True, they'd have to buy engines from another team and while it works well for some teams they'd want to use this platform as an engineering and marketing exercise.
No Opel engine + car of the future = Very little about this car is Opelised at all.
Lets hope they have plans for a saloon so this prospect becomes more legitimate.

AFL sponsorship is pretty huge though, it's big everywhere bar NSW + QLD. You think they'll put the blitz on any of the league teams?