1979 Opel Commercials
The tale of this smartly styled coupe starts with the T-car platform. In 1976, back in the days when Opels were still sold through Buick dealers, currency exchange fluctuations worked to make the taut little Manta coupe a bit more expensive than the showroom competition–not the sort of thing you want from your loss-leader captive-import brand. Enter Isuzu: Their fastback version of the GM T-car kinda looked the same as the Manta, filled the same niche in the showroom, and was ten to fifteen percent cheaper than the German. Source…
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