GM Rear Wheel Drives may be coming back for the Impala, Grand Prix, and
the Buick I believe the Century within the next 2-3 years.
"Allendorfer, Mike" wrote:
>
> Actually, they do expect the cars to be able to crash up and down curbs w/o
> falling aart. In fact, Chevy upgraded the balljoints on the 96 Caprice to
> 5/8" ball joints from the original 9/16" just because they were failing on
> the earlier models. The mfg's also put in the stiff springs, shocks and
> anti-roll bars required to make them at least go around a smooth corner. In
> fact, for years the hot ticket for street handling from a detroit car was to
> order as much of the police package as you could to get the best cooling,
> charging and suspension packages w/o going to the trailer package. Sadly,
> w/ GM's withdrawal from the rear drive, body on frame police car market,
> Ford had it all to themselves and subsequently raised the State Contract
> price from aobut $14K to $21K. Boo!
> Mike
> 96 Taxi (Impala SS)
> drive a CV at work
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: J C <veloimpreza@yahoo.com>
> To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:35 AM
> Subject: Re: My first ride in a police car!
> >
> > Row, row, row your car gently down the road! For such
> > a porky car I'm surprised it didn't have more body
> > roll than it did. I'm sure they do a number of mods to
> > their vehicles though. I doubt the stock suspension is
> > designed to be able to drive over curbs.
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Kenneth Allan Mitchell
mailto:nokones@kenmitchell.com
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