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This is way off topic and might be better in the videos section but I thought a few might enjoy this YouTube hidden gem. While exchanging some friendly banter with a buddy of mine who is currently in Le Mans imagining himself to be Steve McQueen, where I noted he was closer in looks, girth and charisma to a Pontiac Le Mans than a Le Mans Porsche, I stumbled across this on the internet:
1988 Pontiac LeMans | Retro Review - YouTube

If you have a spare 7 minutes or so, the contradictions in this review are outstanding.

NB: think this was sold in the UK as the Astra but in NZ (where I was a youngster at the time) it was most definitely, a Pontiac Le Mans. Racey Exotica.
Pontiac LeMans commercial New Zealand [1989] - YouTube

Speaking of Le Mans, this is also nice:

On Board with Mike Hawthorn at Le Mans 1956 | D-type Jaguar - YouTube

some great one liners.

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In South Africa they made the Opel Kadett GSI Superboss, which was a group N homologation special. Massive cams for a street car and a 2L engine, it was a brute for an NA and thankfully nothing like the Pontiac LeMans - I have plenty of fond passenger seat memories of these beasts. If you had the coin and could find one you had a Superboss, I just had access to my aunts 1.3 Kadett which made no effort to hide that it was not a "LeMans" car. 

Opel Kadett 2.0 GSI Superboss Print (A2 & A3) – SentiMETAL Shop

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And then of course, they filed the corners off a tiny bit and made the Daewoo Cielo and kept making it WELL past it's use-by date:

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Apparently Uzbekistan was punished with them until 2016 in sedan form 😫
 

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That platform was rebadged so many times, pretty sure it got uglier with each though. 

Bringing this back to BMW though - here is the best variant:

D'awww, it thinks it's a BMW. : r/Shitty_Car_Mods

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54 minutes ago, Twistee said:

That platform was rebadged so many times, pretty sure it got uglier with each though. 

Bringing this back to BMW though - here is the best variant:

D'awww, it thinks it's a BMW. : r/Shitty_Car_Mods

2025 M3 co-developed with new Honda Civic Type R confirmed

 

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