{"id":2243,"date":"2021-01-10T00:42:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2021-01-10T20:05:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T20:05:57","slug":"cafe-takes-another-bite-out-of-gm-product-plan-as-rwd-programs-fall-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=2243","title":{"rendered":"CAFE takes another bite out of GM product plan as RWD programs fall away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago the Zeta rear-wheel-drive architecture developed at General Motors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/holden\/\">Holden<\/a> division in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/australia\/\">Australia<\/a> looked set to spawn a host of new North American models. The platform that under-pins the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/pontiac\/g8\/\">Pontiac G8<\/a> and the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/chevrolet\/camaro\/\">Chevrolet Camaro<\/a> now looks like it will have much more limited application. The next generation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/chevrolet\/impala\/\">Chevy Impala<\/a> was due to be built on this platform alongside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/chevrolet\/camaro\/\">Camaro<\/a> but now will likely stay on an updated version of the current front-wheel-drive chassis.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the company needs to move aggressively to meet new 35mpg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/fuel+economy\/\">fuel economy<\/a> standards will likely mean that higher-volume applications like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/chevrolet\/impala\/\">Impala<\/a> go to smaller, lighter platforms instead. The fate of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/rumormill\/\">rumored<\/a> Alpha compact rear-drive platform is still up in the air at this point. Whether a new Zeta-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/pontiac\/gto\/\">Pontiac GTO<\/a> ever sees the light of day is unknown as well. The 2.9L <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/cadillac\/\">Cadillac<\/a> turbodiesel V-6 mated with the two-mode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/hybrid\/\">hybrid<\/a> system would probably get a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/pontiac\/gto\/\">GTO<\/a> or Impala in the ballpark of 35mpg. However, that combination would probably be too expensive to get the desired volumes on the Impala and might not appeal to prospective GTO buyers.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: GoAuto via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/01\/20\/due-to-cafe-lutz-declares-rwd-impala-and-monaro-dead\/\">Autoblog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/01\/20\/cafe-takes-another-bite-out-of-gm-product-plan-as-rwd-programs-f\/<\/p>\n<p>2008-01-20T19:55:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago the Zeta rear-wheel-drive architecture developed at General Motors Holden division in Australia looked set to spawn a host of new North American models. The platform that under-pins the new Pontiac G8 and the upcoming Chevrolet Camaro now\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13206,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/13206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}