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08-15-2005, 10:30 AM
From todays DealerEdge.com
GM plots return to rear-wheel-drive cars
Despite earlier reports of its demise, the "Zeta" program is apparently still alive at General Motors.
GM is developing a new family of large, rear-wheel-drive cars in a multibillion-dollar program key to the company's success worldwide, according to a report in the Detroit Free Press.
The lineup could include a revival of the revered Chevrolet Camaro coupe toward the end of this decade.
The first of these big new cars will go on sale in mid-2006 as the Holden VE Commodore sedan in Australia. But Buick, Chevrolet and Pontiac are all to get powerful new sedans that are larger than anything they sell today when production begins in the United States in about three years.
GM's new Zeta family of cars will use a wide variety of drive trains in markets around the world, but U.S. versions are likely to come with V8 and V6 engines and five- or six-speed automatic transmissions. Some regions will also get all-wheel-drive models.
GM plots return to rear-wheel-drive cars
Despite earlier reports of its demise, the "Zeta" program is apparently still alive at General Motors.
GM is developing a new family of large, rear-wheel-drive cars in a multibillion-dollar program key to the company's success worldwide, according to a report in the Detroit Free Press.
The lineup could include a revival of the revered Chevrolet Camaro coupe toward the end of this decade.
The first of these big new cars will go on sale in mid-2006 as the Holden VE Commodore sedan in Australia. But Buick, Chevrolet and Pontiac are all to get powerful new sedans that are larger than anything they sell today when production begins in the United States in about three years.
GM's new Zeta family of cars will use a wide variety of drive trains in markets around the world, but U.S. versions are likely to come with V8 and V6 engines and five- or six-speed automatic transmissions. Some regions will also get all-wheel-drive models.