Instead of Mid-engined 'Vette, Expect a New Malibu in 2016
Next year for General Motors could be defined by a new lower, longer Spark, production starting on the Bolt and a convertible Camaro, according to Automotive News’ facts and factoids department.
The automotive publication posted a speculative timeline of cars that may or may not be in GM’s future, including fuzzy details on a mid-engined Corvette that may or may not happen in or around the year 2020.
In case you’re wondering, we don’t know either.
The timeline includes tantalizing details that GMC may be looking at adapting the Chevrolet Trax — which could be called the “GMC Granite” — and that the Colorado/Canyon may finally get an off-road ZR2 edition next year.
The story also summarizes their earlier claim that GM will be shrinking the Equinox and offering a new, mid-size crossover based on the current Traverse. Cadillac wasn’t included in their analysis, but the automotive publication spelled the death for the Chevrolet SS. We can’t have nice things.
A redesigned Malibu will see the light of day next year, and the curtain may fall on the Spark EV.
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Gm updates on ttac are interesting in a very similar way to the vw ones. Commenters appear who are very knowledgeable about the brand, exact chassis designation, trim level accuracy and drive train knowledge are a given. But then they usually share airtime with a large number of others who are either ideologically opposed to, our were burned in their formative years by, either company.
Chevy ought to build the mid-engine Vette as a halo supercar, call it Zora but keep the current Vette in production and design a C8 version.
I think it was Peter DeLorenzo of Autoextremist who suggested making Corvette a separate brand with a family of models ala Porsche. The more I think about it, the more I think it's a really interesting idea. Although I'm still not sure I can wrap my head around a Corvette C/SUVSUV, which would be inevitable.
Chev advertisements are starting to take a page from Hyundai, people interviewed are like "wow, I can't believe this is a Chevy". To me they're starting to look like good cars, and it's unfortunate that the bowtie removes ten thousand dollars in the vehicle's worth.