An inside look at GM (from 1999)
05-08-2010, 08:01 PM
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An inside look at GM (from 1999)
I haven't had a chance to watch this yet but it should be interesting.
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ins...rs-circa-1999/
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ins...rs-circa-1999/
05-09-2010, 12:37 PM
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I remember hearing Wayne Cherry brag about the Aztek and how it showed what his styling guys could do when they weren't encumbered by Engineering. What a douschecanoe. So glad he is gone. If you walked in the studio after it came out, nobody would even admit to having worked on it.
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05-12-2010, 12:55 PM
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Few notes.
Wayne Cherry wasn't a bad designer and certainly wasn't a bad chief of design.
The IDEA behind the Aztek wasn't half bad in it's initial design. The problem was that by the time it was adapted to the platform, other departments put their finger in design, and it was consumer cliniced to death, then redone by comittee, it looked like absolute garbage.
That foam GTO concept from 1999 is the only public glimpse into what that Sigma based 5th gen Camaro GM was getting together would have resembled. The hardpoints and proportions were based on GM's then planned Sigma-based sports coupe.
The initial idea was that the Pontiac GTO and the 5th Camaro would be platform mates (the Firebird name apparently was doomed even in the late 90s). When the project was killed, GM-NA looked at Holden's then new "V" chassis as a replacement platform. Chevy opted out of the platform for Camaro (though I doubt GM would have sprang the money to make it at Ste Therese), and it took Bob Lutz's arrival to break the "Not-Invented-Here" roadblock and got the Monaro here for Pontiac.
Wayne Cherry wasn't a bad designer and certainly wasn't a bad chief of design.
The IDEA behind the Aztek wasn't half bad in it's initial design. The problem was that by the time it was adapted to the platform, other departments put their finger in design, and it was consumer cliniced to death, then redone by comittee, it looked like absolute garbage.
That foam GTO concept from 1999 is the only public glimpse into what that Sigma based 5th gen Camaro GM was getting together would have resembled. The hardpoints and proportions were based on GM's then planned Sigma-based sports coupe.
The initial idea was that the Pontiac GTO and the 5th Camaro would be platform mates (the Firebird name apparently was doomed even in the late 90s). When the project was killed, GM-NA looked at Holden's then new "V" chassis as a replacement platform. Chevy opted out of the platform for Camaro (though I doubt GM would have sprang the money to make it at Ste Therese), and it took Bob Lutz's arrival to break the "Not-Invented-Here" roadblock and got the Monaro here for Pontiac.
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