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Holden's Managing Director Steps Down
Drew Dowdell replied to William Maley's topic in Heritage Marques
There was a mis-configuration with the Holden forum where news articles from the front page weren't getting posted. I fixed it the other day, so now all the old articles got dumped into the Holden forum all at once. -
There was a mis-configuration with the Holden forum where news articles from the front page weren't getting posted. I fixed it the other day, so now all the old articles got dumped into the Holden forum all at once.
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Is it just me or are we really getting back to the "Jet Engine Intake" look that was around in the 1950s?
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Which would just smack of "Old GM" thinking if true.
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End of the Road for VW's Iconic Camper Van
Drew Dowdell replied to G. David Felt's topic in Volkswagen
I only ever really liked the early versions... -
Rumorpile: Holden Ute Gets A Pink Slip
Drew Dowdell replied to William Maley's topic in Heritage Marques
There was a mis-configuration with the Holden forum where news articles from the front page weren't getting posted. I fixed it the other day, so now all the old article got dumped into the Holden forum all at once. The article is dated Oct 30th. -
It worked for Lexus.
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Lambas are getting lighter and smaller anyway.
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That was to appeal to Camino.
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As of this week, the leashes are off from the Gub'mint and starting Jan 7, GM will have (by far) the youngest leadership team in the industry lead by people who know product rather than accounting.
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The 3.6 can't make that much power in transverse layout and it would be a shame to drop the very nicely refined 2.5 they currently have.
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Just a reminder that Alpha can go smaller than the ATS... such a car would most likely be 4-cylinder only, but I would imagine turbos being available.
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Buick coupe? Cadillac Coupe?
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2 Cadillac sedans, possibly a Cadillac concept coupe (platform wasn't defined). We're 99% certain Camaro is going on it, Cadillac is getting at least an ATS coupe the mules have already been spied, Buick is probably getting a coupe, and if the Caprice survives, it will probably ride on that too. That's Sedan/Coupe/Convertible (Camaro) right there. The expansion of Opel in Europe even allows for the potential for wagons.
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GM has done this with plenty of things and we've moved on. Can we move on over Zeta now that a superior platform has supplanted it?
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Honda News: Honda Teases The Next Ridgeline, Due Out In 2016
Drew Dowdell replied to William Maley's topic in Honda
If I hadn't been told it was a Honda, I would have thought it was a slightly refreshed Nissan Titan.
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That may well be, but it hardly excuses wasting an entire generation of very good RWD cars. So many lost opportunities. The problem was, and always has been, building them in the US. Was there enough demand to warrant a second Zeta factory in the US? GM thought not. In essence, Sigma and Zeta got consolidated into one better platform rather than running with two. It makes business sense today to simply not continue with Zeta production after the current cars wind down. The current cars will run another 5 years... plenty of time to build up replacements on Alpha or even Alpha 2.
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It will be interesting to see what GM does with Alpha going forward, outside of Cadillac. I assume the next Camaro. I do wonder if there is room in Chevy's lineup of vanilla FWD appliances for a RWD sports sedan, though. Could be a Buick RWD coupe as well, I'd expect it to wear the Riviera badge. It would be a nice high end companion to a Verano convertible, Opel Cascada, that is highly likely coming here. The SS, if it survives, would likely be rebuilt on Alfa. As the middle east really likes the RWD Caprice/Lumina and they sell the Caprice PPV here, I put the chance of the SS surviving at about 50%.
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The Alpha platform is now better. The CTS is the size of the G8 now and much much lighter. Even with all the Cadillac fluff adding to the heft, it's a good 200 - 300 lbs lighter. Comparing V6 to V6
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The Other Shoe Drops: Holden Ceases Manufacturing In 2017
Drew Dowdell replied to William Maley's topic in Heritage Marques
Sorry guys, two of you made comments but they got wiped out due to a software configuration issue I had to fix in the Holden category. Feel free to re-post them. -
Let's not thread jack too much.
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She started at GM at 18, building engines on the Iron Duke line..... she knows how to get her hands dirty... She's much more a "Car Gal" than Akerson ever was a "Car Guy" (though that isn't hard, since he was zero Car Guy)
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Welcome back Tyran. I think there is a lot of armchair judging of the car going on. No one here has driving it yet... and I'm betting I'm one of only 2 here that have actually even sat in it.
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Sales: Notes From The Numbers - Luxury Edition
Drew Dowdell replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in 2013 Sales Archive
Cadillac has 8-speeds in the CTS. And they have that FWD 7-speed DCT GM filed a patent for -
The biggest evidence that not all at Ford is what it appears to be: The failure to do anything with Lincoln. The Government will get far more back than that loss in the long run via income taxes from employees of a living GM, its dealerships, its suppliers, and so on. Had we let GM fail, the loss to the taxpayers and throughout the economy would have been far greater than $10 billion.
