Toyota... No Holdon... uhm maybe Toyota....

[Mux213]

Yeah I think that was the only way to get your car to market at some point, make holden sell them for you

Its really amazing, I think there are Holdens running around which are from a dozen different brands in Europa. The swift indeed, I believe its sold as a Holden Barina, but also most of the Deawoo cars run around here Holden badged

Anyways, the Lexcen is an interesting gasguzzler, it looks ok but its not in the best nick. It seems to run ok enough but there are some issues with the engine. My wife's friend's husband mentioned he recently had some fixes done but wasn't happy with the result at all. From working on the engine in my neighbors car I didn't really get the idea the engine was difficult. I did get the idea Holden engineers had a field day trying to modify this FWD buick engine to its RWD combination. The way things are organised in the engine bay look like many of the engine bays of our Hachi's look when we try to fit in engines from late model FWD rolla's, nothing fits and everything is in places you can see weren't designed for it. They even split the coolent reservior in two, a pressure reservoir and an overfill reservior at opposite sides of the engine bay, wtf?!? Its a maze with coolent lines through the entire engine bay..

But hey I aint complaining, I'll get this car checked out to see if I can expect any serious repairs in the near future and then choose between either the lexcen or the station and end up with a cheap run around for the family. Lots better then spending $$$$$ I need for more important things.

I did have a big laugh tonight though. I filled up the lexcen, 45 liters, the tank was nearly empty. Ended up paying 55 AUD. I'm sure you australians think thats a lot, but the last time I filled up my Hachi it was 35 liters and I paid over 50 euros, that over 100 AUD by todays currency rates !!!!