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Carsales Staff11 Aug 2006
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GM confirms VE-based Camaro

The Camaro that rocked this year's Detroit motor show is going into production. And it will be built on Australian-developed VE Commodore architecture.

GM has confirmed that it will build the scene-stealing Camaro it showed in concept form at this year’s Detroit motor show – and that its new muscle car flagship will be built on Holden’s VE Commodore platform.

As you’ll see, we’ve published both GM’s official announcement and the revealing blog by GM’s vice chairman and resident icon, Bob Lutz on the GM Fastlane and FYI blogs.

“It will be a sensational chassis, a variant of our all-new global rear-drive architecture engineered in Australia, our center of large RWD expertise. (Design work will be done in the U.S., making Camaro a product of our now truly global product development organization.),” Lutz says in part.

To read more on the Wheels magazine website, click

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