Now, the wind has changed direction (greater domestic quality, EV transition), yet the Big Three are caught with their pants down for the second time!!Stick with what you know: the Western Hemisphere and Europe SUVs & pickups develop EVs for the everyman like you did with ICE vehicles in the 1920's & 30's and fight for market share. The response was to dump Mercury, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Holden, & Saab due to diminished market share.As part of Plan B, The Big Three raced to China to grab an exploding market with American cachet. 3SpeedAutomatic Reminds me of the 80's when the Japanese kicked the Big Three and the 90's when the Koreans gobbled up the inexpensive market.With a five-speed manual, it has just 17,000 miles and has been in the same collection for the past 28 years. Today’s Rare Ride is in spectacular condition and goes up for auction tomorrow. The Lumina Z34 faded away after that year and was replaced by the aforementioned Monte Carlo Z34 in 1995. At the end of the Lumina’s first generation in 1994, over a million had been sold. Around 278,000 of those were sedans, and nearly 46,000 coupes. The Lumina was immediately successful, and in 1990 racked up over 300,000 sales.
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Inside, drivers grabbed a three-spoke sports wheel and sat on overstuffed bucket seats. Paint colors were limited: red, blue, white, black, silver, and gray. Outside, the Z34 showed its sporting intent via different fascias front and rear, lower side skirts, louvers in various places, and a spoiler.
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Z34 sported 200 horsepower, which meant a 0 to 60 time of just 7.2 seconds with a manual transmission, and a top speed of 130 miles per hour. Even in automatic guise, the shifter was floor-mounted, in contrast to more common Lumina trims. The automatic was optional on Z34 and usually selected. Standard was a dual exhaust and four-wheel ABS, as well as a five-speed manual. The Z34 trim was offered only on the coupe, and was always fitted with an FE3 sports suspension package, and used the largest 3.4-liter engine shared with the Euro trim sedan. Newly available for 1991 was a high-performance Lumina variant, the Z34. Transmissions were three- and four-speed GM automatics, or the rarely chosen five-speed manual from Getrag. A 2.2-liter I4 was available only in 1993, while the 2.5-liter Iron Duke from the Celebrity was available from 1990 to 1992. The APV was a replacement for the Celebrity wagon GM saw the Nineties writing on the wall as wagon sales entered a nosedive.įirst-gen Luminas were available with inline-four or V6 engines. The Lumina name also extended to a minivan – the APV – which was the Cadillac of Minivans when it donned Oldsmobile Silhouette costumery.
In that guise, Monte Carlo was not as much its own design, but more a new Lumina coupe. Monte Carlo was reintroduced for the ’95 model year, which coincided with Lumina’s second W-body generation.
Monte’s sporty customers chose the two-door coupe, while Celebrity types opted for the four-door sedan. Lumina also absorbed the market share of Chevy’s Monte Carlo, which saw its last model year in 1988. But the Lumina was no single-car replacement at GM there was a larger plan at work.
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