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Old Oct 18, 2006 | 09:36 AM
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Re: Monte Carlo and Grand Prix get the axe next year....

Originally Posted by Jason E
74% of GP sales are to fleet? Wow...that is so, so pathetic. And to think of all the '97-'03 GPs that GM sold, that were such a big hit...
I still think that the 97 GP is one of the best looking cars GM has done in recent memory. I remember when the '95 300 GPX show car came outthinking that there was no way the production car would look anywhere near as good. But happily I was wrong and the 1997 GP ended up being almost identical other than the hood and wheels and tires.
Old Oct 18, 2006 | 09:42 AM
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Re: Monte Carlo and Grand Prix get the axe next year....

Originally Posted by SharpShooter_SS
Really that's the shame of the whole thing. Not to knock Holden or anything, they've been putting out some really good product (which we should have access to...). Our own brands have really been outshone here in comparison, except for maybe Cadillac, but for Pontiac to be reduced to a serving as a boutique, peddling another divisions wares under its own badge really underscores where they've come.
Pontiac will sell home grown stuff as well. IF this small RWD sedan & coupe come to lite, although Holden will also sell it, odds are it will be built here, as is Solstice.

GMNA were once the masters of designing and building full (and mid)-size RWD cars - no one did it better. To have wandered into the woods as far as they have is inexcusable.
That's what happens when you make everything FWD for over 25 years. Outside the Sigma, the last ground up, "volume" RWD chassis GM-NA made was the 3rd gen F-body, which was started in the late 70s with the Vega (from the late 60s) as a jump off point.
Old Oct 18, 2006 | 09:43 AM
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Re: Monte Carlo and Grand Prix get the axe next year....

I wonder if the US Commodore willl have a L76 or LS2 V8.
Old Oct 18, 2006 | 11:03 AM
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Re: Monte Carlo and Grand Prix get the axe next year....

What body are they gonna use for Nascar or is this new "car of tomorrow" Nascar is using gonna be so generic that they just stick chevy decals on it and they all look the same with just diff motor's and stickers.
Old Oct 18, 2006 | 11:08 AM
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Re: Monte Carlo and Grand Prix get the axe next year....

NASCAR's car-of-tomorrow will allow car makers to make whatever they want with no concessions. By the time you paint them with a multicolored scheme, dress them with 500 contingancy decals all around, and slap some stickers on it could be a "lumina" an no one would know the difference.

Car makers should start cammo'ing their test mules in NASCAR trim instead of checkerboards, lol. ...
Old Oct 18, 2006 | 03:58 PM
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Re: Monte Carlo and Grand Prix get the axe next year....

Originally Posted by 97z28/m6
that's ok.....he drives on the wrong side of the road anyways.
Funny I thought it was the "Right" hand drive car, on the correct side of the road.
Old Oct 18, 2006 | 04:02 PM
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Re: Monte Carlo and Grand Prix get the axe next year....

Originally Posted by AnthonyHSV
Funny I thought it was the "Right" hand drive car, on the correct side of the road.
i was waiting for the comeback.
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