On Tue, June 30, 2020 6:28 am, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > What is the Chevy equivalent of the larger Buicks? Do they share a > platform? I had a late 90s Malibu as a company car for a bit, and it was > pretty small. I'm not familiar with the Impala, guess I need to have a > look.
Those 90s Malibus had their own bodies on the N platform (Achieva/Grand Am). My mom had one, my cousin's future son in law drove a 4 door Cavalier. One time I took Mom's Malibu (actually a Classic) to my cousin's shop, the kid's fiance came over, and I tried to get my car parts out of the trunk of his Cavalier. The Impala was a RWD on the Caprice platform for a while, then it became (and still is) Chevy's biggest FWD sedan. There was a squad car version of the first generation, but the Crown Vic killed it in the marketplace, before the Explorer/Tahoe/etc killed the sedans. I don't know if the FWD Impala ever had a pushrod engine. One of my clients used to do delivery work in a first gen FWD, I think it had a 3.5 engine. He put a junkyard engine in it at around 250k, and swapped junkyard engines when they hit about 200-300k. I think it had over 400k on the chassis when he quit driving it. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
