when did the "w-body" come to be?

[92GSCoupe]

o.k. so does the w body term include models before 1997 or is that the true starting year?

[Jonpro03]

1988 is the first year for the W-body. Started with the 1988 Grand Prix, Cutlass and Regal I think...

[AL]

1997 started the second generation wbodies and 2004 started the 3rd... In 1995, they had the 1.5 gen Monte Carlo and Lumina

[urbex]

It was designed in the early 80's under Roger Smith

[dodgethis]

It was designed in the early 80's under Roger Smith

..........yea Mr. Rogers.......Wont you be my Neighbor?

[Breakdown]

o.k. so does the w body term include models before 1997 or is that the true starting year?

Short answer 1988.

Long answer 1982.

Just go to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM10

I love their plans of making 750,000 W-bodies per year at three plants each producing a quarter-million of these cars.

[RobertISaar]

I love their plans of making 750,000 W-bodies per year at three plants each producing a quarter-million of these cars.

depending on the year, those goals were met, at least the 1Ws did at Oshawa.

[urbex]

..........yea Mr. Rogers.......Wont you be my Neighbor?

Yeah...the man who destroyed Flint...

[Breakdown]

depending on the year, those goals were met, at least the 1Ws did at Oshawa.

I don't think that they ever sold 750,000 W's in a year. I was talking to BGA on the phone and looked and there's some years that the Taurus alone > Lumina, Cutlass Supreme, Regal, Grand Prix together in sales.

[RobertISaar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Lumina

1990 was over 330K
1991 was ~190K
1992 was ~220K
1993 was ~230K
1994 was ~85K

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrol...fth_generation

when combined with the MC

1995 was ~365K
1996 was ~300K
1997 was ~300K
1998 was ~290K
1999 was ~210K



i'd say GM did pretty well... at least with the Chevrolet Ws

[ScoobyDoo82]

For those who didnt know, there were plans on producing a station wagon variant of each car... but with the sedans so far behind they shelved the idea. Call me crazy, but I would have liked to see what the Grand Prix station wagon would have looked like :P

[RobertISaar]

it sounds as exciting as this looks.

sincere apoligies to anyone if this was their photo.

i even gave it the benefit of the doubt and made it a TWTE, gave it teh louvers and a spoiler, and even a half-assed version of the B4U kit.

[ScoobyDoo82]

my crack at it...

[94 olds vert]

Robert, I like your idea, but I think a TGP with a 50s Chevy Nomad twist would of been awesome. Spencer yours isn't half bad.

[RobertISaar]

notice the two very different approaches here...

i think it would have been a horrible idea and rendered my pic via mspaint.

it looks like Spence copy/pasta'd the back half of a lumina APV onto the GP and it looks somewhat believable.

IMO: GM didn't do it for at least one very good reason: A-body wagons.