Why is Vauxhall called Opel in Germany?
Although for many years Vauxhall and Opel have been owned by General Motors for many years they were run as separate companies competing in the UK market but not in Europe, up until the 80’s it was possible to by a new Opel car in the UK, with rationalisation and cost cutting the models began to overlap so Opel withdrew from the UK market, today some Vauxhall models are built by Opel. With regard to the comment made about most country’s using left hand drive cars, this is incorrect, today right hand drive is used throughout Africa, Asia, the Indian sub continent, Australia, New Zealand, left hand drive is mainly reserved to Europe and the America’s.
