:

Well thats £150 nearer a Skyline

I'm certainly trying but dont think I'll be able to afford that for a while longer

Might have to be an FTO/MR2/Merc 190/Alfa GTV/Peugot 306/Ford Focus/anything else I fancy instead

[snotrag]

Balmoral Green said:

snotrag said:

Its just a mk2 Astra aint it?

Holden Kadett actually. Very little in common with the Astra.

I thought it was this one?




What were the bigger ones based on, the pointy ones? Looked a bit like an XM? I never worked it out.

[mybrainhurts]

Killer2005 said:

Someone's actually bought my Daewoo Nexia

Pardon me for asking, but what were you doing in possession of a Daewooooo Nexia...?

[Balmoral Green]

snotrag said:

What were the bigger ones based on, the pointy ones? Looked a bit like an XM? I never worked it out.

The Espero was based on the GM World car 2000 platform, that's the 1982 Opel Ascona/Vauxhall Cavalier, but with an extra 9 inches in the wheelbase. The body style was designed in 1990 by Guigario, around the same time as they also did the Xantia, IIRC it was a Citroen reject style, hence the similarity with Citroen.

The 1st Daewoos were made in 1966, they were Opel Kadetts (HA Vivas) in knock down kit form. GM had a controlling stake in Daewoo up until 1992, which is why the stuff that came to the UK in 1995 was based on GM stuff, but Southern hemisphere Holden product, not European product. When all the 'new' Daewoos came out in 1997 (Lanos, Nubira, Leganza) the styling was all new, although mechanically they were still GM derived. Daewoo also made cars based on Suzukis, Hondas and Mercedes, as well as many more. They also built cars for other manufactureres too. Daewoo went tits up in 97/98, along with the whole South Korean economy. GM finally bailed them out again in 2002, deciding to rename them as Chevrolet in some markets, which is now GM's budget car brand globally.

My favourite Daewoo is the Chairman 500, which is actually the previous model Mercedes 500 S class. It is not a copy, it is a Mercedes, built under licence by Ssangyong, when Daewoo was in control. Ssangyong is independant of Daewoo again now though.

Edited by Balmoral Green on Monday 30th July 20:00

[Killer2005]

mybrainhurts said:

Killer2005 said:

Someone's actually bought my Daewoo Nexia

Pardon me for asking, but what were you doing in possession of a Daewooooo Nexia...?

It was cheap. And fun to drive at 1 lepton. It flew once too

[Balmoral Green]

mybrainhurts said:

what were you doing in possession of a Daewooooo Nexia...?

I've got one too

A GLi 5 door auto/AC.

[snotrag]

Thanks BG, interesting stuff. Logged in the Library under 'D' for Daewoo!

I actually thought that Daewoo in terms of cars had only existed since the Nexia/Nubira etc, when they sprouted in the UK.

[Balmoral Green]

Have a look at the current Daewoo Statesman, which is a 5.7 litre V8 Holden Monaro 4 door. And the G2X sportscar which is the Saturn Sky/Pontiac Solstice.

http://www.gmdaewoo.co.kr/kor/index.jsp

Edited by Balmoral Green on Monday 30th July 20:21

[snotrag]

Brilliant!

[jagdpanther]

snotrag said:

Brilliant!

Tell me that has a big V8 under the "hood"




sorry for the 'Mericanism