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Merkur is a ridiculous name for a car. Call it what it is, call it Ford Sierra. Same goes for Holdens. Am I forgetting any other cars whose names America bastardized? If I ever get a Merkur first mod will be to replace all the badges.
jvirgs drives a Subaru
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12/11/2014 at 21:24 |
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AWWW YISSSS
Round headlight enthusiast
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12/11/2014 at 21:26 |
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DoYouEvenShift
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12/11/2014 at 21:31 |
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Sierra
PanchoVilleneuve ST
> Round headlight enthusiast
12/11/2014 at 21:33 |
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America went and did this for Sweden so they didn't have to.
Also, I'm pretty sure 99% of these were sold back when GM was offering employee pricing for everybody and car nerds discovered they could get a WRX for pennies.
BrownMiataDieselWagon
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12/11/2014 at 21:33 |
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> PanchoVilleneuve ST
12/11/2014 at 21:36 |
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That one will be hard to convert back to Subaru. Requires body panel replacement.
Spaceball-Two
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12/11/2014 at 21:44 |
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> Spaceball-Two
12/11/2014 at 21:48 |
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Nice Omega you got there.
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Spaceball-Two
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12/11/2014 at 21:49 |
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My mother had one very briefly as a company car. It was a factory of sadness.
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Round headlight enthusiast
> PanchoVilleneuve ST
12/11/2014 at 21:50 |
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Damn I love those. Guy at work has one but have yet to meet whoever it is. (it's a big store and he's not in my department)
Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast
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12/11/2014 at 21:57 |
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Funny thing is in Australia there exists the option from Holden to have Chevy badges fitted in place of the Holden ones on the commodore! And some people pay the $1,500 to do so!! WTF?
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> Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast
12/11/2014 at 22:02 |
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Why would anyone want to pay $1500 to downgrade their car?
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Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast
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12/11/2014 at 22:11 |
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I have no idea, the reason is that "It's got a Chevy engine so it's a Chevy" or something like that.
Birddog
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12/11/2014 at 22:13 |
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The Merkur Scorpio and XR were A Bob Lutz production. They shouldn't have existed in the U.S.
Ford would have been locked out of Sierra anyway here. GMC kinda held on to that one tightly over the years.
Nobi
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12/11/2014 at 22:38 |
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My car is a GTO if you like it or not!
not for canada - australian in disguise
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12/11/2014 at 23:20 |
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NJAnon
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12/12/2014 at 19:07 |
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"if I ever get a Merkur"
Calm down BigNslow, let's not do any crazy talk. :P
I know that the Lexus IS is called the Altezza over there. I would rather have the Altezza name instead of 2 letter naming conventions.
GhostZ
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12/12/2014 at 19:51 |
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In a lot of countries, the only chevy-badged vehicles are Camaros and Corvettes, so I imagine there might be some benefit to offering it to give off an American Exceptionalism vibe.