I traveled to Oshawa, Ontario yesterday with Polish Kris. We cruised around the W body facilities and GM Canada Headquarters.
The place is massive. There are overflow lots filled with Impalas and Monte Carlos as far as the eye can see. The trains pull up, and the cars are loaded for shipping.
At one corner, we saw GM employees drive a virtual parade of Impala SS' fresh from the factory, straight to the shipping yard. They floored them pretty good too. :lol:
We spotted some interesting stuff.
There appears to be a running change to the Pontiac Solstice. The split foglights are gone, replaced by turn signal units as seen on the Grand Prix GXP. No big deal as they are shared components. We spotted at least 20 Solstices all over the place, mostly dark green and a few red and dark silver. Sweet cars.
We pulled into an employee parking lot that had any and every 06 Gm you could imagine. We parked beside a blue Zo6 Corvette, got out and spotted several STS's, a DTS, new VUE's, Pursuit coupes, Cobalt SS Supercharged, GP GXP, HHR etc etc etc!
Then, we spotted some really cool stuff. In one storage yard, there appeared to be the original 1999 Chevy Silverado concept truck!
This one:
In the same yard, were several smashed cars, one being a brand new STS (sad).
There were two Chevy Equinox early build mules. They were unpainted (white), with blacked out badges and exposed tailights.
We didnt have a camera, but Kris promised to take some pictures today. I hope he does. All in all, it was a pretty cool trip. No Lucernes unfortunately.