Captiva?

Ok.
Friend of mine has the captiva diesel. He is relatively happy but isn't using it for towing or anything. It gets about 12L/100km in mostly town driving. A little higher than expected.

Just to be pedantic....Holden didn't buy Daewoo, General Motors, of which Holden is a minute part, bought them but in fact has owned a large chunk of them for years I believe.

As for which vehicle, I too would pick between CX9 or Kluger. The Captiva looks nice on the road but know little else about them.

Don
From the Sydney Morning Herald 13/12/2005 :
"The P76 Awards..........For seizing the Daewoo: Holden
Soon after taking over Daewoo in Australia, Holden closed it down. It seemed a wise decision, as Australians had comprehensively demonstrated they didn't want Daewoos at anything more than a giveaway price.
Then something odd happened: Holden decided the problem with the cars wasn't that they were boxy, flimsy, agricultural and without flair. No, the problem was that the little chrome badges didn't say Holden. The result? Two Daewoos cynically rebadged as the Holden Barina and Holden Viva, selling on nothing more than price and looking suspiciously, stop us if you've heard this before, boxy, flimsy, agricultural and without flair......."
And of course they were followed by the sensationally epic EPICA!!!
The General is having a lend of us and surely the public at large will wake up eventually.
Once again only my opinion
tessa

Tessa,

Just realised you had responded.

Anyway, Holden or GMH (that is GENERAL MOTORS Holden) may have bought the local distribution franchise but Daewoo remains a part of the global GM fold just as Holden does. In fact Daewoo is probably a lot bigger than Holden but both are small cogs in a very big wheel and both play some part in either development or production of global models.

Holden developed the Omega platform..(Commodore VE) and builds alloy V6 engines that are exported, the latter were not designed here however.

Daewoo builds several cars that are rebadged as other GM makes and you mentioned some, Gemini, Barina and Epica. They are also sold elsewhere as is the Captiva which is an Opel Captiva in Europe and a Vauxhall Captiva in UK.

And unfortunatley, we now get the Daewoo Barina instead of the Opel Corsa which is what the Barina used to be..a vastly superior vehicle.

And, given the global meltdown and GMs precarious position, I would not be surprised if Holden gets the chop as a manufacturer. After all, the only car they develop is the Commodore and big cars are on the way out and GM Europe who make a hell of a lot more cars than GMH make some cars that would be suitable for Australia..Vectra, (new model), Astra and Corsa. Mind you, I think the VE Commodore is their best effort by a country margin.

Enough of me..but I will say that I like the Captiva more than the Territory and I am a bit of a "Fordie".

In the words of one Pauline Hanson, please explain which one of this category of 4wd is an Aussie product??


Disco.

Oops - Delete CX7 from that - not 7 seats?

Good luck to you!!!

tessa

Do you mean that in a good way or that we shouldnt have brought a Prado?

I'm probably the wrong person to comment because I LUV my Prado!!!

tessa

Oh Great! Phew! I wasn't sure if you were being sarcastic :)

I loved it to drive!

Way to go, Its a better choice in my book than that Captiva had one for 4 days and 4000km and wouldnt buy one

Sounds nice. Just a thought, you might want to check the load rating on the 20 inch tyres if you are towing?