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01-22-2005, 03:03 PM | #1 | |
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Chevy's Aggresive New Car Lineup for 05
SUMMARY: <span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Verdana">Chevrolet introduces four more new models to its expansive line of cars and trucks in the 2005 model year, including the highly anticipated next-generation Corvette.</span>
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10-09-2005, 12:41 PM | #2 | |
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just saw this in the monte carlo..3.4L V6 with only 180 hp..that is pretty terrible..and the supercharged still only has 240, very low for being 3.8L and SC'd..
so..more power is needed i would think and the cobalt supercharged 4 cylinder is 205 hp.. the civic NA is 197, lol..the SI that is..just to make that clear.. POWER POWER POWER!! so i guess it's not gonna be TOO "aggressive" |
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10-09-2005, 04:19 PM | #3 | |
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Hp/liter is just a number.
check the link for the new aluminum Corvette Z06 New Corvette Z06 check the link for the new Cobalt New Cobalt It has won three races in Grand-Am Cup. Coblat in racing GM has revived rwd plans. GM reverses course, says revised version of Zeta rear-drive architecture is back on track Automotive News 9/12/05 DETROIT - Six months after General Motors halted plans to use its Zeta rear-wheel-drive car architecture in North America, the company has revived the program. In an interview with Automotive News last week, Jim Queen, GM's vice president of global engineering, said a revised version of Zeta is back on track. Engineered at GM's Holden subsidiary in Australia, Zeta was expected to be the basis of the next-generation Pontiac Grand Prix and GTO; the Chevrolet Impala, Monte Carlo and a new version of the Camaro; and other vehicles. Vehicles in the program were expected to debut as early as 2006. Queen did not discuss vehicles on the new version of Zeta or timing. Some vehicles that could be in the Zeta program include the next-generation Pontiac GTO as well as a Chevrolet coupe and sedans. They could debut by the 2009 or 2010 model year, say one company source and one industry analyst. Queen said initial plans for Zeta stretched the architecture beyond its limits for some North American vehicles. "We needed to reassess and reconfigure the program," he said. "As we started counting who was in and who was out of Zeta, we realized too late" that Zeta would not work in North America, Queen said. Part of GM's reasoning in slowing Zeta's development was to focus on pulling forward its full-sized SUVs and pickups. GM's next-generation SUVs will debut early next year. At the time, GM Vice Chairman Robert Lutz wrote on GM's FastLane blog that GM had "canceled & plans to build rear-wheel-drive vehicles off the Zeta architecture." "But that does not mean we've canceled plans to build rear-drive vehicles altogether," Lutz wrote. "We are simply reallocating resources (human and financial) to pull some other programs ahead and get other vehicles to market sooner." The revised Zeta program is being developed in GM's Australian engineering center. The vehicle line executive on the program is Gene Stefanyshyn, the former vehicle line executive for GM's Epsilon, or mid-sized cars, in North America. A GM spokesman said no product plans have been approved and that GM still is studying design themes, performance characteristics and variants for Zeta vehicles. GM uses the term "architecture" to signify a common set of components, performance characteristics, a common manufacturing process, a range of dimensions and connecting points for key component systems. |
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