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Re: K2XX and B-Platform

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Grawdaddy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4

Specialized 2-door anythings are dead unless you’re willing to pay a huge premium (Camaro/CTS) or have them sold alongside conventional cars at a loss (G6 sedan vs G6 coupe).

The B-bodies were crap and have been fully supplanted by Zeta. Body on frame construction is wholly inferior to unibody and the B’s are unable to meet today’s safety and rigidity requirments. Doing so would cost millions and millions to re-engineer them to do so. Also, the demographics have changed and there are no people who want to buy them and pay for their poor fuel economy.

You can hope/wish/pray all you like. You’re powerless and at the mercy of cold, eyeless numbers on a balance sheet that ultimately decide whether your automotive wishes come true or not.

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