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Originally Posted by Dragoneye
"LWB"?
I know you've got your paws in the GM Insider site...is the Alpha development officially (or "probably") back on track for 2012-2013? Last I heard it was due by the end of the decade...hopefully I'm wrong?
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Long Wheelbase Alpha.
We have no idea what the hell is going on with Alpha right now...it's supposedly a stronger, lighter version of Zeta...
From what we've heard, the current W-body Impala is going to soldier on until 2013...at which point, it will go on hiatus until 2015 or 2016, then a brand-new Impala will be introduced on a LWB version of the Alpha RWD platform.
Now, another rumor that's been flying around lately is that there's plans for the VF Commodore (current G8 = VE Commodore) to be brought stateside as something...unfortunately, we haven't gotten any form of confirmation about that yet.
So when Henderson keeps saying "No" to rebadging the G8 to another division, it may mean that GM is attempting to get rid of every remaining G8. This way, there's no actual "rebadging" going on if the VE Commodore is sent to Chevy.
Really, nobody knows what's going on right now...