[McCall]

GM pulls plug on '08 line of cars - Product czar Bob Lutz wants to
speed new trucks, SUVs to market faster.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0.../A01-123402.htm

If the Zeta program is dead, that means the new Camaro/GTO is pretty much dead. Boy those guys at GM are idiots....

McCall

[sgarnett]

On fastlane.gmblogs.com Bob posted a follow up to today's the news.

Zeta Not the End of RWD Performance
By Bob Lutz
GM Vice Chairman
...
We did not cancel the Zeta plans to save money, or to divert funds elsewhere that would've been used for product development.

We are simply reallocating resources (human and financial) to pull some other programs ahead and get other vehicles to market sooner.
...

We didn't divert funds, we just reallocated resources. Hmmm (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Somehow, when I read premium, affordable, high performance, and nostalgia in the same sentence I have trouble reconciling them.

Somehow, I read that as somewhere between an SSR, the new (well, not so new now) T-Bird, and a forced-induction PT Cruiser.

Somehow, I read affordable premium as $40K, not low $20Ks like a minimalist Z28.

Somehow, I read nostalgic performance as a detuned, iron block, 5.3.

Somehow, I read nostalgia baked in as half-baked.