GM annouced in the UAW/GM national agreement that lordstown will no longer make the cobalt and g5 after 2009 but have secured a new product

 

Please be a RWD compact. Honda and all of them are doing it soon.

 

yay for a 3 year LSJ run and 5 year product line up and end. Kind of reminds me of some of the other GM products that had a claim to fame and then died. They didn't take long to kill the Cobalt but 20 years for the Cavailer!

 

I read on here they wont be made at lordstown anymore but instead will be made in mexico or somewhere around there. Someone correct me if im wrong.

 

^^^ I heard the same speculation as well. GM would be stupid for cutting the Cobalt.

 

^^^heard the same thing gm is stupid if it does kill the balt

 

Lordstown is secured for the next 5 years to be the production site for GM's next small car.

 

http://cheersandgears.com/forums/ind...howtopic=20133 <<----Heres what they will be making. Hints of a Rwd cobalt hmmmmmmmmm tasty. It also says lordstown will produce the NG cobalt as well.

 

lorsdtown is slated to get two differnet models Global Gamma 4door, and global alpha (concept names i guess) and that rolls out in 2010

 

the balts goin to mexico

 

sounds like the cobalt's being replaced by a new compact car

 

make it small, rear drive and call it the Chevy III Nova

 

they should hire me...ill make them a turboed coupe with RWD and 6spd or 5spd gear box and keep it under 22g

 

I bet they can take any help they can get. At this rate, this might be the last tuner car they ever produce!

 

That small car for Lordstown is a RWD small chassis based off the Kappa chassis . Its called Alpha . There small RWD sedans and in no way shape or form a replacement for the Cobalt . They are intended for lower volume In the US , Cadillac and Pontiac will have one . Throughout the world , Holden will have one and Vauxhall may as well . And oddly it looks like Lordtown will be a flex plant , because Gamma is listed to go there too . Gamma=Aveo

The next gen Cobalt will not be built in the US , therfore no info about it in the contract papers

 

http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/09...e-of-the-volt/ Cobalt Mention here

They want to continue the build of the future cobalt replacements.

 

Odds are the "new" product will be based off of the Saturn Astra. It's a great platform... and with some power will perform nicely.

The G5 does need to go... it's nothing but a copycat car... I have heard that Pontiac wants to go to all RWD performance cars... which is good.

I don't agree with killing off the Cobalt name though.

 

WHAT IF.... its the volt?

 

ALPHA BABY! BRING IT ON!!!! ALPHA is gunna be small RWD! Lets Git Er DONE!!!

 

i just threw up at the "Git Er DONE" part

 

nice! cobalt s are gonna be rare cars!!!

 

That was the how it was being told before the UAW contract wrongy layed out GM plans for the next 5 years , and partly may ring true unofficially official . LOTS and LOTS of stuff in that plant schedule was not supposed to be known ...and if u read it further theres hidden info all over it . Lordtown will shift to the Alpha RWD and Gamma( Aveo and ???????? ) when the current Cobalt/G5 ends in 2009MY and those 2 have nothing to do with the Cobalt currently , but ( explain the but later ) . It will , on the surface , most obviously effect the G5 , as Pontiac is getting the small RWD sedan . Its not a replacement for the G5 , but rather a repositioning of the brand , as a niche brand . So dont expect G5 like pricing . The G6 ends production in 2013 and theres no scheduled replacement for it . That will leave the Vibe as the only FWD Pontiac .

And the stuff that wasnt supposed to publically be known yet and should clear up a little mystery about why so much has been said in the media about the Cobalt name dying without an explaination as to why . According to the Union contract , we are gonna lose the Delta chassis as far as the Cobalt is concerned . Going off info in those union papers , the Cobalt will be on the Gamma chassis which currently underpins the Aveo . The Cobalt name will be retained . The next gen Gamma chassis is said to be larger than the current Delta the Cobalts on . Interpret that as you wish , I have no info on the next gen balt . I can say factually say though , in all the info about Delta 2 chassis thats known , the only 2 cars being mentioned are the Astra and the Saab 9-1 . The Delta 2 is more upscale , is engineered for hybrid powerplants from the start and is said to be AWD capable .

To the comment about the Volt . Like the Prius , it is its own model with no association to the Cobalt .

Many things changin BIG time .

Cobalts on a Delta chassis are anyways .

Ok , enuff greek names

 

the use of all the gamma and alpha words makes me want them to make the omega ................. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh