Cadillac Catera's Siblings
One of the labels I attached to this post is "Badge Engineering" -- where different car brands are based on the same basic body and differences are trivial. That's essentially true of two of the three cars discussed here, but slightly less true of the third. That third car is Cadillac's Catera model that I wrote about here . At the time I didn't show the Opel Omega that it was based on, hence the current post. Further background on the Camera that offered by General Motors for model years 1997-2001 can be found here . At the time, GM owned Germany's Opel firm and England's Vauxhall, the latter selling rebadged Opels with right-side steering. The Wikipedia entry on the Opel (and Vauxhall) Omega is here . Cateras were based on the Omega B1 (1994-1999) and Omega B2 (1999-2003) that had few exterior differences. Even though Cateras were built in Opel's Rüsselsheim factory, they were modified to satisfy presumed American tastes for a sporty Cadillac. U...