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Post by bot on Sept 2, 2006 21:38:27 GMT -8
Chevy Camaro a Go for 2008 - Car News Updated: GM’s Chevrolet division can’t sit idle as the retro Ford Mustang gobbles up sales, so it’s frantically readying its own muscle car for sale in early 2009. BY JARED GALL, August 2006 read source: www.caranddriver.com/carnews/11429/chevy-camaro-a-go-for-2008.htmlWe knew it all along, but now the news is official: Chevrolet’s answer to the original pony-car salvo is being reloaded and will go into production as early as 2008. It’ll be aimed at showrooms in 2009. The official announcement came from GM Chairman Rick Wagoner in Traverse City, Michigan. The car will be built on GM’s revived Zeta platform, originally intended for a series of full-size rear-wheel-drive cars but shelved last year after being deemed too expensive. This platform features an independent rear suspension, unlike the Ford Mustang. Both manual and automatic transmissions will be offered, and power for the resurrected Camaro will come from a base V-6 and two V-8s. We hope one of them will bear the letters LS and a whole number greater than 6; Chevy’s current top production engine is the 505-hp LS7 found in the Corvette Z06. No word yet on exactly where the car will be built—official word is “North America”—but speculation is that GM’s plants in Oshawa, Ontario or Wilmington, Delaware, are strong possibilities.
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