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It is don't you remember seeing the bare body from the leaked plant pics?

It has been hinted that the Brazil BOF platform would underpin the next Colorado/Canyon as well as a Hummer version. It has even been thrown around that it could possibly have a car variant!68 don't wet yourself over the thought of a modern BOF RWD car just yet. It was a hint that it was possible not that it was happening.

Anyone know anything about this?I assume it is the Brazillian chassis but who knows.

I won't disagree w/ the other stuff but this is I do. Bigger wheels=bigger tires which cost more $$$. Something that not everyone is willing to pony up to in a few years. Some people buy the base model and don't want to drop $200 per tire when the time comes for new tires. Personally it made a difference for me not to upgrade to the large wheels on the 08 Escape I just bought.

Toyota thinks it is OK, too. Take a look at their 4 cylinder cars.http://www.toyota.com/yaris/specs.html?s_v..._TN_YARIS_SPECS http://www.toyota.com/corolla/specs.html?s...N_COROLLA_SPECS

Wow do you realize that the difference is 30,000 vehicles produced?! Not sold but produced! GM could easily pull out a few stops and bump Impala production 30k and be tied but instead they are limiting the sales to keep residuals high and quality up. That may seem like a bad thing but I think that is a good thing. It shows more commitment to the long term.

Hmm...Mazda 5 at 43%. I wondered why I never saw them. Avenger at 79%! All the LX cars are near or above 50%! Volvo S40 at 37%. Some surprises there.

While I have not read Dave's book I did read ACAR several times and also the GM C6 book that was putout around SOP. Autoweek is a secondary source and should always be questioned. Look at how many times a partial quote has been expanded to mean something 100% different, the Zeta on hold thing for example. The C4 represented the greatest threat to Corvette in its history. The car was old, outdated and ran WAY to long. Many higher ups wanted GM to be FWD unibody cars and Trucks/SUVs. If not for the dedication of the Corvette team and creative accounting the C5 would never have happened. That being said GM never thought to kill it seriously. Also being on hold pending financial approval is not even close to being canceled. Almost every program is put on hold at some point. It is the time at which the bean counters examine the business case and decide if it will be profitable enough to do or if the business case needs to be redone. You gotta link to this or are you going from memory. Without seeing the exact quote I can't speculate on what it said but I doubt seriously that Corvette was ever in jeopardy. Sure the Corvette guys didn't want to share their platform, the original idea for XLR to ride on a modified Sigma didn't pan out, and so the suits said this is how it is going to be. But you know what the extra funds that the XLR program provided to the C6 development benefited Corvette. XLR didn't take away funds it added funds. The C6 business case would have been made on its own without XLR if need be. The Kappa cars have a completely different business case. The LOW cost $19,999 base Solstice was going to be unprofitable based on its projected volume so the Saturn version (shared w/ Opel et al) was added to spread the costs out to make the cheap base Solstices at least doable if not profitable. But Corvette isn't a low volume car at a cheap price. It is a low volume car at a high price. There is not much materials cost difference b/t the Kappa and Y body chassis. The powertrain adds cost and so do options but overall the price increase is justified by the performance of the Corvette vs the Kappa cars. I never saw said V6 concept and I doubt it had a brand name or model name attatched to it. The car if it existed was likely nothing more than an engineering mule. What is the name of the book? I may have to add it to my collection. But as for reading it now, not enough time. Barely enough time to get on C&G at all 32 credit hours this semester will do that to yah!

It still wears one!

Umm...the C6 program got started within a couple of years of the C5 starting production. I would be freakin' shocked and amazed if GM ever thought about cancelling the C6. And I doubt it ever happened and until you provide proof you get the BS flag from me on that one. Whoa right there. Chevy isn't sharing their plant nearly as much as you might think. Having seen both lines the XLRs take NO room compared to the Vette line. It is a separate line and has a different assembly process to boot. No. Vette doesn't get a free pass it pays its own way. The C5/6 are self funding. Their profit covers their costs and then some. The actual production cost of the C6 is likely higher than only BOF trucks.And since nobody has mentioned this the Corvette brand idea came up in the 90s and was never really considered. This splitting off idea will NEVER happen and the Kappa Vette was a figment of someone's imagination.

Say it w/ me now "Corsa, Corsa...."

Nothing if it was a Chevy. But if your paying Hummer prices wouldn't you rather have this?

Nice now shrink the interior and put it into a H3.

Sorry its an assumption. I figured it was based on their 4.2L V8.

Sorry I ain't buying those figures. 721 ft/lbs of torque?! I really doubt they are punching that power outta a 5.0 V8 gas engine, maybe a high strung diesel but come on that is Duramax territory!

That isn't new the Envoy XUV had that first. And WAY back in the day Station wagons had tail gates that did this. Might want to check out the Explorer Sport Trac for that one. Sure but its newer. Compared to a same year Silverado and it gets beat. And so could a Trailblazer, whats the big deal?Not trying to be difficult but more to inform.

Mazda RX8. How nice of a ride that would be w/ more power.

No crap. That is F'd up.

Yeah what a terrible idea: give your largest volume and profit brand a version of a chassis that will very likely outsell all others COMBINED! What idiots they are.

I think that is the most telling part of this article. F4s weighed in around 3500 lbs. I guess the Camaro will be close to Chrysler's LX cars and Ford's GT500 in weight.

That video seemed a little much for basically an exterior update. You would think from the way that guy was talking that they had a whole new car being debuted.

While a nice engine GM needs to offer a smaller less powerful/more fuel efficient version in the states, like they do in Europe. Maybe then the GM bashers will find a new complaint about the Delta cars besides they get poor gas mileage (which they do) for the class.

The Corvette will continue to dominate its market as it has since the 60s. BTW it gets better gas mileage than anything remotely comparable. BTW I don't think the sky is falling quite yet but when it does be sure your tin foil hat is ready to go.

If it was I didn't see it.