Chevy kills off Monte Carlo
03-01-2007, 09:16 AM
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Chevy kills off Monte Carlo
A member of the GM Inside News forum posted today that he received an email from General Motors announcing the end of the Monte Carlo. We rang up the General for confirmation and received word that the Monte Carlo is indeed being offed. May 4th will reportedly be the last day you can order a Monte Carlo and production of the car at GM's Oshawa plant in Canada will cease on June 20th. Apparently production of the Monte Carlo is being cancelled to make room for all those extra Malibu orders the automaker is expecting when the new 2008 model sedan begins production in October. This is the sixth generation Monte Carlo, and when asked if we'd see the name return on a new model in the near future, we got the canned answer from GM, "We do not comment on future product." Sigh. Monte Carlo sales were off 64.2% in January of 2007 with only 1,639 units being sold. In 2006, 34,113 units were sold, a slight improvement over 2005.
NO surprise here....
03-01-2007, 09:27 AM
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couldn't have happened to a better car.
chopping two doors off a big car doesn't make it sporty. Especially when its ugly. This is a prime example of what GM doesn't want to be. They should make a big statue to this POS and make sure every has to walk by it as a reminder of what almost killed the company.
chopping two doors off a big car doesn't make it sporty. Especially when its ugly. This is a prime example of what GM doesn't want to be. They should make a big statue to this POS and make sure every has to walk by it as a reminder of what almost killed the company.
03-01-2007, 09:59 AM
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He's as bad as Can
IMO GM killed it back in 1987 when they converted the successful rear wheel drive Monte Carlo, Regal, Cutlass Supreme, and Grand Prix to very ugly FWD cars.
03-01-2007, 11:31 AM
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I had the misfortune of driving this P.O.S. on a company trip once. I felt bad making my company pay for such a lousy car!
03-01-2007, 11:40 AM
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Yeah, all joking aside the last gen Monte Carlo is actually a pretty decent sedan. Obviously it hasn't always been that way because everyone thinks it still sucks.
03-03-2007, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by snizzle
Yeah, all joking aside the last gen Monte Carlo is actually a pretty decent sedan. Obviously it hasn't always been that way because everyone thinks it still sucks.
03-05-2007, 06:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Transam kid 01
Its a coupe, not a sedan...well was
03-05-2007, 04:22 PM
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Whoohooo.. its dead its finally dead!!!
Now resurect it in a few years as a Rwd beast and everyone will be happy. I have a friend with a 85 cutlass and yeah that thing was a beast and a half (had a Cadi 550 motor squeezed inside) and she also drove Monte's, those were cars if well maintained.
Guess the Nascar fans are going to be buying Impala SS's now.
Now resurect it in a few years as a Rwd beast and everyone will be happy. I have a friend with a 85 cutlass and yeah that thing was a beast and a half (had a Cadi 550 motor squeezed inside) and she also drove Monte's, those were cars if well maintained.
Guess the Nascar fans are going to be buying Impala SS's now.
03-05-2007, 04:40 PM
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Bummed, but bring on OU!
More progress. I'm not even sure that they'll replace it anytime soon. I see the G8 (rebadged) maybe bumping the Impala out of the line up. A nice looking, rwd V8 Impala + one less car (MC) on the production lines = a good move for GM. Hopefully it'll work out that way.
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