And Opel's bosses seem to want to take the GT further. Unfortunately, as Karl-Thomas Neumann, Opel's CEO, admitted to Motor Trend, there is no suitable RWD platform in GM. This is a tiny car.

The Opel GT is a great collector's car, with very average performance. However, the styling of the car remains timeless. BTW, I am writing this for any of the years when the GT was in production ...

This near-perfect 1973 Opel GT, which will be sold at RM Sotheby’s upcoming auction of the eclectic Elkhart Collection, will make even the most diehard of American car fans stand up and take notice.

In 2007, Tamera Rickman, Charlie's wife, found an orange 1973 Opel GT on Craigslist. They bought the car and had it shipped from Oregon a few weeks later. "It sat in the garage," Charlie says.

And no doubt if he could sell a helpful number of GTs in the Americas, badged as Buicks, he'd be only too delighted. After all, the original 1968-73 Opel GT -- one of which Neumann personally owns ...