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 GM cancels V-8 program for luxury cars
DETROIT -- General Motors has canceled plans to build a new advanced double overhead-cam V-8 for its luxury cars.
The move means the future for Cadillac’s V-8 car engines is unclear.
In January 2007, GM said it would invest $300 million in its Tonawanda, N.Y., engine plant for the new V-8 engine, which was scheduled to start production in 2009 and be used in luxury cars.
GM Powertrain spokesman Tom Read said Thursday that the project is dead. That engine likely would have replaced Cadillac’s long-running Northstar V-8, which is scheduled to end production in 2010.
Cadillac could switch to high-powered V-6s in its cars, except for the Corvette-based XLR.
The new direct-injected V-6 in the 2008 CTS develops 304 hp, while the current Northstar V-8 makes 275 hp in the 2008 DTS.
Cadillac spokesman Kevin Smith said, “We’ve really seen the V-6 become the predominant engine in sales on the (2008) STS because it’s so close in power to the V-8.”
He added that the V-6 is about 150 to 200 pounds lighter.
The cancellation of the new V-8 comes just days after President Bush signed into law new fuel economy standards that call for a 40 percent fuel economy improvement by 2020. The new standards start phasing in in 2011.
The Tonawanda plant still gets at least one new engine, an all-new 4.5-liter diesel V-8 engine that starts production in 2010. That engine, GM said earlier, will be used in light pickups and SUVs. |
| 03.01.2008 at 21:33 |
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 GM cancels V-8 program for luxury cars
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| 03.01.2008 at 22:26 |
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Koit
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GM cancels V-8 program for luxury cars
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| 03.01.2008 at 23:50 |
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GM cancels V-8 program for luxury cars
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| 04.01.2008 at 07:38 |
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GM cancels V-8 program for luxury cars
NEW DELHI -- Tata delivered on Ratan Tata's pledge for a one lakh ($2,500) car today with its long-awaited Nano minicar, aimed at the gap between motorcycles and conventional minicars.
" A promise is a promise," Ratan Tata said at the unveiling here.
The no-frills four-door 33hp car seats up to five passengers and is powered by a 624cc, two-cylinder gasoline engine and a continuously variable transmission. It uses 5 liters per 100 kilometers and meets local crash test and emissions guidelines. It is also designed to pass international side offset and side crash tests as well as Euro 4.
It is 8 percent shorter than the Maruti Suzuki 800 but has 21 percent more passenger space. |
| 10.01.2008 at 13:07 |
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