"Superman" Taurus
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Hrm...Impala better show up at NYIAS with some really nice body pannels.
Hrm...Impala better show up at NYIAS with some really nice body pannels.
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I guess its time to talk about Impala.
With Oshawa building Camaro's, will they also be able to build Impala on Wbody? Since LaX is going to Epsilon, there are no more other w bodies being built??
So what is going on? Will we be surprised come NYIAS?
With so much Camaro talk and Malibu talk, the focus has fallen off the Impala. What is GM's plan?
With Oshawa building Camaro's, will they also be able to build Impala on Wbody? Since LaX is going to Epsilon, there are no more other w bodies being built??
So what is going on? Will we be surprised come NYIAS?
With so much Camaro talk and Malibu talk, the focus has fallen off the Impala. What is GM's plan?
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One rumor I've heard is that it will still go to Zeta, regardless of Bob Lutz' comment that future Zeta projects after the Camaro are on hold.
Another rumor I've heard is that it will remain on the W-body platform. Unless GM takes a bold approach with the styling and other upgrades, this will fail. The W-body is old, and the current model's styling is incredibly bland. If it stays on the W-body, it's gonna take some serious work to make it a competitor in the marketplace.
Another rumor I've heard is that it will remain on the W-body platform. Unless GM takes a bold approach with the styling and other upgrades, this will fail. The W-body is old, and the current model's styling is incredibly bland. If it stays on the W-body, it's gonna take some serious work to make it a competitor in the marketplace.
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Impala won't be on Zeta. Most likely it will be on Espilon.
The most plausible thing I've heard so far is that there will be a premium Chevy sedan based on Camaro's Zeta which will be sold in lower volume than planned if it had been Impala.
There's those who are going to say a Zeta based Chevy sedan is deader than a doornail, but then again, they said the G8 coupe was nothing but computer code too.
Bottom line is that plans aren't nailed down solid until 12-18 months before production. For cars planned for 2012MY, that still leaves about a year and a half before things go concrete.
The interior quality of the FiveHundred...er...current Taurus isn't half bad, so I'd imagine that the new Taurus would at least be as good, though most likely better.
The most plausible thing I've heard so far is that there will be a premium Chevy sedan based on Camaro's Zeta which will be sold in lower volume than planned if it had been Impala.
There's those who are going to say a Zeta based Chevy sedan is deader than a doornail, but then again, they said the G8 coupe was nothing but computer code too.
Bottom line is that plans aren't nailed down solid until 12-18 months before production. For cars planned for 2012MY, that still leaves about a year and a half before things go concrete.
The interior quality of the FiveHundred...er...current Taurus isn't half bad, so I'd imagine that the new Taurus would at least be as good, though most likely better.
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Good looking car ... not too bland or generic, but not too aggressive so as to alienate people. My only knock against it would be that nothing about it says "Ford" ... you could put almost any Asian nameplate on its nose and it would seem at home. Then again, given how Fords of recent years have looked, maybe that's not a bad thing.
I happen to think the original Five Hundred was a good looking car too, in an understated, Audi-esque kind of way. The Fusion grille pasted onto the Taurus makeover threw all that goodness out the window though.
I happen to think the original Five Hundred was a good looking car too, in an understated, Audi-esque kind of way. The Fusion grille pasted onto the Taurus makeover threw all that goodness out the window though.
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Impala won't be on Zeta. Most likely it will be on Espilon.
The most plausible thing I've heard so far is that there will be a premium Chevy sedan based on Camaro's Zeta which will be sold in lower volume than planned if it had been Impala.
There's those who are going to say a Zeta based Chevy sedan is deader than a doornail, but then again, they said the G8 coupe was nothing but computer code too.
Bottom line is that plans aren't nailed down solid until 12-18 months before production. For cars planned for 2012MY, that still leaves about a year and a half before things go concrete.
The most plausible thing I've heard so far is that there will be a premium Chevy sedan based on Camaro's Zeta which will be sold in lower volume than planned if it had been Impala.
There's those who are going to say a Zeta based Chevy sedan is deader than a doornail, but then again, they said the G8 coupe was nothing but computer code too.
Bottom line is that plans aren't nailed down solid until 12-18 months before production. For cars planned for 2012MY, that still leaves about a year and a half before things go concrete.
