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March 13, 2012
By: Nick Saporito
Chevrolet announced that the brand will be showcasing an all-new racecar during the 2013 NASCAR season. The new car will be replacing the Impala, which has been Chevy’s NASCAR racer for many years. While that in itself is a sizable announcement, the rest of the story is even more interesting. Chevrolet states the new NASCAR will have a production sister car under an entirely new nameplate.
Now, we at GMI do not like to speculate, but for months we’ve been reporting that GM has plans to bring the Holden Commodore back to North America under the Chevrolet brand. The latest information we’ve gotten suggests Chevrolet will bring the Commodore back to North America as a high-performance Chevrolet sedan. The car will be very low volume and likely V-8 only.
At last report, this sedan was slated to launch in spring 2013, which happens to correlate with Chevrolet’s stated scheduled release date for the new production car and corresponding NASCAR racer.
The timing also aligns with Holden’s scheduled update to the Commodore for 2013. The revamp is said to include revised styling inside and out, better aerodynamics and an overall design theme that fits better with new Holden’s (thus Chevrolet as well).
It’s very possible we’re entirely off base here, but needless to say, today’s press release is foreshadowing a new product for Chevrolet. It just so happens that we at GMI know Chevrolet’s future product portfolio really well and the only one that seems to fit this mold is the supposed Commodore import.
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