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GM C platform, also known as the C-Body, was a front wheel drive (FWD) automobile platform used by General Motors' Cadillac, Buick and Oldsmobile divisions for their full-sized automobiles from 1985 through 1996, sharing unibody construction, transverse engine configuration, rack and pinion steering and four-wheel independent suspension.
The following is a complete episode list [1] of 2000s and 2010s US television documentary series Chasing Classic Cars starring Wayne Carini, who finds and chases classic cars from all eras, with the option of restoration and a likely sale. [2] [3]
Chasing Classic Cars is a US television documentary series presented by Wayne Carini [1] of F-40 Motorsports [2] and produced by Clint Stinchcomb. [3] It looks at classic cars from all eras, focusing on finding and getting cars running, with the option of restoration and a likely sale.
The full-sized C-body Dodge and Plymouth lines were dropped for 1978, in part because they were finding few customers outside the fleet market (the C-body Chryslers lasted one more year). At this point, the mid-sized B-body Monaco and Fury were left as Chrysler's largest cars, but an outdated design that could not compete with GM and also by ...
The last car produced on the W platform was the ninth generation of the Chevrolet Impala, which was replaced by the Epsilon-based tenth-generation Impala, beginning in model year 2014. GM continued to produce the W-body Impala to fleet customers only under the name Impala Limited until production ended in May 2016.
The 1970s H-body was rear-wheel drive and used for the compact Chevrolet Vega and Monza, and their Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac derivatives. The 1980s H-body was a front-wheel drive full-size car platform, was essentially identical to the C-body platform, sharing wheelbase, most body panels and glass, as well as engines.
The openly contentious back and forth, not only damaged the reputation of the X cars, but General Motors itself — with Hagerty (Insurance), specialist in classic cars, noting that the X-car was "one of the malaziest cars" of the Malaise era, doing enormous damage to GM's reputation [7] and playing a role in "the sharpest decrease in American ...
For 1982, the H-body vehicles were replaced by the front-wheel drive J-body; while again shrinking in length, the interiors of the J-body vehicles grew in size, becoming compact-segment vehicles. From 1986 to 1999, the H platform designation was revived for front-wheel drive full-size sedans of the Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac divisions.