More GM Vaporware?
Vaporware is a computer term for great promises of great product that NEVER arrive. Most General Motors press releases about their future products amount to vaporware. GM would make a good magician with their now you see it...or wait you never really saw it did you approach.
So forgive me in my cynicism if the great General has announced future products with Zeta, their low cost rear wheel drive platform, to provide Chevy, Pontiac, and Buick with new impressive large rear drive vehicles. Zeta is coming, no wait a minute Zeta is going as I told you in March. Why is Zeta important to you? Affordable and high quality rear drive cars are rare. The best handling vehicles are rear wheel drive (RWD) due to a superior weight distribution. The proper image of certain vehicle types is considered RWD i.e. the best luxury sedans are RWD. That image has a trickle down effect. Also if you wish to tow a moderately heavy load and not require a SUV or pickup truck then a RWD car is the only way to go. Minivans don't tow jack! Therefore Zeta, and RWD in general, is important for some aesthetic and technical reasons.
Zeta will, in theory, provide a replacement Pontiac GTO, a reborn Chevy Camaro to fight the supremely popular Ford Mustang, and proper large sedans for Chevy, Pontiac, and Buick in the United States. The Australian Holden division will get the new products first in mid-2006 since Holden was already doing most of the work on Zeta in the first place. From there GM will import vehicles into China under the Buick label (why are Chinese Buicks more interesting than American ones?). By 2008 or 2009 the first Zeta product will be produced in at least one factory and possibly imported as well into the North America market.
Okay GM, you put Zeta on the back burner for six months to pull forward your new class of SUVs, let's see you make something worthy of the Impala SS name! If you make another boring
posted by Brian D. @ 9:30 AM
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