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Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
According to Autoweek, anyway...
(If this is old news, please disregard)
Originally Posted by Autoweek
Camaro coming
Dodge won’t get all the muscle car buzz with its Challenger concept at the Detroit auto show this January. Word is General Motors will show a Camaro concept on a stretched Kappa (Solstice, Sky) chassis. The car is set for production as a 2009 model, sources say. The other GM concept for Detroit won’t be a Pontiac Firebird, but more likely will be a Buick crossover. |
Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
Let's not be sidetracked by this guys. It's only a donor chassis. Thanks for posting Darth.
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Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
Originally Posted by IREngineer
Let's not be sidetracked by this guys. It's only a donor chassis. Thanks for posting Darth.
A fine point... I was not intending to imply that the production car would be the same... just the concept. |
Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
Originally Posted by IREngineer
Let's not be sidetracked by this guys. It's only a donor chassis. Thanks for posting Darth.
Yeah, but it's my understanding that this is not the donor chassis. Hmmm odd. Wonder where all this Kappa stuff is coming from? Someone with usually pretty solid info posted something about a Kappa derived Camaro on C&G and GMI recently. |
Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
Seems everyone and their brother made it clear not to expect the chassis under the concept to be the production chassis. One even reminded me the original Solstice was a modified J car, and the production version had something totally new and different.
Hints don't get much more obvious than that. :) |
Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
Originally Posted by Z284ever
Yeah, but it's my understanding that this is not the donor chassis. Hmmm odd. Wonder where all this Kappa stuff is coming from? Someone with usually pretty solid info posted something about a Kappa derived Camaro on C&G and GMI recently.
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Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
Originally Posted by guionM
Seems everyone and their brother made it clear not to expect the chassis under the concept to be the production chassis. One even reminded me the original Solstice was a modified J car, and the production version had something totally new and different.
Hints don't get much more obvious than that. :) |
Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
Originally Posted by number77
But I thought this car was along farther than we all thought? :confused:
even so, GM wouldn't show their hand this early if the car is still 18 months away from launch. |
Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
Originally Posted by turbo96z28
even so, GM wouldn't show their hand this early if the car is still 18 months away from launch.
GM has been working on this car for how 3 years, Chrysler working on its Challenger for 1 year (maybe less). If the Challenger beats the 5th gen to the market, I don't care if it is low volume, it would be undeniable proof that GM is a slowpoke. |
Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
Originally Posted by number77
18 months huh?
GM has been working on this car for how 3 years, Chrysler working on its Challenger for 1 year (maybe less). If the Challenger beats the 5th gen to the market, I don't care if it is low volume, it would be undeniable proof that GM is a slowpoke. don't forget 18 months would mean the car would see launch by mid CY2007. maybe we might get our 40th anniversary after all... |
Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
BS, the Challenger is built on an LX chassis thats engineering dates back to the 80's.
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Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
Word, look at the beltline on the Challenger it is freaking high just like the LX cars. If people think that LX and LY are totally unrelated then they are stupid.
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Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
Originally Posted by Sixer-Bird
What other donor platforms could there be? Sigma? VY or VE? Or maybe something similar to the Belaire concept? I guess it really doesn't matter what platform the concept is on. Just as long as it's there.
Probably mostly Sigma - for the concept. |
Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
I dont care to speculate on the chassis since its not gonna be a production chassis . I just cant wait to see it in the flesh :)
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Re: Camaro Concept will be on a stretched Kappa chassis
Originally Posted by number77
18 months huh?
GM has been working on this car for how 3 years |
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