Car brand loyalty? was: Is it time to leave Lenovo?

[Norway Pad]

Now that RBS got the thread got back on track, I can shortly tell what cars I have enjoyed the most. When I lived in the US, I bought a 1980 C3 Corvette, and later brought it to Norway. I won't post a picture, as most of you probably know what a C3 looks like. A fun drive and beautiful shape, but with the 190hp L48 engine, it wasn't exactly a rocket. It was later sold when I bought my house. I will one day own a Corvette again, but hopefully a newer one, preferably a C5.

Another previous car is an Opel Omega Evolution 500. Probably totally unknown to anyone outside Europe. Not my car on this picture, but they all looked exactly the same: black metallic and 18" ATS wheels.

Opel used their Omega saloon in the German DTM racing series, and had to make a series of 500 homologation cars for sale to the public (Hence the name). So the Evo 500 street car looked just like the race car, with wide arch extensions, retractable front splitter and a rear wing that was raised according to the vehicle speed. A fun and fast car, but all the added body parts were not rust treated, and replacements parts were expensive. A real head turner and a cool car to have owned at one point, but I was kind of ambivalent the day it left my yard with a new owner behind the wheel. The DTM homologation rules in the early 90's also brought us cars like the BMW M3 Evo 2 and 3 models, which are probably better known in the US than the Opel.

[DaKKS]

I actually a little surprised that Sweden allows foreign licensed cars, DaKKs, if you live and work in Sweden permanently. Even if you are a citizen of Hungary. But it apparently works..

Its a loophole. You're only allowed to drive a foreign car for a month before you're supposed to register it. But if the car leaves the country, you get an additional month. That being said, I don't always leave the country every month, but often enough for me not feel bad about it. Besides, even if I didn't, we don't have border crossings, they cant check if it actually left the country.

My girlfriend and I did the same thing before, she drove my swedish plated saab in england, and I drove her british skoda here in sweden. She got to keep her drivers licence, and I saved 6 euros a day in congestion tax. If the cops asked, we just borrowed each others cars. Its not defined how long you're allowed to borrow someone else's car. In either country. Though, it was fun to explain why I'm driving a british car in sweden, registered to a british citizen, that has the most swedish name ever.