Every time i think about it, it gets more and more fucking ridiculous. Why the fuck doesn't the country that designed and produced the car (excluding the engine, however Tom Walkinshaws company did the blower setup) get the best models. Fuck it, Australian Automotive died with the introduction of Chevrolet badges on Commodores and Fords refusal to make a decent V8 after the 351.
While I agree it doesn't exactly seem fair, you have to remember that Holden is owned by GM. They are notorious for making dumb decisions. Why they too so long to bring the Astra over here still boggles my mind. Even after we get our version of it, it's not near as good as the European one. Why NA gets the shaft on good cars has never made sense to me. I'm sick of boring, slow, uninspiring cars. We should have got the real STi's long ago, as well as the Civic Type R, Astra OPC/VXR, and the real EVO. We get all the watered down versions.