Concept on Kappa, Product on Zeta?
01-10-2006, 07:34 PM
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Re: Concept on Kappa, Product on Zeta?
Originally Posted by turbo96z28
Charlie, you and Doug are my new favorite people on the planet.
did you happen to mention the slash Charlie?????
did you happen to mention the slash Charlie?????
Slash?
01-10-2006, 08:32 PM
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01-10-2006, 09:03 PM
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Re: Concept on Kappa, Product on Zeta?
Originally Posted by greg_nate
01-10-2006, 09:05 PM
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Re: Concept on Kappa, Product on Zeta?
Originally Posted by AnthonyHSV
Mate you should read the previous posts in a thread...your doubling up
that article was very informative, and very encouraging..
01-11-2006, 01:13 AM
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Re: Concept on Kappa, Product on Zeta?
Originally Posted by FS3800
hah, i almost doubled up on you, was about to point out the same thing..
that article was very informative, and very encouraging..
that article was very informative, and very encouraging..
Haha no worries...although to be fair its hard to read anything in this forum with the volume of posts that are moving through at present.
01-11-2006, 12:34 PM
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Re: Concept on Kappa, Product on Zeta?
I was chatting with one of the engineers at the Heritage Center and mentioned how much I liked the feel of the Sigma based IRS in the Solstice and how I was looking forward to that feel in the 5th gen. He suggested I should take a GTO for a ride instead...... "Only in the U.S.A.? Pity!"
01-11-2006, 01:38 PM
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Re: Concept on Kappa, Product on Zeta?
Originally Posted by ChrisFrez
I spoke to a GM engineer who put this car together. He said the front end underneath was from a Cadillac STS and the rear was from Holden.
01-11-2006, 01:51 PM
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Re: Concept on Kappa, Product on Zeta?
Originally Posted by Z284ever
But to be honest, the video and unveiling were so dripping with Z/28 images and symbolism....I think I was singing to the choir. 
Agreed Fenster and I were talking on the way to the airport yesterday about how Z/28 would look so right on that car, and I could see you smiling in my mind's eye.
01-11-2006, 02:27 PM
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Re: Concept on Kappa, Product on Zeta?
Originally Posted by guionM
OK guys.
After reviewing the video footage I shot at the show, the rear suspension looks exactly like the CAD drawing, meaning the Zeta IRS. The front suspension is supposed to be McPherson Struts, and since Bob Lutz hogged the front of the car for interviews (j/k... though he did), and I wasn't able to get my recorder underneath the front of the car before they rounded up all of us for the bus, I'm going to have to take the word of the press kit.
Being that the car is 79" wide (nearly 5 inches wider than Cadillac's STS), the rear came from Holden (apparently from the VE), assuming the front is struts, and that the Camaro is going to be based on a car supposedly bigger (wider) than the STS, I'd say we have a cobbled together mule version of the actual chassis guys.
After reviewing the video footage I shot at the show, the rear suspension looks exactly like the CAD drawing, meaning the Zeta IRS. The front suspension is supposed to be McPherson Struts, and since Bob Lutz hogged the front of the car for interviews (j/k... though he did
), and I wasn't able to get my recorder underneath the front of the car before they rounded up all of us for the bus, I'm going to have to take the word of the press kit.Being that the car is 79" wide (nearly 5 inches wider than Cadillac's STS), the rear came from Holden (apparently from the VE), assuming the front is struts, and that the Camaro is going to be based on a car supposedly bigger (wider) than the STS, I'd say we have a cobbled together mule version of the actual chassis guys.
01-11-2006, 02:38 PM
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Re: Concept on Kappa, Product on Zeta?
Originally Posted by Meccadeth
Isn't this pretty big news?
Yeah wow!
Are we closer to production then we may think?
We may want to dedicate a new thread to this and really start hammering out a time frame of what is know about getting this car to the street
01-11-2006, 02:52 PM
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Re: Concept on Kappa, Product on Zeta?
Originally Posted by stars1010
Yeah wow!
Are we closer to production then we may think?
We may want to dedicate a new thread to this and really start hammering out a time frame of what is know about getting this car to the street
Are we closer to production then we may think?
We may want to dedicate a new thread to this and really start hammering out a time frame of what is know about getting this car to the street
i'll leave the new thread up to you.
01-11-2006, 02:58 PM
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Re: Concept on Kappa, Product on Zeta?
Originally Posted by turbo96z28
i'll leave the new thread up to you.
I'll get my thoughts together on the ride home from work and post one up later tonight if you or someone else doesnt beat me to it.
01-11-2006, 03:03 PM
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Re: Concept on Kappa, Product on Zeta?
Originally Posted by stars1010
By all means after you sir!
I'll get my thoughts together on the ride home from work and post one up later tonight if you or someone else doesnt beat me to it.
I'll get my thoughts together on the ride home from work and post one up later tonight if you or someone else doesnt beat me to it.
all yours my friend.
i'm still egtting website stogether for the show dates thread.
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