Anyone see this about the 2013 Impala?
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Anyone see this about the 2013 Impala?
From another site said to be from GM inside news:
http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showth...&highlight=Z28
2013: Impala: The current Impala finally dies in 2013. Once the current car is discontinued, it will go on a 2-3 year hiatus and return again; reportedly on the a long wheel base version of the Alpha rear-wheel drive platform.
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Can we stop speculating about 2013, 2014, 2015, 2020??!?!?
We don't even know what the next 52 days is going to bring and here we are playing a guessing game on what's going where and how long it's going to take to get there.
We don't even know what the next 52 days is going to bring and here we are playing a guessing game on what's going where and how long it's going to take to get there.
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It's fun to speculate about the future, but although Ford has a pretty solid product schedule, and ironically, so does Chrysler as long as it merges with Fiat (if it doesn't, it's pretty much toast), General Motors future products schedule is by no means solid.... or even jelled.
I posted this in another thread about a week or two ago, but again:
DISCARD EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW OR MAY HAVE HEARD ABOUT GM'S FUTURE PRODUCT PLANS!
The requirements the Feds are placing on GM will DEMAND that many things regarding GM's recovery be greatly ACCELERATED!..... and this includes new products.
At the same time, in order to finance this, some products will be postponed or cancelled. The focus will be on returning GM to solvency while making better products and far less emphasis on trucks and SUVs....quickly!
GM's March 31st plan (that touted the Volt and continued reliance on SUVs while creeping along with developing new cars) GM was thrown out the window. GM now has till June 1st to submit a new plan. That plan will have greater emphasis on cars and almost certainly a more aggresive timetable for getting them out (as well as likely a more aggresive timetable for shutting other divisions, freeing up resources).
If a vehicle isn't scheduled to be in showrooms by fall of next year, then disregard anything you hear about them until GM submits it's new plans and they get approved June 1st or GM goes through a limited bankruptcy (basically a court protected plan to set wages, close dealers and brands, shed some more white & blue collar workers, and shove a deal down bondholder's throats) and emerges out the other side 30-60 days later.
Until either one of those things happen, EVERYTHING that isn't in production already or about to go into production is pure speculation.
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So they're saying the current Impala will be around for another 4 model years?
My God, the automotive world had already passed that vehicle over when it was refreshed in 2005/6. Another 4 model years is going to let it linger for another automotive eon. That doesn't sound like a plan to get people buying GM products again...
My God, the automotive world had already passed that vehicle over when it was refreshed in 2005/6. Another 4 model years is going to let it linger for another automotive eon. That doesn't sound like a plan to get people buying GM products again...
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