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DETROIT, April 13 (UPI) -- The General Motors Corp. says it is developing a new rear-wheel-drive platform that might result in a vehicle similar to the old Chevrolet Camaro.
"We're going to take another look at high performance rear-wheel drive," GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said during the Society of Automotive Engineers' 2005 World Congress.
GM had suspended plans for a rear-wheel-drive platform code-named Zeta in March due to uncompetitive costs. But Jim Queen, GM vice president of global engineering, told the Detroit News the company has been working on a more cost-effective rear-wheel-drive platform that could result in a Camaro-like vehicle.
"There's a Camaro hook in all of us," Queen said. "It may not be a Camaro, but there's a lot of us inside our company and outside our company that feel very passionate about it."
Queen said the platform could be derived from Zeta or the Sigma rear-wheel-drive architecture used by Cadillac's rear-wheel-drive sedans.
"It's going to be something I sort of call Zeta-light," Lutz said.
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