ZL-1

You're right, those two won't ever have the same image or appeal: totally different DNAs

rock

jockey

Perhaps they'll keep selling rebadged Chevrolets as Pontiacs in both Canada and Mexico.

I agree on those two.

kangaroo

I remember, I remember. :AH-HA_wink:

Maybe I'm in a religious mood today, but this quote feels appropriate if indeed GM is working on having a small and a large RWD/AWD platform in the pipeline: Revelation 22:13

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Chopped Audi R8?

I'm expecting nothing short of a 5-star EuroNCAP Adult rating, but I wonder how it will do on the Child and Pedestrian ratings. For exmple, the Fiat 500 got 5-stars Adult, 3-stars Child (scale ranges between 1 and 5 stars), and 2-stars Pedestrian (scale ranges between 1 and 4 stars).

The links are in Swedish (sorry), but Swedish Auto Motor & Sport reports that the NG Saab 9-3 can be delayed until 2012 and also that it might change its platform to DeltaII instead of sitting on EpsilonII. Given that the size stats on that LaCrosse mule spotted in Sweden (IIRC not that much longer than the Insignia), I'd expect the NG 9-5 to be around 4850mm in length. Why then have an EpsilonII 9-3 if you can use the DeltaII platform, which I assume is AWD compatible, to produce a NG 9-3 range consisting of Sedan/Wagon, but also with a family of 3-door and 5-door hatches, to return some quirkyness to Saab? For comparison purposes, Astras range from around 4.2m to 4.6m in lenght, and that would be an interesting range for Saab to explore. Discuss!

I knew someone would remeber the f-word truck

So it works as a system where OEMs are rewarded if they introduce new more fuel efficient cars, but also if they continously increase efficiency on current models: an incentive to incremental/evolutionary changes instead of 'reinventing the wheel'?

Yeah, I agree. What I'd like to read about next is the gossip/power-struggle side of this: Who gets to develop this SigmaII/ZetaII thing? Will Cadillac and Holden collaborate, or will one of them get this and/or the Alpha development?

thegriffon: wouldn't it make more sense if targets were defined in terms of weight rather than footprint? I believe the Japanese system sets average fuel economy targets for different vehicles based on weight with various weight segments and allowance for credits and trading between those segments.

From the ever-interesting Autoblog website: GM RWD Update: FWD Impala remains, Zeta to merge with Sigma Enjoy and discuss!

Better looking than that new Laguna

Will do Response to thread: puck

Out of pure curiosity: did you like it despite 'ignoring Volvo news items'?

Boo! I have family working for Pepsico, so I'll be booing Coca-Cola. Also, believe it or not, 'Boo' is the name of one of the suburbs of Stockholm.

Pepsico

That would be the new model on the Gamma platform, right?

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